Cool: That it is small. That Apple’s speech synthesis now does a passable Swedish voice. Not so very: That you, too, can now get the unfettered Stephen Hawking-grade UI experience. That you are now confined to the Apple headphones (there’s a good model… which costs as much as the i...

Yesterday, the Washington State Senate and House of Representatives passed two resolutions formally honoring Penny Arcade, Child’s Play and Gabe and Tycho. These guys have been in court over getting their book rights back from the guy who tricked them, have taken down a perfectly legitimate pa...

There was one thing I wanted to stress about the, well, totally fucking batshit insane IPRED directive. I’ve already mentioned how major industry organizations can maintain databases containing personal information otherwise considered private without regulation, forcibly extract the matching ...

I promised I’d report more on the Swedish implementation of the optional to implement IPRED EU directive. I stopped last time because I was getting seriously depressed. I just read a good summary of what’s going to happen to you if you’re targeted, and the list (and only the list) ...

Visual Studio 2010 won’t look like crap. It may still in large parts work like crap, but the workspace area coloring here is pure art. I’ve been waiting for expounding ever since I saw the first sneak peek. I also dig the neat, rounded-corner bevels and the yellow frame highlighting the ...

The Swedish parliament passed a law implementing the EU directive IPRED today. It was an optional EU directive, so they didn’t have to, but they did it anyway, the bastards. IPRED stipulates that any rights holder may, as long as they can produce cursory evidence, retrieve the personal informa...

Something hit me in the pit of my stomach last week as Miguel de Icaza previewed MonoDevelop 2. Actually, several things did. First, Mono is really growing up. It’s true that it doesn’t implement all of the newest framework features. And it’s true that it’s not very welcoming...

There has been heated debate in the comments regarding previous posts about The Pirate Bay and the ongoing trial. I thought it only fair to start looking at something that’s been a common concept — if TPB wants to be a neutral or legal site, can’t they just monitor everything? This...

The third day of the The Pirate Bay trial has now passed. What’s happened since the first day? Yesterday, IFPI dropped part of the prosecution. The half that was dropped was the charge of being an accessory to producing copies; the charge that’s still there is that of being an accessory ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated with the movie Three Faces of Eve. Incredible to me that three people could exist in one. Back then, it was called Multiple Personality Disorder. Now it's called Convergence. I'm finding it takes way too much energy to keep up separate identities. And doing so no l...