Off you go… into the purple yonder!

I remember this day, 20 years ago. Rest in peace, astronauts.

An important Canadian record label, Nettwerk Music Group, has decided to join a RIAA lawsuit against a 15 year old Texan - on the side of the defendant.
Quote from Michael Geist’s excellent blog:
Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride says:
“Suing music fans is not the solution, it’s the problem. Litigation is not ‘artist development.’ Litigation is a deterrent [...]

I really wonder what list I’ve ended up on. I’ve been getting ‘business subscription’ offers for the Wall Street Journal in the mail. And for Men’s Health. Yes, I believe it was a business subscription offer to Men’s Health.
But the weirdest one came today, via e-mail. The subject of the message was
Early Bird Discount Finishes [...]

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are now running WordPress 2.0! The upgrade was pretty seemless. No visible changes for now, but the admin interface is considerably better.
Weekend
Somehow, this weekend involved several scorpion bowls. Ours didn’t have that cool smoke floating over them though.

I had to wait a very, very, very long time, but my Nokia 770 has finally arrived. I love it. It took about 2 minutes to find and install the driver for the nokia bluetooth keyboard I bought, and now I’m typing this post from the 770!
Things I love so far: the full-screen and zoom [...]

Just three more days, and the first draft of the GPLv3 will be made available at the launch event at MIT. If you’re in the neighbourhood on Monday, do stop by! Pre-registration is now closed, but there should still be some extra space, just show up between 9 and 10am to register on site. It’s [...]

A lot has been written about the 2006 CES show in Las Vegas. What I’ve read or heard so far has been pretty meaningless - new non-existing product from X, new gadget from Y that only works with Windows, etc etc. Until today. One of the LinuxToday editors has written an informative and interesting [...]

Sometimes the MBTA just works really well… Coming home last night, it took me 5 minutes to walk to Park street station, where a train was ready to be boarded. Nine minutes to Lechmere, where the bus was waiting. Five minutes on the bus, two minutes to walk home - home from downtown crossing in [...]