☞ New Order

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Simon Phipps
  • World condemns UK control orders
    And rightly so. They are as bad as Guantanamo, punishment without end for people accused of being a threat without conviction and with secret evidence. The fact the Lib-Dems have not done away with them as they promised shows their presence in the UK government is a sham and that we are actually governed by old-style Conservatives with no respect for anyone but their rich friends.

  • Village halls lead hi-tech revolution
    Setting up broadband really isn’t rocket science, so it would be exciting to see more communities take matters into their own hands the way this one has done.

  • A Year After: The People
    Useful round-up of the diaspora Oracle induced. It’s events like this that re-seed the computer industry and cause future innovation and growth.

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☆ Giving Up Yahoo

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Simon Phipps

NO YAHOO!Yahoo Messenger is the only IM network I use where I am bothered daily by spam-porn-bots attempting to add me to their contact lists. Some days there are as many as 10 requests waiting when I log in. I don’t know what it is about Yahoo that makes their service so scummy, but it’s not stopping and I’m tired of it.

I don’t remember the last time anyone I actually wanted to talk with used Yahoo Messenger, so this blog posting is a request to anyone who knows me and uses Yahoo Messenger to make sure you have an account on something else – pretty much anything else, actually 🙂 – so we can stay in touch. I plan to remove Y! from Pidgin, Adium and the rest on Tuesday.

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☆ 2010 in review

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Simon Phipps

Auto posting: The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

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The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 95,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 4 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 321 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 292 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 17mb. That’s about 6 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was March 9th with 4,143 views. The most popular post that day was ✍ Last Day At Sun.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were twitter.com, blogs.sun.com, planet.opensolaris.org, blogs.computerworlduk.com, and news.ycombinator.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for wild webmink, liberte egalite fraternite, vote, happy birthday copyright, and bcs egm.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

✍ Last Day At Sun March 2010
130 comments

2

★ OpenSolaris Governing Board Resigns August 2010
12 comments

3

About The Author November 2009

4

✭ Is the “Open Source Bubble” Over? August 2010
2 comments

5

✍ When Reptiles Attack: Has IBM Tired Of FOSS? April 2010
15 comments

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☞ Unexpected

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Simon Phipps

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☆ Crossing Over

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Simon Phipps
Deer wading across the Tuolmne River in Yosemite National Park

2010 was a year of change for me, with many things I’m glad are past and with the roots of new things I am looking forward to exploring and growing. For 2011 I am full of hope:

  • that we will see successful new ways of doing business while promoting everybody’s freedoms;
  • that we’ll see the community of software-freedom-loving communities flourish and find new unity of purpose;
  • that we’ll see the emergence of a realization in our political leaders worldwide that the internet offers new opportunities for liberty rather than a threat.

My goal for the year is to do all I can to make those hopes real, both in my own life and in the wider community. I wish every reader here a very happy new year, full of hope, and look forward to working with you

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