2011/10/07

Announcing Scriptus, my latest side-project!

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I've been working on this small project in my very limited * spare time since Christmas 2010. I published as open source it a couple o...
2011/09/20

Primitive automated spell-checking of markdown using sed and ispell

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(Why yes, this is a niche post!) Right now this is just a shell script, but it could easily be added to the build process so that a typo (or...
2011/02/06

Eben Moglen's talk at FOSDEM '11

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Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center and at the Free Software Foundation gave the first keynote of Fosdem 2011 The talk centered ...

The market can eat itself, and us.

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"Security can be viewed as a tax on the honest, and [the theft of iron manhole covers, lead roofing and aluminium guard rails] demonstr...
2011/01/30

Bleary-eyed first impressions off the Android development kit (ADK)

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I wouldn't even be doing this if the iPhone SDK wasn't Mac-only. Installing the ADK necessitated a good deal of yak shaving to get ...
2010/12/13

Idea: scripting for the rest of us.

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Rhino has had continuations for a long time now. JavaScript is the language of the web. However, long-running executions are generally only...
2010/12/11

Idea: decentralised P2P website mirroring

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The recent case of Wikileaks being booted off AWS provoked the following thought: if lots of people started mirroring wikileaks on EC2, Amaz...
2010/12/08

Thoughts on WikiLeaks

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We should be more outraged at the malfeasance revealed than at the manner in which we learnt of it. That we aren't, speaks to our cynici...
2010/11/25

'War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning' by Chris Hedges

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This book is about war, but not about guns or tanks or tactics or strategy. It laments the nature of war, which is murder. It describes the ...
2010/11/17

Mobile telcos need to evolve.

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It's commonly understood that mobile network operators are afraid being turned into dumb pipes. I think that they should reject this fea...
2010/06/05

On synthetic genomics aka 'artificial life', and dire predictions.

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By now most people have read about ' Artificial Life ', i.e. the transplant of a DNA sequence manufactured based on a digital bluepr...
2010/05/19

Jevons paradox, Moore's law and utility computing

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TL;DR: A quirk of economics may explain why computers have always seemed too slow, and could indicate that a utility computing boom will ta...
2010/04/18

YAGNI and the boring stuff

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YAGNI is an acyonym meaning "You Ain't Gonna Need It", and behind this lies the principle in software that code should not be ...
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2010/04/16

And now for messed up UK politics: The Digital Economy Act and other IP

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I want to bring together some articles I've read recently, which some of you may be familar with. In Why Content is a Public Good , an e...

The timing could not be better. Or worse, depending on your POV.

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So, GOP Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell flies into New York to coordinate messaging with Wall Street in opposition to the proposed f...