hadess, I resent that statement. I’m full of shit, no e. Bloody english and their weird spellings.
:)
Sri keeps talking about hardware goodness. We need us some of that.
Was cool to see that Creative Commons released new licenses, and I updated my stuff, but there is no longer an option to do non-attribution licenses, which makes them fairly non-free, DFSG-wise. That is unfortunate.
Lucky brits- Lessig will be speaking in London on Thursday as well as the Friday talk I mentioned earlier.
Work is pretty stressful at the moment, but I’m excited about working on cool stuff and about GUADEC.
Hadess needs to certify his blog as being BLX 1.0 compliant.
Futurismic reminds me of slashdot, in a time long ago and far away, when CmdrTaco was still not afraid to say ‘sorry I haven’t posted anything lately, my exams have really sucked.’ And the news was actually timely and cool.
Heh. The pythons aren’t all they used to be but this was fun.
I continue to have fun with planet. It was pointed out to me that you can share things with bloglines, but dunno- I just like fooling with planet, I guess. Not that I’m even sharing my planets yet, really, either, though I guess those interested in the Duke Linux community can poke here.
Saw Oedipus The King last night at the American Repertory Theater. Brilliant staging, great acting, and play still basically as dull as it was in high school, when Doc would scream THE CROSSROADS IS THE VAGINA. Sometimes things don’t get better as you age. Shame.
Finally got an ogg player/ripper set up on my new MS-tax-free Dell. Quiet 160Gb disk, monitor dialed down to 640×480, and wireless trackball. Will set up VNC to use from laptops in other rooms if I need to. The open question now is whether to actually completely ditch my old stereo and buy a new set of speakers that are smaller.
Just saw from NTK that Lessig will be speaking at Oxford a week from today. If you’re reading this, and you’re in the UK, run, don’t walk. His talk is powerful and persuasive and will make you want to go apply creative commons licenses to everything you have in bit-like form. So go.
Saw the first episode of The Office last night. Had some funny parts, but mostly just made me uncomfortable. Ended up spending the rest of the night watching old Futurama on replaytv instead. BTW, if you’re a replay owner, run, don’t walk, to dvarchive. It rules.
I’m excited that Stephen Donaldson is working on a new set of Covenant novels. But he really, really needs to get a new web designer.
I went ahead and put my money where my mouth is and gave a serious chunk of change to John Kerry. I think he’ll probably be an ineffective president, but ineffective is better than the effective slimeballs we have running the show now. Yet again, I regret that the Republican Party chased John McCain away in 2000.
[Later: editing instead of starting a new post because I don't want to start a big political thread.] I never said I thought McCain was a moderate; I’m well aware he holds a number of conservative positions I strongly disagree with. But I’d rather an honest, well-intended centrist-tending conservative than the dishonest scuzzbag we’ve got or the pathetic excuse for a liberal I’ll happily settle for.
Found out last night that someone already has luis@gmail, just as someone already had luis@novell. Damn you. DAMN YOU ALL.
Scary- Penn State won’t let kids have servers in dorms. Experimenting with new tools is supposed to be part of the college experience, it is how you learn. Sad that PSU has been blackmailed to that extent. I’m sure they aren’t the only ones.
Fascinating to me (trying to be ethical in a big company) that google continues to push very hard to be Not Evil. This guy is ridiculously overboard, but it does still make a good point- Google are clearly now the leaders/visionaries in the software space, and people are now looking to them and not MS to have this kind of thinking and deploy it first. They’ll only solidify that if they can do integrated desktop search on XP before MS does it on Longhorn.
I just set up a personal planet to trivially read some interesting IP law blogs, and a couple other folks who I like to read regularly but who aren’t on p.g.o. It ruled- it’s been a long time since I set up something so quickly and simply. Thanks to Jeff and Scott for setting up something so nice.
Wow. Advo back up. Very nice. :) So much to write about ilaw-wise, but so little energy after completely stuffing my face with redbones tonight.
Curtis, I’m not difficult, I’m demanding.
Stolen from Lessig: apparently the big hit of Cannes so far this year is by a 31-year old who has been putting together autobiographical tape since he was 11. Cost of materials: $214. Cost of licensing soundtrack, other IP-protected materials to publicly distribute: $400,000.
I have finally peeked outside the planet.gnome world to read some other blogs. Probably I need to actually start using an aggregator, I guess, but I’m not really looking forward to that. p.g.o just fits my style so much better. Maybe I need to run planet.tieguy.org. I’m certainly tempted to create a free culture planet, at least.
I put up a few pics from city hall the other morning, after the previous night’s madness. No happily wedded couples, but perhaps some fun pictures of the media reaction.
Frank Field has a very comprehensive set of notes and note links about ilaw 2004, the conference I’m attending right now. I hope I’ll have some more time to write about it later. Suffice to say that I’m glad these guys are on our side :)