Author Archives: mjr

New Years Resolution: Avoid These Bad Ideas?

2009-01-02 by mjr

I’m not a big new year resolution maker (new year is just a side-effect of a calendaring system), but if you are, I suggest the following resolutions to avoid three bad ideas: Change your passwords and do not set it … Continue reading →

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Looking Back: 2008 Part 3

2008-12-29 by mjr

This is the final part of my review of popular articles on my news websites during 2008. It follows part 1 and part 2, but it can be enjoyed on its own, like an nice ripe cheese. Unlike one friend, … Continue reading →

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Looking Back: 2008 Part 2

2008-12-27 by mjr

This is a continuation from part 1 but can be enjoyed on its own too, like a good red wine. It’s a bit early for me for red wine, though. May BBC TV: Click: Free=beer and facebook-flaming – my letter … Continue reading →

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Looking Back: 2008 Part 1

2008-12-25 by mjr

Over the next few days, I’m looking at the most popular articles from this site and my previous news website during 2008. I’ll be doing it in three parts. Popularity is measured by page views from local access logs, but … Continue reading →

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Representing Developers

2008-12-24 by mjr

Open and voluntary membership is a point of principle for me, so I see SPI’s membership structure as a big plus. As I wrote back in August: In my opinion, a key difference of Software in the Public Interest is … Continue reading →

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Results of Which Social Bookmarking?

2008-12-23 by mjr

I asked Which Social Bookmarking? almost a month ago. I was looking for a service which:- is run on free software provides RSS feeds of new additions (pref. RSS-1, but any RSS is OK) provides all my bookmarks for download/backup … Continue reading →

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Debian, Lenny GR and the Secretary

2008-12-19 by mjr

Two policy issues have been brewing in debian and I’ve been mostly quiet about them because I’ve been busy with TTLLP work. One is the Lenny release GR which I’m still trying to make sense of. I mean: yikes! I’ve … Continue reading →

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SPI December 2008

2008-12-17 by mjr

The monthly board meeting of SPI will take place on irc.oftc.net #spi tonight (Wed 17 Dec) at 20:00 UTC. As it says in the meeting announcement, none of the officers have prepared their reports in advance and there are no … Continue reading →

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British Residential ISP Censorship News

2008-12-15 by mjr

Last week I reported that 95% of British Residential ISPs Censor – but I think I’m OK, so I’d like to quickly update on what I’ve seen happen since then:- My question to the Phone Coop’s election candidates has gone … Continue reading →

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Global 300 and chances to invest in a fuel co-op or meet Cooperatives-SW

2008-12-12 by mjr

The new Global 300 list has been released this week:- “the 300 top co-operatives are responsible for an aggregate turnover of 1.1 trillion USD which makes it the size of the 10th economy of the world nearly the size of … Continue reading →

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