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I am an Ubuntero
I have just received my first karma points for reporting bugs and generally attempting to help on Ubuntu. This makes me rather unfeasibly happy. I feel like I'm finally paying back some of what I owe for the Free Software I use. -
Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho is not the literary world's most active Web aficionado, but he's certainly its most prominent. The Brazilian author has sold more than 100 million books, which include 14 short story collections and the novel "The Alchemist." He has been a fan of the Internet since the early 1990s. He spends at least three hours a day online, ( Read more... ) -
From Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"...
Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices ( Read more... ) -
Copying is not stealing, mmmkay?
I just left this on my friend Richard's blog when he discussed the "copying CDs is stealing" issue. I've been struggling with this for many years (one reason why I haven't made a CD in a while, I'm morally unsure of what it means anymore), but I'm slowly getting to a place where I think I am starting to understand this fully...
"Illegal downloading ( Read more... ) -
Mayday weekend
Where to begin to describe the fun of the last couple of days... I'll try to give you some flavour ( Read more... ) -
holiday?
I was really looking forward to having a very relaxing week's holiday this week; alas it was not to be (at least so far). Problems at college led me to have to go in there for the first couple of days, and other problem have been occupying far too much of my time and mental energy last couple of days ( Read more... ) -
Frankfurt Musikmesse
Frankfurt Musikmesse is the biggest music instrument trade show in the world, by a very long way. Twelve halls of everything from tablas to grand pianos. I've been coming here nearly every year for about twenty years, first as a customer, and then as an exhibitor. This year I could definitely feel the economic woes hit - it used to take me about ( Read more... ) -
BSG
Just saw the end of BSG.
Bittersweet. In so many ways.
Goodbye. You were the best show ever on television. -
most sensible thing I've heard in ages...
At last my thoughts on the digital copying issue have finally been crystallised in this statement from Cory Doctorow, in the foreword to Little Brother:
...here's my pitch on why giving away ebooks makes sense at this time and place:
Giving away ebooks gives me artistic, moral and commercial satisfaction. The commercial question is the one that ( Read more... )