It looks like Bob hasn’t been paying attention to my blog lately. The CBC added RSS feeds a week or two ago. I’m sure it’s just the holidays keeping him busy :)
Author Archives: Dan Siemon
Holiday time
Well, another semester is over. I can’t believe I only have 4 months of my undergraduate degree left.
Besides taking a few days off I will also be putting a large amount of time aside for hacking on LQL.
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Permission culture
Checkout this interesting entry at the Creative Commons blog about the effect the current copyright system is having on documentaries. The short movie is worth watching.
Too much coding…
Canadian copyright update
More bad copyright news in this article from the Globe and Mail.
Monitor Calibration
When reading a photo manipulation article in Linux Journal I found a reference to this monitor calibration link. The settings recommended on this site give my monitors a much more yellowish colour than they had previously. I’m not sure I like it but I figure they probably know better than I do.
Keyboards
Many computer users have fond memories of the old IBM keyboards that made the loud key click sound. Apparently, these people are still building them.
Intellectual Property a misnomer?
Richard Stallman the man behind the FSF and the GPL has written a short piece on why the term intellectual property should not be used. Personally, I think it shouldn’t be used just because when I see the acronym IP, I think network protocol, not intellectual property.
