Saturday, August 26, 2006
Ryanair finally sued the UK government for 3 million pounds for the air traffic disruptions, just like I called it! Now they only need to team up with British Airways (who demand their money from goverment’s BAA) and all the other affected airlines, so that the court doesn’t just dismiss it right away. Also it [...]
Thursday, August 17, 2006
If one really wants to make international flying perfectly safe (at least safe from terrorists masquerading as passengers), it is in fact very simple and quite cheap: * No carry-on or check-in luggage at all (all kinds of chemical, bacteriological or radioactive materials could be hidden there, for example it can be trivial to make [...]
I was just told that Steven Colbert is going to feature Latvia in it’s new sketch “Meet an ally”. On his show, he often does thematic multi-part sketches where he meets with all participants of some kind of group. The best example is his ongoing ’434-part series’ “Better know a district” that even earned a [...]
Pre-story: In Forestgate in London police stormed inside a house, shot one man and arrested him and his brother. After 10 days it turned out that no evidence of any gilt to them was found in the raid and the raid is only based on some secret intelligence. During the day when I was watching [...]
There is a transcript of RMS Turino speech up on Groklaw. So to follow up on my earlier thoughts about GPLv3 I will look at the transcript of RMS’s speech in Turin and write down what I think about it here, so I can refer to it later and maybe so that other people can [...]
Today is shaping up to be a very strange day indeed: 1. Today is my 23rd birthday and still I have no celebration planned as of now. Update: well now three separate parties that combine my bithday and my farewell parties together are planed all over this weekend. Fun. 2. Today my father had a [...]
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
After less then a month of talks I have been awarded a studentship in Cranfield University, UK. I will spend one year starting on using AI and genetic programming to solve the issue of “Automated evolution of textual adverts” as my Masters in Research. The studies will start on 10th of April, so the next [...]
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Blogging this week seem to be on a high wave for me. Which, as I previously noted, is correlated with my general level of activity. So this blob post is my braindump about 2006 Academy Awards ceremony a.k.a Oscars 2006. First of all – I love John Steward and watch “The Daily Show” daily. Opening [...]
Debian — News — Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released YAY!!!! The new chapter in the FLOSS history has been opened.
Ian Murdock’s Weblog » Open source and the commoditization of software Ian starts with a history of commodisation in computer industry and continues about how dangerouse is the tactic employed by RedHat (to redefine ‘Linux’ as a platform). In the end Ian describes the business model that is used at Progeny. I must agree with [...]
