ftw?
Right. So. Here’s the thing. I work in ‘internet stuff’, software, digital media, etc.. Actually doing that for a day job does two things for you – it keeps you looking for The Next Big Thing for the...
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I was planning to post something this morning – another thrilling technical article, no doubt – but it’s Advent this coming Sunday (at least, in college it is) and preparations for that have sucked up...
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Long time no see
As is my wont, I took the last half of December as holiday (having carefully saved it up during the year) and got back in to work today, hence the slight drop in post frequency. Of Blogging If my first...
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Coding style, Haskell
I finished chapter five of the Haskell book I’m reading last night, and the bits of it are starting to make sense. I was doing some of the exercises and managing to write functions that compiled first...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group
Dear reader… (maybe it’s readers plural), This weekend I was at Open Tech 2008, which was fun. I got to hear about how cool OpenStreetMap is, about the inspiring work that the Open Knowledge Foundation...
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Me, the IWF and child porn
I went to the Convention on Modern Liberty on Saturday, which was a pleasure to attend. It was great to be in the company of vaguely like-minded people who care deeply about the [alleged] slow but...
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My new game – Civil Liberties Trolling
I know, I know. You prefer the posts about code. Go read JSR #170, #277, #283, #311, revise the two kinds of JMS and have a butchers at JPA. That’ll keep you occupied while I rant. So. Cory writes to...
View ArticleA modest copyright reform proposal
Copyright law is a little bit broken. Lawrence thought (thinks, presumably) so, Rufus thinks so, I think so. What’s to be done though? Efforts at legislative reform have, to date, been pretty...
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