Archive for June 30th, 2005

Cool Meta Tag and the Most Concise Blog, Ever

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Found in the Whois Source website code:
<meta name=”jedi-mind-trick” content=”You will bookmark this site and use it a lot.”></meta>
John Graham Cumming’s blog (the one and only entry):
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“In god We Trust?”

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

A college student in California, writing a paper for an English class about the history of Christianity in the United States, used the word “God” (big ‘G’), and was failed for it. Her professor said that it (the use of a big ‘G’, as opposed to vague references to a “Christian god”, apparently) “would offend [...]

Open Source Software and the Free Software Foundation

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

I love free and open source software. In fact, I use open source software for database management, blogging, blog reading, web browsing, and doing dozens of other daily tasks. I love Linux, MySQL, PHP, and Firefox, in particular. Ocassionally, I even contribute some code - a script or function, usually - to the world, myself, without any licensing, whatsoever. I have a real problem with the core philosophy of the GNU project and Free Software Foundation, however, that software should not have owners and should always be “free” (in the sense that source code should always be available and users should always have the right to modify and redistribute it).