Sharing is important for people to interact and communicate.
The music industry doesn’t get it, wants to get rid of YouTube and music downloads.
The movie industry doesn’t get it, wants to get rid of movie downloads.
The games industry seems to get it, with web interaction in games and multiplayer options ever increasing.
And the latest culprit? garfield.com. [...]
I had to change the blog theme, because while Vistered Little looks great, it had too many drawbacks in terms of style with the newer WordPress versions (like badly looking text next to pictures).
I’m now using the quite popular Atahualpa.
Painting the Mona Lisa with 1.001 paint balls coming from 1.001 barrels.
The MythBusters guys Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage did it at the NVISION08 show.
Good watch.
(Setup & Pretext: Part 1)
I seem to go back and forth between CreativeCommons by-sa and by-nc-sa for this site and my pics every couple of months.
I just can’t agree with myself what is the best one:
Allow more freedom, including taking money, for stuff I created? (by-sa)
Keep my works free, everywhere down the chain (with the option of licensing it [...]
When your profession is something you care about dearly, you should live it to the fullest.
That’s why I have started a new software development blog with two friends.
You can find it on CodingClues.eu.
We’re three software engineering students, and wanted to do something in the sense of CodingHorror or DailyWTF. To talk about code and our [...]
No, it’s not a Trojan, it’s not a hack of your ICQ (god, ICQ users are gullible… for every glitch in the system, a Trojan explanation comes up)… instead it’s some byproduct of the ICQ6 upgrade process.
The ICQ help pages offer an explanation:
As part of the process of upgrading ICQ users to our newest, most [...]
Is spam actually getting less and less?
I remember times when I got a couple of hundred spam mails per week. These days I get about 1 per hour, so it can’t be much more than 200 per week.
It’s still much, but I have the feeling it’s getting better. Did spamfilters win this war?
What’s your experience? [...]
Just got a spam mail: “Sie sollen Vi nicht einnehmen, wenn Sie eine Frau sind.” (”You can’t take Vi if you’re a woman.”)
So… does this mean Emacs is now doing e-mail advertising?
I’m now using Twitter, and again I’m not sure what I should decide on the everlasting question: Are the advantages of a heavy online life outweighing the privacy problems associated with it?
I love many of the web2.0 communites. I want people to know what music I listen to and contribute to online rankings of music [...]
So, let’s try it: Me on twitter.
Update: Can anyone tell me why twitter@twitter.com doesn’t work within pidgin?
Update: According to the blog, IM is down.
Update: A nice video showing the advantages of Twitter: Video
