Rob Myers

Big upgrade for Random Aesthetics. They now have a greatly expanded idea base.

hmmm. this deskjet really doesn't like me using it to actually try and print something.

♻ @kristianpaul Jesus Cartoon http://www.gnu.org/graphic... #gnu #fsf #linux #colibri

♺ @lucy: To all those who haven't yet seen #DrWho. David Tennant was good as ever, but don't watch it while sober.

Tell me that wasn't what he's always wanted... #themaster

Just bound some keys in Emacs to replace the ones I can't use on this keyboard. Easily hackable software makes life so much easier...

Fixed the formatting on all my old blog entries! Can't fix the comments just yet though.

♺ @bugabundo: NEW Facepalm http://de.acidcow.com/pics... <- Hey @zeroinfluencer!

I take it back. Python is unicoding OK.

Wow Python sucks for Unicode handling. Great for everything else, but the Unicode....

Help Furtherfield's "Zero Dollar Laptop" project! - http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodol...

Excellent article on "Taking a Free Culture Approach to Music" by @balleyne - http://www.rootsmusic.ca/2009...

RD

Features not to copy from Twitter - a retweet system that makes users into a usefully mute source of analytics. #redentfail

RT @diablod3 #Mono rejects #FreeSoftware #GPL herritage to go suck #Microsoft off instead http://boycottnovell.com/2009... #monofree

♻ @rysiek #Novell removes all #GPL'ed code from #MonoDevelop; I wait eagerly for them to remove gpl code from SLES/SLED...

sorry for the spam from cybercritic. fixed now.

♻ @glynmoody Instructables Restaurant - http://instructablesrestaurant.com/ claims to be "world's first open source restaurant"

♻ @schiessle #MS Covenant to End Users of #Moonlight excludes implementation under "GPLv3 or a Similar License"... http://www.microsoft.com/interop...

Gruber on Google's Meaning Of Open - "I really hope for Google’s sake that this horseshit artist Rosenberg <http://www.google.com/corpora...> is not representative of their executive ranks." http://daringfireball.net/linked...

Aaaaand that's me off another christmas card list.

♻ @bma ♻ @guardiantech The BBC's digital rights plans will wreak havoc on open source software. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol... (via @doctorow)

Slowly restoring my old blog post formatting using Python, Beautiful Soup, sed, and trial & error...

Trying desktop blog clients on GNU again. BloGTK 2 and Blogilo are the frontrunners, Blogilo slightly ahead for WYSIWYG.

UFO

Index on Censorship engaged in censorship? That's fail.

Yay for nodebox on GNU/Linux!

Is Solipsis available for free operating systems?

RATM to the power of X, k-punk diagnoses the mileu - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archive...