the Web

The End of Civilisation as We Know it. Oh, wait.. no.

I feel like the web, Web 2.0, Freemium, Twitter, AJAX and all that other crazy stuff we find ourselves mired in is about to implode. The backlash has begun. It’s likely because ‘normal’ people (also known as ‘the rest of us’) are now involved (as it should be). I also think that we’re on course […]

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Linux/FOSS

Beauty vs Freedom

“I am shallow when it comes to aesthetics… poetry before prose, Greeks before Romans, dignity before elegance, elegance before culture, culture before erudition, erudition before knowledge, knowledge before intellect, intellect before truth” Nicholas Nassim Taleb Where do Linux users themselves sit on this spectrum? The question really has to be where do which Linux users […]

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Linux/FOSS

No More Command Line

With all the talk of the Windows 7 release, much publicity has fallen on Linux, and in particular Karmic Koala, which is being released not long after Redmond’s stuff. Have a look at Rory Cellan Jones article on the BBC: 24 hours with Ubuntu. The comments section is pretty neutral, but both the for and […]

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