1 comment Two thousand A2 posters of Stephen Fry advertising Open Standards and Document Freedom Day have arrived!
I will send these posters on to people who can use them all over Europe. Only 1.5 weeks remain before the big day – please let me know right away if you can receive some posters!… Read the rest
3 comments Due to an issue with the packaging of zip functionality within Fedora’s PHP package, the yum package php-zip, which was available for Fedora 15, is not available in Fedora 16. This is actually a “feature”, not a “bug”, but either way, getting zip support in PHP now takes a few extra steps.… Read the rest
0 comments SONY’s new hand-held console is riddled with Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). Both hardware and software are built to control what consumers can do, requiring large and frequent payments to SONY in order to experience the features the PS Vita advertises. As the SONY marketing machine focuses its powers on children and young adults in their homes and schools through the usual multi-million dollar advertising onslaught, I thought I’d highlight the ways in which a new generation of gamers will have their freedoms taken from them.… Read the rest
6 comments So, I got hit by a car on Monday while cycling home.
It was dark and raining, and I was in the cycle lane about to go straight over a junction when a car turned left into my lane and into me.… Read the rest
