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Archive for July, 2009

The new Digital Katana blog

Posted: Thursday, July 30th, 2009 @ 11:33 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

For those who follow the other side of things on my infrequent musings, my software bits, I’ve moved the Path of the Digital Katana to my new website at www.digitalkatana.ca/Blog. More of the Computer industry bits and commentary are going to be there moving forward. The fun, the society, the CRTC and open access items [...]

test Post

Posted: Monday, July 27th, 2009 @ 10:36 pm in Commentary | No Comments »

Just a test to see if the html lossage is MarsEdit or the blog or WTF say AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH with me now

ACTA – pay no attention to the lobbyists behind the curtain

Posted: Sunday, July 19th, 2009 @ 3:44 pm in Commentary, Society | No Comments »

The governments have as much power as we give them. We should all be concerned that the worldwide treaty of ACTA – Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is being done behind closed doors. Closed to the public, to the people who put our governments in power, but not to corporations and lobbyists from industries that continue to [...]

License count at Google Code

Posted: Monday, July 6th, 2009 @ 8:58 pm in Commentary, Tech | No Comments »

In trying to better understand the license popularity and choices being discussed over at Daniel Jalkut’s blog I did a quick search with Google Code’s search tool, merely selecting which license a project uses and noting the estimated total of files with that license included in their hosting project base. The results are interesting in [...]