Election 2007Election 2007
I am a member of the Greens. The main reason for joining them is that they have principles. The Greens Charter [1] guides everything, policy must comply with the charter[...]
Drugs and an ElectionDrugs and an Election
As mentioned in my previous post [1] the government is using our money to advertise its policies. I previously covered the “Internet as a threat to children” issue, the other[...]
Internet and an ElectionInternet and an Election
Before the election was called the Howard government (being unethical in every way) started using public money to campaign. Part of this election campaign was two documents sent out to[...]
BoingBoing and LicensesBoingBoing and Licenses
Today I was thrilled to see that Cory Doctorow (who among other things wrote one of my favourite Sci-fi novels [1]) copied one of my blog posts on to BoingBoing.net[...]
RAID and Bus BandwidthRAID and Bus Bandwidth
As correctly pointed out by cmot [1] my previous post about software RAID [2] made no mention of bus bandwidth. I have measured the bus bottlenecks of a couple of[...]
Perfect Code vs Quite Good CodePerfect Code vs Quite Good Code
Some years ago I worked on a project where software reliability should have been a priority (managing data that was sometimes needed by the police, the fire brigade, and the[...]
Conditions of Sending EmailConditions of Sending Email
Update: Due to the popularity of this post I have created a T-Shirt and put it on sale at http://www.cafepress.com/email_eula . Update: Unlike most of my blog content I permit[...]
WTF – Let’s write all the code twiceWTF – Let’s write all the code twice
There is an interesting web site WorseThanFailure.com (with the slogan “Curious Perversions in Information Technology”) that documents amusingly failed projects. The name used to be TheDailyWTF.com but changed due to[...]
Everyone Should BlogEveryone Should Blog
At this month’s meeting of the Linux Users of Victoria [1] I gave a talk titled Everyone Should Blog (unfortunately the title was missed in the meeting announcement). I’ve been[...]
Better Social NetworkingBetter Social Networking
When advogato.org was still cool I signed up to it. It was an interesting research project in skill metrics (determining the rating of people’s coding skills by the votes of[...]