Matt Haughey wrote recently about the point at which he lost all respect for Bill Gates. The issue turns out to be Gates' position on the legalities surrounding personal online publishing, which he he equates as being equal to print media. There are all sorts of open-ended questions here, and I don't think [...]
Digital Rights and Wrongs
January 9th, 2005 · No Comments
Tags: · Computers, Freedom, Information Security, Internet, Media, Movies, Music, Privacy, Security, Software, Technology, Television
$expressionsgiven==0
November 30th, 2004 · 2 Comments
This may be revealing way too much of my geeky tendencies, but this syntactically-correct Perl version of a classic Neil tune is too good to ignore:
$live="Want to"; $give="Want to";
$miner="yes";
if ($expressionsgiven==0) {
keep_searching;
}
$beentohollywood="yes";
$beetoredwood="yes";
$crossedocean="yes";
if ($beentohollywood || $beentoredwood && $crossedocean) {
if ("It's such a fine line") {
[...]
Tags: · Computers, Development, Links, Music, Oddities, Open Source, Poetry, Software
Music to Grieve By
November 3rd, 2004 · 2 Comments
I'm suffering from a curious combination of election fatigue and self-induced mortification. It's probably safe to say that I'm not the only one.
I can't being myself to watch any more news, read any more assessments, or consider the next four years. All I can think of it the chorus from Don't Let it [...]
Tags: · Government, Music, Politics, Ranting