July 15, 2010
by Frederick
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« Read how it all started in Part 1. Synopsis While the initial controversy about the Thesis-not-being-under-GPL issue was focused on themes and derivative works, an unclear area that probably needs to be resolved in court, it seems there is … Continue reading
July 15, 2010
by Frederick
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Twitter erupted into argument last night in a fairly important battle for open source, the GPL, and WordPress. At the centre of the issue is a theme framework called Thesis which plugs into WordPress, sold with a restrictive license that … Continue reading
August 6, 2009
by Frederick
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I sincerely apologize for the lack of Office 2010 posts, which started with Part 1 and Part 2. I’ve gotten to use it a lot more in the course of daily business, which has opened my eyes to some astounding … Continue reading
June 7, 2009
by Frederick
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Awesome! WordPress has just released the release candidate of WordPress 2.8, which seems to contain an awesome amount of improvements over WordPress 2.7 (most of them subtle and unexposed to the end user). I’ve been running the trunk version of … Continue reading
December 20, 2008
by Frederick
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What do we hope to see in 2009? I mean this both personally, and in reference to our society as a whole. In this post, I am going to talk first about technological expectations, then some of the other societal … Continue reading
November 14, 2008
by Frederick
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M.W. recently suggested to me that writing down the things for which I am grateful will lead to some sense of happiness. I’m willing to try this out, because there is a sound psychological basis for doing so; this activity … Continue reading
July 3, 2008
by Frederick
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There’s a good reason that I like free stuff and you should, too. One of the amazing things that the Internet has led to is the ease of publishing to the World Wide Web. No longer do you have to … Continue reading
