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SCO: Getting ridiculous...

There is an old Swedish saying: Where your brains ends the fists continue. I guess SCO has reached the point where they no longer have any valid arguments. How else do you explain this?

SCO has published a number of quotes from well known Linux "spokespeople" (I doubt they would like that title) Bruce Perens (author of the Open Source Definition) and Richard Stallman.

To me they are clearly taken out of context in such a way that the original meaning is completely lost.

SCO | Scosource | Quotes_from_leaders

Read all about the SCO vs IBM case in this Wiki maintained by Karsten Self.

The quotes:

Richard Stallman

"I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect."
Richard Stallman, Free as in Freedom, Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software: O'Reilly (2002) at p. 72

"The whole GNU project is really one big hack. It's one big act of subversive playful cleverness..."
Richard Stallman, Revolution OS (DVD)

Bruce Perens

"This is becoming a tradition. I go there and break the law every year in the name of free speech."
Bruce Perens, explaining his plan to demonstrate how to modify DVD technology to attendees of an Open Source convention.

"We have to remember that Linux is a follow-on to UNIX. It's not just a UNIX clone. It's actually a UNIX successor."
Bruce Perens, mpulse magazine, December 2001.

Why is it so much more fun to do what you shouldn't?

Found via shutterbug's site a free service for adding comments and annotations to your site: Enetation. Seems to work fine. Very nifty service.

Done it again. While trying to get something proper done I ended up coding stupid gadgets on my site. It's like when I was at the university and exams were coming up. Never was the apartment so clean, and doing the dishes so fun as when the text books were calling from the study desk...

Oh, well. There is still time to do what I should. The Enetation service seems great though. Just what I needed.

Fascinating really, that you today can more or less build a site with custom look and feel offering great services and user interactivity just by assembling bits and pieces from other service sites. Mailing lists, update notifications, poll services, comment engines... Remote calls from a simple web page is all you need.

Add simple publishing like Movable Type, perhaps even that hosted by someone else since you have access to the templates from within the tool, and you have a great site for marketing any type of organisation and keeping an active dialog with your visitors and clients.

My life divided in chunks

Finally found the time to add categories to PhonoPhoto. Now the digitized still images from my immediate surroundings are browseable by chunks...

Excellent. Seems to work just dandy. I already realise that I must be very specific about which categories I place a picture in though, or it won't be very useful.

Tomorrow is midsummer's eve. Going south, to a friend in Mölle (Nyhamnsläge?), for dinner and everything that comes with midsummer sun. You know: raw, pickled fish; schnaps; earthmen; loads and loads of Swedish beer; burnball and all that. Kubb and so on. You know. It'll be great.

Ordered a TV sofa yesterday. The biggest in the IKEA catalog: Göteborg. Perfect for spooning in front of the TV. That means that a few weeks from now, we will have more furniture in the TV room than my big ass TV. It looks kind of lonely in there at the moment... Why did I get that TV? Honestly, I never thought I would say this, but there is such a thing as a too big TV. It is huge.

Mikael Thorson, blogging on unstruct.org, got the technical stuff needed to experiment with DynaMaster template language today. Will be interesting to hear what he has to say about it next week.

Mini-vacatíon. Going shopping.

Today I have a well-deserved mini-holiday. One full day. Wooh! Spending it with Cristina and Marianne, going shopping. Great fun. :)

We are going to Gekås, in Ullared. Famous shopping center in the southern parts of Sweden. They have everything, at absolutley lowest cost. Going to stock up on all kinds of domestic stuff. TP, washing detergent, soap, socks... And perhaps a RF transmitter / receiver to get TV in the bedroom in the new apt. ;)

The apartment is coming along nicely. I am finally feeling a bit less stressed out. Messing up cleaning out the old apartment didn't help relieving the stress of moving AND having the worst time at work ever. I forgot a few things. Like cleaning out behind the stove. So yesterday I went over there with a gift, a basket with yummy Italian goodies and an Italian riserva: Velletri. Good stuff. I hope they forgive me.

