Daily Archives: April 13, 2006

Open-source

The Euston Manifesto throws in a paragraph about Open-Source Software. As part of the free exchange of ideas and in the interests of encouraging joint intellectual endeavour, we support the open development of software and other creative works and oppose the patenting of genes, algorithms and facts of nature. We oppose the retrospective extension of […]

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The Euston Manifesto

In this New Statesman Article, Norm Geras and Nick Cohen explain the history behind a document which has become known as “The Euston Manifesto.” The Manifesto itself can be downloaded from here [PDF] or read on Norm’s Blog. I think I agree with most of it. Please read the whole thing.

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The Internet is Broken

This is the third time now in as many days I’ve had an error message on the internet. This time, while trying to comment on Oliver’s Blog, I got the error message: Space Not AvailableThe MSN Spaces service is being upgraded and is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. For the record, the comment I […]

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An update on Polyphasic Sleep

This chap’s given it up. I’m still trying to find how I got to his site, however, as I never subscribed to it. I downloaded the feed for another site and got both of them. Oh well, we’ll see what happens. Maybe WordPress will sort themselves out.

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Web 2.0 again

Over at Chronotron, it’s Web 2.0 Week. All through the week (9th – 16th), Chrono Tron’s posts will be fully dedicated to Web 2.0, it’s various aspects and loads more to keep you interested. I’m going to be following it. Will you?

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What a load of old cobblers

This chap has finally gone totally bonkers. Here’s a sample: Acknowledge the math below or go to hell.4 Day Cube disproves 1 Day God.[…]4 Day math condemns 1 Day fools.These 4 absolute simultaneous days PROVES the1 day god, 1day academia, 1 day religion and the1 day media to be erroneous, fictitious and evil lies.Education equates […]

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