Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates = Commies (boingboing)
Gates holds forth on Red Menace of IP law reform (El Reg)
We're Creative Commonists, Bill (Wired)


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Dear friends, happy new year.

Ah, New Year's Eve - so much organisation and anticipation for one short
night of alcohol- and drug-fueled revelry, celebrating nothing more than the
fact that it's been 365 days (give or take) since the last one. I hope you
enjoyed yours, however you chose to spend it.

auroraslave and I spent the night at Rock City Morgue at ( Read more... )

Dear friends,

The last week has been quite hellish. Tomorrow, I will be flying to Norway to burn down some churches (and hopefully unwind a little). Please look after auroraslave while I'm gone. See you in three weeks!

Take care,
[j]

About six or eight months ago, I put Linux on my family's computer. I
installed the latest SUSE release, and
set it all up so they could easily do everything they needed (which basically
boiled down to web-browsing, word-processing, image-editing and playing CDsThankfully, they haven't had any serious complaints (which for my family is ( Read more... )

Stop the world, I want to get off.

Seriously, America: thanks for totally ruining my day.

(And I'm still pissed at you, Australia.)

[j]

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[Note: the title of this entry is in reference to the hugely popular "For Dummies" series of technical books. I want to assure you all that I would never even contemplate calling you "dummies" to your faces.]

• Pirates & Emperors, as seen on jwz's journal:
  
  
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This week, I've been listening to lots and lots of White Zombie.

*hangs head in shame*

[j]

This week, I've been hard at work on Assignment 2 (PDF)
of the Analysis
subject I'm taking this semester. Or at least, I should have been ( Read more... )

A very important message for everyone who suggests / asserts / insists
that Sun should open-source Java:

If you don't stop doing that, you'll go blind.

Love,

[j]