All we need now is a new sofa. Can't really use the living room yet, so it has turned into crap room. Kitchen, study and bed room all look great though. I really like it here, it is like coming home. What on earth did I want with thos fancy apartments I have been living in the past five years? This is much better. An ordinary kitchen, a small but practical bath room, a huge living room and lots and lots of nooks and crannies and holes in the walls. ;) Definitely needs a paint job, but first things first. Cosy TV-corner with new sofa.

Started reading a new book, The Dancing Masters of Wu Li, or whatever the Swedish title would translate to. About quantum physics in a non-technical / -mathematical kind of way. Starts out really well.

Been doing a lot of referrer-surfing lately. Fascinating sport. It is really intriguing to sit and watch all the different paths people use to visit your site. Webmail-referrers, people linking from their blog because they saw a photo on Photo Friday or Theme Thursday that they liked (Thank you!), incoming from postings I have made on other sites, picture posts or blogs like lundwall.se... Things spread in the most peculiar way.

Like patterns of organic energy. Can't wait to get back to that Wu Li book. ;)

Photos telling where they are taken...!

Now this is what I want: a camera software tagging photos with GPS data, making the photos able to tell where they were taken. Just like Mie!

On the site Tokyo Tidbits a girl named Mie posts photos from her cell phone. Her photos have an added spice: they are tagged with geospatial data. Huh, you say? GPS! The photos tell where they were taken by keeping coordinates as meta-data about the photo!

So cool. I am deeply, deeply envious. ;)

So this is what I want: a camera software for my Nokia 7650 that uses the GSM network to triangulate its position when snapping a photo with the built in camera, translates that position to GPS coordinates and stores the data in the photo.

Then I can shamelessly mimick the "location info"-link Mie has on her site. That would be really neat, using the phone camera to not only document tidbits of my everyday life but also being able to track how I move about using the photos as a trail of bread crumbs.

Wonder who I can bribe to create such a camera software for the Nokia 7650. ;)

Here is information about storing GPS data in JPEGs: http://www.danger-island.com/~dav/writeon/archives/000870.shtml

According to that post (if I understand it correctly), Mie is publishing her photos using a plugin to Movable Type. Must email and ask if the script is available, or if I can somehow have a look at it. Would be neat to be able to post to the Movable Type system as well as DynaMaster.

Moblogging made easy

Luckily, I never started to spend any serious time on trying to create a service for others to moblog photos from their phones to individual blogs. The services are starting to pop up now.

Phlog.net, 20six.co.uk, Lunarstorm events...

Services for people with camera phones are starting to get common. Specifically, 20six.co.uk looks really interesting. Worth checking out.

I still have an idea though, on how to create a more collaborative effort moblog. Needs ironing out some wrinkles though. And when will I find the time? Gah.

20six - Your own personal weblog. It's quick, it's easy and it's mobile. Keep your journal up-to-date on the move with MMS

Whatcha doin'? Moving!

So little time. So much stuff. My life now adds up to about 23 paper bags, 11 banana boxes, one big ass 34" TV box and 4 flat IKEA packages. It is cleaning time.

You can hardly tell, but I have kept busy lately. I have four book reviews to write on the books that now are getting seriously overdue back to the library (ooooh, heavy fines await).

Me and Cristina have put our entire life (mostly mine, her stuff is in Malmö...) in paper bags and boxes.

I have been working too much, as usual, but now everything seems to be lightening up a little.

Recently, the first live event covered by fans equipped with camera-phones was put on the web by Lunarstorm (www.lunarstorm.se). Seriously nice. Six or so people equipped with phones sent text and images back to the Lunarstorm site from the Stockholm Calling music event. I somehow knew Lunarstorm would be first. ;)

I still have an idea for a camera phone web site though, that seem viable. Now that I built the crap I must find some fun use of it.

More to come. When I find time.