I just noticed that epilicious doesn’t work for me It seems the recent work done by the Python group in Debian Sid has resulted in the following line throwing an exception:
from elementtree.ElementTree import parse
Yes, I’ve double checked that python-elementtree is installed (python-celementtree is also installed). At the moment I’m too lazy to look into it myself and I’ve sent off an email to the Debian user list.
Some interesting articles on Net Neutrality by David Ernst and Andy Kessler. I’m slowly starting to lean towards letting the market sort this out without government intervention. The idea of labelling is especially appealing.
That something’s wrong in Microsoft is rather obvious given the amazing delay in releasing Vista/Longhorn (whatever it’s called this week). After listening to the LQ podcast I tracked down the MSDN blog entry mentioned in it, Broken Windows Theory. It’s an interesting look behind the curtain.
I’ve just checked in a small fix for a rather irritating bug in epilicious. I’m surprised no-one noticed the bug earlier. A local modification to the keywords of a bookmark wasn’t propagated to del.icio.us, and a second sync would revert the local change.
I’ve checked in a fix and built a new package of course.
For the last few days I’ve been having problems with my email. The first thing I noticed was that the ORG mailing list got very quite. Then I realised I didn’t get my own postings! The administrator of the list says I’m still subscribed, and no-one else has reported any problems with the list. For testing purposes I’ve tried to subscribe other email addresses on the therning.org domain to the list. The confirmation emails never arrive!
The next thing I noticed was that emails I send through a friends SMTP server don’t reach thernig.org addresses either. I use this server to send private emails from work and this means I can’t email Dita from work.
This is most irritating and I haven’t got a clue where to start looking to fix it
Eric Flynn’s first column on copyright got me thinking. It’s a really good piece on copyright, but especially one thing jumped out and stuck in my mind:
Copyright is a privilege, not a right.
I believe basically a similar line of reasoning can be applied to patents.
Monopolies are evil.
Patents are government-sanctioned monopolies.
Hence, patents are evil.
However, the patent system is the best way we have to address an even bigger evil:
It’s so expensive to capitalise on an invention that only big companies can do it.
So to prevent this bigger evil we adopt a slightly lesser evil—the patent system. This doesn’t change the nature of it though, it’s still evil! Especially it means that expanding the area of what can be patented should be done with utmost care, because frivolous expansion brings a significant risk of harming society. In particular the burden of proof should be on the side that is seeking the expansion, not on the side arguing for the status quo.
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