dPain / dt

This xkcd cartoon seems rather appropriate in my current situation.

Talk like Yoda tomorrow, will you

There's the internationally well known talklikeapirate-day, so be prepared for the soon-to-be-well known talklikeyoda-day.

Not sure how to talk like Yoda? Check out the HOWTO.

I know it's tacky, but it's a shame it's not May the 4th (as in may-the-forth be with you).

Philosophy

Imagine you bought something.

  • You rely on it with your business, with your very livelihood. Sometimes even with your life.
  • There is no warranty whatsoever on what you bought.
  • And you don’t know what’s inside the box.
  • Also, you cannot look inside the box, in fact, it is illegal.
  • You might not have have heard about the seller before and you have no particular reason to trust him.

Are you totally and irreversibly mad? How can you do it?! If you are not mad, aren’t you criminally negligent? Or just very, very, very stupid.

However, we all are. We all bought software at least once in our lives …

Anton Chuvakin makes an interesting point, and generally I agree with him - unfortunately it's also true for a lot of other products out there, from food to clothes. We might beable to infer what's not in the product - but that doesn't always imply that we know the opposite.

Traditionally developed, or closed source, software has it's place in the software landscape, just as much as openly developed software and we have no right to tell someone else that they're developing in the "wrong" way just because "we" don't agree with them.

Sadly it's posts like this, whilst perfectly written, that occasionally give outsiders to the open-source community the wrong idea for the very reason I've outlined above.

Anatomy of the last 5 days

  • Work
  • Shop
    • I bought myself some new clothes - spent loads more than I usually do, and came away with not much.
    • Discovered that Cribbs Causeway is crap.
    • My new Fuji s6500fd is awesome for the price
  • Castle Coombe racing
    • Went to see Tristan race, met him and saw the car, unfortunately my camera was dead by that point (damn batteries).
    • Got soaking wet
    • Got wind and sunburnt
  • Work
  • Released an updated version of luaLFS
  • Barely slept (again). Went running to combat this and discovered how unfit I am.
  • Setup Sulphur
    • I've migrated away from ValueServer.de to UK2.net. As much as VS.de was a good price, the occasional downtime was causing me to loose email - which was a shame. It was somewhat of a hard decision to make, as the price difference is reasonably significant.
    • As such, I've canceled Zinc, but I still have use of it until the end of the month. 2 LFS servers are currently running on it.
    • if your mail has been rejected, please try again - you should find that it goes through by now.

Spiderman 3

As a film-goer, I'd fully recommend Spiderman 3 for an hour or so of relaxation. As a spiderman cartoon and comic lover, I have mixed feelings.

To be honest, I feel that they tried to achive too much in one film. Too many subplots, too much typical inter-character struggle, rather than the focus of the struggle between Peter and Venom. I do love the cameo by Stan Lee, the and the humour with the enhancement of Parker's personality. I even love the twist(s) that we'd not really seen in the cartoons (I'm afraid the cartoons were primarily my spidey love, not the comics).

Overall it's a good film and completes the (current) trilogy well, but it's not what I've hoped. Here's to hoping Iron Man is better.