Weather report: Sunshine, no wind, around zero and some snow remain. A very bright day. Today is a very special day. Economy report: Economic equality is increasing by leaps and bounds, employment and self-employment will rise and profits increase in productive business. Banks and bank oligopolies will be broken up, and One thousand nine hundred …
This spring is very late. Still a thin layer of icy snow on most ground. The ground is still deep frozen and nights are quite cold, so the melting is very slow, despite being mostly sunshine for weeks. We had a lot better weather here than in most of Europe, I think. But not even …
I am currently trying out different themes on this blog. The previous one I had for quite a while, but today I discovered it used tables. Tables? In 2013? A pity since it was nice. Currently looking for flexible width, 2 (or maybe 3) column view, with the possibility of having an image header. And …
CISPA har inte alls fått lika mycket uppmärksamhet som SOPA (än). Men uppmärksamheten mot SOPA i gammelmedia hände ju egentligen bara på det allra sista slutet. Men kanske är intresset för rätten till privatliv, integritet och därmed källskydd mindre än styrkan i paparazzimentaliteten (titta åt sidan och titta nedåt, snarare än uppåt, mot makten). www.cispaisback.org/ …
I guess no one has missed the big brouhaha about horsemeat in readymade dishes from Findus. I have not followed it very much, since I do not ever buy such products. There are many issues converging in this. It has been mentioned that some horses are medicated with stuff that makes their meat unhealthy for …
I am sorry this short memoir is not about political correctness 😉 About this time of year, 25 years ago, I used a computer for the first time. It was an IBM Portable with an external color monitor placed on top of it. It was jokingly referred to as "draggable" ("släpbar" in Swedish). It had …
Den 11 januari dog Aaron Swartz, 26 år gammal. Han tog sitt eget liv. Jag har tidigare nämnt honom i samband med det jag kände till honom mest för: att ha laddat ned enorma mängder akademiska publikationer från JSTOR, som han hade rätt att göra i rimliga mängder, även gränsen för rimlig ej var definierad. …
I just finished reading a real sci-fi classic. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. I read an old Swedish translation, made from the German translation from the Polish original from 1961. There are newer translations, but I haven’t had access to them. Three films have been made of Solaris, of which Andrei Tarkovsky’s from 1972 is the …
I have read the book series about the Watches, by Sergei Lukianenko (Lukyanenko). He has been writing and publishing since the 1980s. The Watches I think is his most famous work so far, not least because there were films made of the first two books. Lukianenko sees himself as a humanist, following in the literary …
If this is your first visit to my blog, you may want to read about my distro-hopping. Debian is my main distro. I have used Lenny, Squeeze, and maybe for the last year or so, Wheezy, which is the current testing. Wheezy is in freeze state, getting ready to reach stable status. I used to …
Ett år är ju en inte helt godtycklig tidsenhet. Ett varv runt solen för gamla Tellus. Från vilken dag man räknar nytt år är ju däremot tämligen godtyckligt. Förra året skrev jag om hur det gamla året dör och det nya föds (också en helt godtycklig metafor) i japanska ritualer. Vi har ju också bilder, …
Första januari är Public Domain Day – Dagen för allmänningarna (min egen översättning). När copyright för arbeten går ut. Det vill säga när det gått 70 år efter att författaren/kompositören/etc har dött. Jo, det är absurt att copyright är beroende av skaparens livstid och att den varar så länge, men så är det. Dessutom kanske …