Månadsarkiv: augusti 2004

Old entries restored

Postat den 31 augusti, 2004 av staffan

I finally made good on my promise to restore the old entries from when this blog was running on dasBlog. I tried my best to make sure you people reading this through RSS didn’t get a bunch of duplicated posts, … Läs mer →

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The GNU GPL, modifications and swedish copyright law.

Postat den 31 augusti, 2004 av staffan

Yesterday, I was involved in a discussion that started with the Affero General Public License, a modification of GNU GPL, indented to close the ASP loophole in GNU GPL v2. The ”ASP loophole” referst to the fact that a Application … Läs mer →

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Wikipedia and authority

Postat den 31 augusti, 2004 av staffan

Ernest Miller has a great summary of ”The Great Wikipedia Authority Debate”. Essentially, this started when an unnamed librarian claimed that Wikipedia was not suitable as a information source, because it can be edited by anyone and therefore must lack … Läs mer →

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mod_rewrite, win32 and colons

Postat den 28 augusti, 2004 av staffan

I’ve been spending my evenings divided between frantically studying history and working on my new project. The latter is soon to debut on lagen.nu (but it will be in swedish only). In swedish law, all laws are uniquely identified by … Läs mer →

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Learning python… again

Postat den 21 augusti, 2004 av staffan

An interesting side effect of deciding to quit programming for food is that I’ve started to program for fun again. Since a set of laws is, at it’s core, just a gigantic set of large documents, much interesting stuff can … Läs mer →

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Back to school

Postat den 19 augusti, 2004 av staffan

As a part of my ongoing preparations to apply to law school next year, I’m currently studying the history of the world. In Sweden you can, if you find that your old school grades aren’t so good, do a general … Läs mer →

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The new project: Learning to drive

Postat den 18 augusti, 2004 av staffan

The first half of this year, my big Project was to run a marathon. That project eventually ended successfully (link to marathon race report forthcoming, as soon as I get it up), and so I went looking for a new … Läs mer →

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New directions and challenges

Postat den 17 augusti, 2004 av staffan

Well, about that blog writing hiatus. Since all you loyal readers have so obviously been waiting for new posts, I feel I should tell you why I was gone, what I’ve been doing, and where I’m going. Or something. I’ve … Läs mer →

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Back again!

Postat den 17 augusti, 2004 av staffan

After a two month hiatus from writing, and one month of actual downtime, this blog is back. The reasons for downtime are mainly various technical problems, most of them having to do with me wanting to host the blog on … Läs mer →

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