Please spend twelve minutes of your time and watch this video. It is a very important video to watch, certainly this decade, maybe further back than that. It explains a new proposed law in the US called SOPA and it explains very, very well why technology people and companies are opposed to this law.
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Twelve minutes of your time
Please spend twelve minutes of your time and watch this video. It is a very important video to watch, certainly this decade, maybe further back than that. It explains a new proposed law in the US called SOPA and it explains very, very well why technology people and companies are opposed to this law.
Twelve minutes of your time
Please spend twelve minutes of your time and watch this video. It is a very important video to watch, certainly one of the most significant videos of this decade, maybe further back than that. It explains a new proposed law in the US called SOPA and it explains very, very well why technology people and companies are opposed to this law.
Z@ppelin iPhone/iPad app
Now online: the Z@ppelin iPhone/iPad app. I am involved in the back-end of this application, which in this case means most of the content. If you have children in the ages 2-6, try it out!
Smalltalk best practice patterns
If you’re programming along, doing nicely, and all of a sudden your program gets balky, makes things hard for you, it’s talking. It’s telling you there is something important missing.
Yep. Great book (ht: dhh).
Radio 1 gadget
For listening to (Dutch) public radio, you can now grab the gadget code here and use it in your Dashboard. (click the down arrow for Google/Hyves/HTML embed codes)
Fixing MySQL encoding issues with Ruby 1.9.2
There have been tens, hundreds, thousands blogs posts related to Latin1/UTF8 encoding issues. So here is yet another, this time related to upgrading from Ruby 1.8.6 + mysql gem to Ruby 1.9.2 + mysql2 gem. Continue reading
Geocities
Most of geocities.com has been released as a torrent. All 900 GB of it. I can’t decide what intrigues me the most: that apparently I could put all of geocities on a spare harddisk or that some clown board member destroyed fifteen years of internet culture without even blinking.
I want
an Urban Arrow. It will not only replace my second car, but also my first!
Office Mac 2011: incompetence nor malice
I have played with Office for Mac 2011 lately and noticed one of my personal annoyances still present. I am talking about the Microsoft User Data folder inside ~/Documents.

