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In the US, for instance, it is illegal to copy your own CDs on to your own iPod.
I thought this would be fair use, a la home taping?
Month: November 2005
The sun never sets on DarwinPorts.
a Google Map representation of DarwinPorts Developer Locations.
quote o’ the day
“The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.”
Feels like that these days as I close in on 33,000 words.
the race continues
white:~/Documents/nanowrimo 2005 paul$ wc -w 2005.txt
33095
2/3 of the way there.
does defining yourself by what you hate make sense?
In my experience, liberals define their beliefs in terms of what they want or hope for, while self-identified conservatives are always against something — taxes, business regulations, entitlements. What does that say about the two creeds?
I’ve never met a Conservative I didn’t like…:
I’ve never met a Conservative I didn’t like…
…possibly because I’ve never met a Conservative.I’ve met lots of people who call themselves Conservatives. Some of them are Right Wing reactionaries and authoritarians with none of the respect for tradition, fiscal responsibilitity, suspicion of strong, centralized Government, and belief in civil discourse that characterize true Conservatives. Wanting to burn down the world to make it over new, even if that Brave New World will have no Liberals living in it, is not a Conservative attitude.
These “Conservatives” are Radical Reactionaries. They sometimes like to call themselves Revolutionaries, but they are revolutionary in the way the Luddites were revolutionary or the supporters of the Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie were revolutionary. They want to go backwards. They are in revolt against the contemporary world, and not every revolt isn’t a revolution.
This opener is in response to this post. Both worth a read.
does the LazyWeb know of any domain registrars that take PayPal?
And don’t say GoDaddy: they seem to be unwilling to take my money without taking credit card information they don’t need.
still going
National Novel Writing Month – NaNoWriMo Wordcount:
Your current Word Count is 26700.
wc(1) says: 925 26700 275012 2005.txt
That means I am about halfway [ugh].
It gets a little harder to pull the daily ration of 1,500 words out of my guts each day, but not so hard I haven’t been able to (touch wood).
It helps that I do this after everyone has gone to bed, when I really can’t do anything else. They’re all asleep so I have do something quiet. The clicking of keys from the living room doesn’t seem to keep anyone awake.
I have tried to write some stuff earlier in the day, but there are too many distractions, too many other things I need to do or simply can do (procrastination? what’s that?). So come 9 PM, I hit the couch and see what I can come up with. And this week, school is dismissed at 1 PM, making it even harder to get anything done.
the vicious cycle
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Hmm, not bad for an immigrant
| You Passed the US Citizenship Test |
 Congratulations – you got 9 out of 10 correct! |
How would you do?
monetizing content or voting?
So after dropping out of Google’s AdSense program, they rolled out this FireFox bounty scheme.
I’m convinced it will not make me a thin dime, but I like the idea of advocating for something like an open, unowned Web and if it makes sense to do that with a consistent visual message, that’s fine.
It’s a lot like how I see personal weblogs in the blogosphere: Technorati be damned, I think link ranking is a useful metric. It can be abused, sure, but you can sift that out when you look at the referring links.
If you’re still using Internet Explorer, try something else. Mac users haven’t been forced to use it as their default for quite some time, but Windows users have some choices. FireFox deserves a look, even if you have horrible memories of Netscape products (this isn’t one, of course, and shares no code with that old trainwreck).
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