In Belgium, we have Copiepresse a Belgian association representing the editors and having a very personal perspective of Internet and its operation. Copiepresse is complaining (with the bloody support of the Belgian legal framework) that an indexer is gathering pages from their press editors. Of course, an indexer is just a robot crawling the pages and following the robots file edited by the editor of the website. If you check the robots.txt on the website of a Copiepresse member, lesoir.be :
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Instead of starting legal complain, they should ask their technical people to just edit the robots.txt file to disallow the GoogleBot?. That's simple, cost nothing … but Copiepresse won't make any press-release, it's less fancy and visible. By the way, there is a nice introduction about robots.txt for the ignorant editors, they are often the ones member of a "authors rights" society. Sorry I'm too sarcastic today…
Tags: archiving google copiepresse copyright
The Alfa Matrix label is a well known Belgian music label at least for the EBM fan. They are currently phasing censorship from various printing companies refusing to do the booklet of Renee Cooper-Komor. We see her eating some bloody meat… That's a crazy situation : we see everyday blood in news but an artistic representation of blood is censored.
Tags: freedom censorship music ebm
The OLPC project is discussing about the potential eBook readers to be used in their project. I recently saw that they imported in their GIT tree, a minimalist eBook reader for reading book from the Gutenberg Project in HTML format. The software is composed of two parts : the client part (in Javascript) and the "server" part (two small Perl scripts). The software is quite young (imported two weeks ago) but looks very promising just because it's so simple… I'm always very surprised by the long process needed to reach simplicity in a software.
If you want to play and install the software :
git clone git://dev.laptop.org/ebook-browser-reader/ olpc
The software is still very alpha but it works. Don't forget to change hardcoded book name in script.js. I'm waiting for the next updates of the software.
Tags: ebook olpc gutenberg ebook_reader
Again we lost one hour during the week-end, you know the bloody summer time kill our sleeping time again. The "expert" told us that's good for energy conservation or some other unproven reason. The only thing I know is that my sleeping is one hour less. Of course, you'll tell me that I just have to sleep one hour early to get back the missing hour. That's true but that's also mean you remove one active hour. Of course, it's easier to complain about the summer time shift than the winter time shift. Sorry, today I'm complaining just because I slept one hour less… To continue with criticisms, "system of practices using processes" is another ground where "expert" told us what to do and how to do it. I found this nice quote on Coding Horror about those nice "processes" :
Process is no substitute for thinking.
I forgot to mention : All events regarding "processes" are fictitious and not part of my work activities ;-)
Tags: programming process 6sigma complaining
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