If you don’t already – point your RSS feed reader over to Weatherall’s Law
and examine her most recent writings about Software Patents.
Kim describes her blog as “Being the thoughts and comments of an Australian IP Academic on IP, IT, etc.”
There is, of course, the legal disclamier that the views expressed there are her own and not that of….
which for some reason makes me giggle. Maybe it’s because she’s a lawyer and isn’t just putting it on there to sound cool.
# Tuesday December 14, 2004, The Age
TOMILSON, Rebecca Louise
it was followed by some beutiful words that must have been really difficult to write.
She touched a great many people and will be sorely missed.
This time a red letter wishing the best for the holidays from MÃ¥rten and a box with a green ribbon.
or how to put it into words they all sound so shallow a friend has died it’s hit everyone who knew her hard nobody expected it it seems unbeleivable it is hard to take in hope of it not being true is gone.
i’ll write when i can.
Check it out – i’m there now.
Is this my first planet? possibly… for the last year there has meant to have been a Linux Australia planet… but it just hasn’t happenned. Volunteers to set it up maybe?
by all these users.. eep.
since my office is moving out of my bedroom and into an actual room, I went and did some office supply and furniture shopping.
I hate traffic.
I REALLY hate traffic. It’s boring, slow, not fuel efficient and really wastes your time while you’re sitting in it. I haven’t driven through the CBD and near-CBD during the day in so long that I’d forgotten how bad it really is. urghe.
But Ikea was great. The big store in Richmond – wow, i could spend hours in there (and a few thousand bucks no doubt).
I bought a (smaller) desk. This’ll go in the bedroom (always need somewhere to do stuff) – and move my big one downstairs (not looking forward to that).
Also got a nice big thing to hold my ever-expanding CD collection.
It’s interesting… working for a company based in sweden and buying office stuff from Ikea. I guess it’s in the spirit of things.
The reason i was in the CBD was to get a copy of my birth certificate. Without which, it’s a lot harder to get a passport (which, beleive it or not, i’ve managed to do without all my life). But now, work requires it – so I’m getting one.
Getting the piece of paper took about two minutes, getting in and out of the city took forever.
Bloody city car park. coming out, i swear there was less than an inch either side of my mirrors. talk about crapping myself as driving out. That and it was next to impossible to get out of the car once i had parked (and spent about 5 or 10 mins actually looking for the darned thing).
Been sorting out my filing cabinet too. Trying to separate the work and personal stuff. will put work stuff somewhere more specific. Going to need to – what with expenses et al now being sorted out from home (can’t just leave them at work until i fill out the form).
but should all be good…. just have to get on with that task i’ve been assigned.
did something (early this morning) that well deserves a p76 award. well – at least a nomination.
i guess i’ll explain later… when all is good again.
(no, wasn’t work related – i haven’t gone and rm -rf mysql-5.0 or anything)
got my voip phone today. A Snom 190.
If I plug it into my main network, it constantly reboots. If i plug it into the wireless router (seperate network), everything is okay.
Trying a software update…..
It is important that you read and understand the implications of what is going through our parliament at the moment.
This will make yet another slab of people criminals.
purchased the most essential item for running a home office today. A coffee machine. Getting better at making coffee with it too. The second cup was actually drinkable :)
Debian Bug report logs – #274455 – Please add support for Evolution 2.0 in experimental
I am being game and doing a dist-upgrade. Evo2 – here I come!
oh shit am I scared.
great little terminal app. you set it up with timezones, then type ‘tzwatch’ – and it tells you the time!
Brilliant!
no, it’s not released – but i made a branch that should be a relatively stable version of 0.3.
it has none of the election work (it’s not finished) – and in hindsight, maybe it should have gone into a seperate branch… but oh well.
been doing some security fixes as well… and updating the installed copy on digital as i do.
MultiSync – A Synchronization Tool
Looks like evolution 2 support is coming along. this is like the feature i need to switch to evo2 everywhere.
let’s hope the initial sync doesn’t just duplicate everything :)
oh, I also bought a new car on Saturday.
I pick it up on Thursday, and spent Monday morning and about an hour today doing the insurance dance of poverty (mention you’re under 25 and they pull out the remove-left-arm-and-leg device).
As of the 1st of December (my start date), I’ll be a Software Engineer at MySQL AB.
Exciting stuff.
you can now accept nominations and put down your spiel.
At some point I’m going to have to go through a bunch of the code and do a security audit. We should be fine with what we’re running now, but the head of 0.3 most likely isn’t. All that will be problematic is insertion of crap into the outputted HTML.
There’s also been a number of improvements recently in the forms infrastructure which the older parts of the UI could benefit from.
Not that speed is a current problem, but a bit of caching could really help some things along – esp with get_member_id, get_member and has_permission. We really don’t need to go back to the database multiple times in the same page display. Temporary variables can just be messy too – much better to keep the code clean.
Preferential Voting
Good small explanation.
added a column to election. you now have a “number of required nominations”.
in a normal election, this will be two. One person nominates, the other seconds.
When there are enough nominations, the person can accept it, and then an entry is created in election_candidate.
at least this will be the case… soon.
About to go and write the accept nomination page thingy.