09 Apr 2006
I am procrastinating so hard right now. All I’ve gotta do is write a measly 500 words for an essay plan and it’s just so not happening. So I’m cropping and rotating photos. Have some cool sky.
And a pyramid rope thingy that looks like it’s on fire.
And a freaking huge piece of Jaeger Schnitzel.
We all ate way too much that night… the Schnitzel developed its own identity (or became a certain someone’s baby…) and much strangeness was had by all.
Slowly playing catch-up with content, here! Heh. I haven’t got time for Flickr I’ve decided… it needs to fill in descriptions for you as well! What is this Web 2.0 crap? I want omniscient AI already: it knows everything about my photos so I don’t have to. I’d pay for that…
08 Apr 2006
“It would be quite wrong if fictional writers were to have their writings pored over in the way DVC ( ‘Da Vinci Code’) has been pored over in this case by authors of pretend historical books to make an allegation of infringement of copyright,” Judge Peter Smith said in his 71-page ruling.
“Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about,” said Allan Adler, vice president for legal and government affairs at the Association of American Publishers.
“Copyright doesn’t protect ideas and copyright doesn’t protect facts. That’s why we have genres, fiction and nonfiction, and a number of people can write novels based on the same idea and still have freedom of expression.”
– Associated Press
There is no ownership of ideas. Common sense calls for attribution (which DVC gave anyway!), but an idea is ephemeral in the mind of one person alone: growth beyond that is required for it to survive. If ideas are of value (one presumes that they are), any notion of exclusivity is ludicrous and devaluing.
I am not, therefore, an irrational communist in this regard. I acknowledge value, but simply reject that same value is decreased by propagation/increase in supply/availability. Hence, I am an irrational capitalist.
07 Apr 2006
According to AS3760 – 2003, if you hire equipment out it needs to be re-tagged every three months (In addition to the obvious testing of everything before each hire). Still uncertain as to whether this is just dry hire or not.
*laughs at folly of world*
Or something.
03 Apr 2006
Xbox waterballoon challenge @ Coogee is going to be awesome. Twenty bucks for $150 worth of Xbox gear (guess they’re figuring people like me might actually buy an Xbox because of it — heh, more likely stuff’ll wind up on Ebay!), and you get to throw waterballoons at random strangers. What’s not to like?
April 22nd, 10am-1pm. They deserve viral marketing for this one, it’s bizarre enough!
03 Apr 2006
We aren’t hearing this every day, it’s not making lead headlines. It’s buried amongst other stories.
More than 200,000 people died in the [Boxing Day] tsunami but that toll will be dwarfed by the disaster that is about to engulf Africa.
However, unlike the tsunami it will not be a single, photogenic disaster to lure the world’s media. The arid lands will wreak a slower carnage.
So far, its victims are attracting a tiny fraction of the charity. And yet, unlike the tsunami, this disaster came with plenty of warning.
But it got published. Listen…