Document Freedom Day posters have arrived

Two thousand A2 posters of Stephen Fry advertising Open Standards and Document Freedom Day have arrived! I will send these posters on to people who can use them all over Europe. Only 1.5 weeks remain before the big day – please let me know right away if you can receive some posters! Contact samtuke () Read more »

Install zip module php-zip on Fedora 16

Due to an issue with the packaging of zip functionality within Fedora’s PHP package, the yum package php-zip, which was available for Fedora 15, is not available in Fedora 16. This is actually a “feature”, not a “bug”, but either way, getting zip support in PHP now takes a few extra steps. 1. Install dependencies Read more »

Like candy from a baby: PS Vita takes freedom from new generation

SONY’s new hand-held console is riddled with Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). Both hardware and software are built to control what consumers can do, requiring large and frequent payments to SONY in order to experience the features the PS Vita advertises. As the SONY marketing machine focuses its powers on children and young adults in their Read more »

Car: 1, me: 0

So, I got hit by a car on Monday while cycling home. It was dark and raining, and I was in the cycle lane about to go straight over a junction when a car turned left into my lane and into me. I went over the handle bars, possibly over the bonnet, and landed on Read more »