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Brendan Quigley
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e-Petition against Software Patents
An e-Petition to the British Prime Minister "to make software patents clearly unenforcible" is currently gathering signatures. Software patents are, in my opinion, a very bad idea, not least because they are a weapon with which proprietary software companies can unjustly attack open and free software developers. You can find out a lot more at the Software Patents page at Wikipedia.
The petition can be found at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/softwarepatents/. It is a simple matter to sign it and confirm your signature, so I strongly urge you to do so.
Blue/Orange
I was lucky enough to catch this - again completely by chance - on BBC4 the other night, and again I was blown away by the sheer brilliance of it. Blue/Orange follows a consultant, a doctor and a mental patient over two days in a London-based psychiatric hospital. It is extremely powerful on the screen and I can only imagine what it must be like on stage (will be keeping eyes peeled...).
As can sometimes happen with the interweb, I went to the IMDb page for this film and read the review, only to realize at the end that I'd written it! as 'bqallover' :) Oh well, with that in mind, I'll just post some links and be done. Regrettably, still no DVD...
Blue/Orange @ IMDb | Blue/Orange @ Wikipedia | Blue/Orange (the paperback) @ Amazon
LugRadio Live 2006 (Over Now!)
This happy event is only round the corner and as part of the 'pimpathalon' I urge you to GO! Even if I can't :(. For those not in the know, LugRadio is a fortnightly podcast devoted to all things Linux and open source in general. It is delivered by four witty and filthy-mouthed gentlemen who live in or around Wloverhamptom, here in the UK. I can safely say it's the best podcast of any sort I've come across, though you may have to be a bit of a techie to fully appreciate it. :). Check out the lineup for this year's get-together at LugRadio Live 2006. It really does promise to be an amazing open-source software event.
Site Update
Just in the process of updating the site with a spiffing new Pivot system. Please bear with me - hopefully it shouldn't take too long!
