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August 2007 Archives
Partly in my frustration with CSS, I have decided to abandon CSS completely from all my personal sites.
Meh: That didn't last long. I've used 'Chocolate' from W3C Core Styles now.
A few weeks ago, at the BBC iPlayer Protest, my Nokia E60 was damaged - I think I leant against a wall and cracked the screen.
Anyway, since then, I've barely had a mobile phone, and I have to say.. I'm liking it.
Strangely liberating, not having a phone. Maybe I don't need a phone at all.
The new Mark Everclear website appears.
One bored night in Germany, 4 crazy girls decide to remake their favorite scene from, "Mrs. Doubtfire."
So, my friend, Chris Sams - international man of mystery, and king of the potatoshops is running the Dublin Marathon in the vain hope of winning a panda, which presumably, he will use for sexual purposes.
He's on the left. Look at his Cornish face. It's almost as if he understands.
In all seriousness, Chris is running for the WWF, who are not a wrestling organisation like you and Skeletor think, but instead a charity helping to conserve wildlife. So, if you're taking a plane anywhere this summer, why not offset some of your guilt and save a few animals in the process? Plus, you'll be helping a man from East Anglia fulfill his life's dream of having sexual intercourse with an endangered species.
As an accompaniment to Rob Myers' CC Ironies. Also, the SVG is here if you want it.
I have joined the Twitter thing - http://twitter.com/mattl
I've also installed a Wordpress plugin to limit the likelihood of me getting bored of it.
Freedom Defined has this:- Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons NC License
(I'm in Berlin at the CCC.)
Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/soi-disant
soi-disant \swah-dee-ZAHN\, adjective:
Self-styled; so-called.
Sick of being bitten, and other rubbish on Facebook?
Step one - click 'Inbox' and then 'Notifications'
Step two - pick the application that is annoying you, and uncheck it. Then click "Mark as Spam"
And you're done.
In other news, I deleted my Orkut account.
iCommons has an interesting article about Virgin Mobile using images licensed under the various Creative Commons licenses.
Do you understand Advogato? I'm having problems.
Currently, I am listed as something which doesn't let me do much with the site.
You can be one of four levels in the site.
Master
A Master is the principal author or hard-working co-author of an "important" free software project, i.e. one that many people depend on, or one that stands out in quality. A Master has command of the tools and is an excellent programmer. Generally, a Master works equivalent to full time (or more) on free software. Ideally, a Master writes clearly about the work and its broader context, and serves as a mentor to others in the free software community.
Journeyer
Journeyers are the people who make free software happen. A journeyer contributes significantly to an important free software project, or is the author of a useful or technically innovative project. A Journeyer is generally a competent programmer, but significant contributions of documentation, artwork, or other non-code goodies counts too. Ideally, a Journeyer works with others in the free software community to polish and refine the library of free software. While not necessarily the equivalent of full time, a Journeyer spends a significant amount of time on free software.
Apprentice
An apprentice is someone who has contributed in some way to a free software project, but is still striving to acquire the skills and standing in the community to make more significant contributions. Ideally, the Apprentice is in touch with either an individual mentor or a community that helps to gain these skills. An Apprentice spends a significant amount of time learning the craft of software development, whether by hands-on practice, academic study, or careful observation.
Observer
A user with no trust certification is referred to as an observer. This is the default trust level of a new user and the level to which you would certify someone to remove an existing trust certification. An observer does not have posting priviledges and other powers associated with trust users. They have read-only access to Advogato, with the exceptions of editing their own user profile and posting blog entries.
I think I should be at the Journeyer level. It also seems to me that unless I've heard of you enough to associate you directly with a project (ie. RMS for GNU, Linus or Alan for Linux, etc) that so should you.
I don't contribute directly to a large project - I'm cutting code on some smaller ones that I hope will make it big, but I do spend all my time working on free software, and free software related stuff.
Anyway, I have certified some people, installed a Wordpress plugin to cross post my blog to Advogato until I reach a high enough level of trust they'll let me put up my blog entry on their website - I'm going to ignore the fact I've got write access to the whole of gnu.org, arguably more important - and go to sleep.
If you know me, and think I'm worth rating - please do.
(If you don't know me, I designed this (as well as being the guy in charge of keeping it up to date), write this, am working to make this happen, talk about this and this and am working to become one of these. Oh, and I totally get this.)
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