The Idiot revisited
Tuesday, January 8th, 2002No, not Dostoevsky… after a weekend of feeling, thinking, reading and writing I’m listening to good ole Iggy again. Aila doesn’t even like The Idiot that much, but bought me a fresh CD anyway. Thank you!
Tomorrow I’ll be working full on again, everything is set in motion… but today not much was done. I slept very badly and managed a driving lesson and a great vegetarian lunch before sleeping through what feels like some kind of virus. I’m still a little feverish, but feel better already.
O’Reilly has released a book about Programming Jabber. We didn’t have time to get into Jabber at my recent IM-course in Thailand… but maybe next time. Via Daily Python URL.
LOCKWARE: The Promise And Peril Of Hollywood’s Intellectual Property Strategy For The Digital Age.
Sometimes it’s very hard not to rave madly about corporate greedheads ruining everything. This is a very balanced overview of a serious problem most people don’t see yet.
Since the greedheads really ARE trying, it’s a little too balanced for my taste. YMMV 
Link via Cam
Mark Pilgrim describes the difficulties of reading his own old texts, written on ancient hardware and software. I had a strong deja vu reading this. The tech details are close but not the same - and just like Mark, I have ways of writing about myself that were there from the start.