January 2010
If nothing else, Flickr Pro is worth it for the stats page; pure ego juice…
Thinking about upgrading to Flickr Pro: is it worth it?
Well that was quick: you can now see my photos at full res http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonwryan/
“You cannot control distribution or create scarcity without becoming isolated from this new networked world.” Gold.
Fricker by name, fricker by nature http://j.mp/bCPKws
This speech by the editor of the Guardian is outstanding http://j.mp/cnGSYT
The next wave of tedium: M$ releases 150 “Advanced PowerPoint slides” http://j.mp/dj66zb God help us all…
Attaching 16MB of photos to an email is a declaration of cluelessness. And a hostile one at that…
Does your browser leave a digital fingerprint? http://panopticlick.eff.org/ Help the EFF find out…
Some timely advice for all the excited Apple fans out there http://flic.kr/p/6djJzR
http://twitpic.com/104bm2 - Does Google know something that we don’t?
Steve Jobs: the Pied Piper of DRM http://j.mp/aDRlaB
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
King Tubby And The Agrovators (11)
Linton Kwesi Johnson (8)
Tower of Power (6)
Art Ensemble of Chicago (4)
Parliament (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Some of the commentary about the Sourceforge decision is a little detatched from reality http://j.mp/aLZii7 It’s not the Pirate Bay people
UK Government to build their own cloud and move to open source http://j.mp/dj64l5
For The Love Of Culture | The New Republic →
Larry Lessig on the Google books deal and the deleterious impact it will have…
This is exhilerating and sad at the same time: bribing public servants with zero rupee notes http://j.mp/98gn1e
Linux.com :: Training your Mutt →
More advanced tips for setting and configuring mutt…
Seriously tempted to disconnect from the internets for a week to avoid all this iTablet hype…
The very existence of the phrase ‘top bloggers’ make me despair; the fact that idiots use it doesn’t surprise me…
Robert De Niro walked out of the remake of ‘Edge of Darkness’ due to “creative differences” http://j.mp/8Yi54e Says it all, sadly…
RT @b3rn: Nice one, Cyrillic: a journey through cyberspace http://bit.ly/54GveE #DRM #rightsbots
A brief interview with Richard Stallman that highlights (again) the man’s integrity http://j.mp/5mduff #rms
Looking at installing folding@home http://folding.stanford.edu/
O’Reilly drops #DRM on their ebooks and sees an 104% _increase_ in sales http://j.mp/5NKIU1
Judge reduces the Jammie Thomas-Rasset P2P damages by 97% http://j.mp/8dJv91 Sanity prevails…
File sharers the music industry’s best customers http://j.mp/6OoUWj A fact omitted in industry report (oddly)…
Rather charming video for a wet Saturday morning http://vimeo.com/8837024
RT @LRBpersonals: Man, 46. Animal in bed. Probably a gnu. Box no 1910. #lca2010
RT @NZParliament: .@nzparliament now managed by Parliament’s web & library teams, thanks to @twfynz for establishing & tending to this
NZ govt looks to extend iGovt to private services http://j.mp/7AhQf1
This is brilliant: a letter from a band explaining why EMI won’t let them embed *their own* videos http://j.mp/6C00Xt
Listening to @ColinJacksonNZ strip the obfuscation out of copyright rhetoric #lca2010
Awaiting the pearls of wisdom from @glynmoody at #lca2010
Can’t tweet during @glynmoody’s #lca2010 keynote, its just too damn interesting…
Just ordered a six cell battery for the EeePC - not all conferences have the brilliant power that #lca2010 provides…
Following the lca2010 tag this week has confirmed my feeling that I can’t keep up with more than a couple hundred people…
linux.conf.au 2010 – Day 2: paradoxes & open... →
Pia’s summary of the miniconf…
Technical decription of LDAP from @normnz “If it breaks, we’re fscked”…
Are there any other Archers here at #lca2010
Microsoft desktop is the rick roll of IT — @normnz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Art Ensemble of Chicago (5)
Ornette Coleman (2)
Sonny Sharrock (2)
Parliament (2)
John Coltrane (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Would you be confident jumping into a car controlled by closed source software? #lca2010
Enjoying a beer on the deck listening to Linton Kwesi Johnson’s ‘Forces of Victory’…
Great day at #lca2010 marred slightly by my jacket disappearing from Renouf 1. Anyone seen it (khaki from mandatory)?
RT @robertbrook: lady gargle more like
Gabriella Coleman about to keynote “Free Software & the Global Politics of Intellectual Property Law” #lca2010