Lulu Blog » Living in a DRM-Free World.

Count me among the authors who feel that DRM did nothing to benefit us, and who're frankly relieved that it's on the way out.

Has the book been torrented?  Yup.  Does this upset me?  HELL no.

Think of it this way:  The Internet is the biggest communications medium in the world.  If you were an ( Read more... )

Here's a great find recommended to me (and all polyphasic sleepers) by one of my co-presenters at Penguicon, the very well-mannered and well-researched Neil Funk.

I've used it for several weeks now and WOW, what a difference.  F.lux runs in the background, and on my machine uses next to no resources and has never caused any conflict or problems ( Read more... )

"Contracting" in tech is a bullshit arrangement almost entirely skewed to favor the employer.

A true (independent) contractor arrangement requires tons of freedom on the contractor side - for example, they can't tell you where you work from, or what hours - only what they need done and to what standards.

Real "contracting" is also a *negotiated ( Read more... )

(A:  Nothing is truly random.  ;)

Devoting a post to the ton of small wonderful things I've run across this week!

• MyFitnessPal:  I've been looking for a simple app/site to help me track basic calories-in-calories-out forEVER, it seems - and this one finally has everything I need!  Simple interface, comprehensive database of food and exercises, and ( Read more... )

Drones.  It's a huge topic, but this article by the ACLU does a great job with its major points and substantive links-for-more-info.  (That's also a real, researched article; and this is a blog post; so compare accordingly.)

My own take on drones - which are little remote-controlled (or even self-controlled, to various degrees) flying machines that ( Read more... )

Oooo, if you haven't messed with Google Ngram, you shooooould!  Instant pretty graphs of the occurrence of any words and phrases in tons of books over time?  YES PLEASE!

Here, for example, you can see that the phrase "in the beginning" was used a lot in 1800 and has been in steady decline ever since, while "in the end" has been on the rise during ( Read more... )

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