When I was browsing my feeds earlier today, I came across a Slashdot story on a talk called “Software and Community in the Early 21st Century” by some guy called Eben Moglen. I’ve just finished the hour long video and I highly recommend watching it. Moglen is a law prof at Columbia University and works with the Free Software Foundation. He talks about the role software will play in the very near future in equality and social justice across the world. (more…)

Wow, this Free Software and Open Source Symposium held by Seneca looks really interesting. Looking at the workshop list and symposium agenda, it looks really interesting, and it’s only $10 (unless I want to go to a workshop). Unfortunately, it’s on a Thursday and Friday and is right there during midterm season. Darn.

Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Daily Random. Within this pseudo-publication, you will find the finest selection in high quality random. There will be none of that boring drivel about the lives of the authors here. No, friend, only those random things that could not warrant a post on their own will be collected into one giant article, so as to provide some justification to writing about them.

The Daily Random will be published regularly based on the scientifically proven and very reliable “whim” of the author. You may expect to read The Daily Random in good old random fashion. That is, a publishing can happen at any time. No one knows the time or date, except for the FatherHe’s omniscient, of course He’d know. Yeesh.. (more…)