A short post in support of a very important issue. There are a number of legislations in the works at the moment to allow governments to pull down web sites at will. These are regressive and designed to control information and asymmetrically limit freedom of expression. Our particular Australian example doesn't even inform infringing parties of …
12-01-2012 1:13 am
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You may have noticed that there are no Facebook "like" buttons or Google tracking on this site.
There's no Gmail, Google docs, Flash nor Twitter. In fact everything on this site is hosted and run using free, open-source software (Debian Linux, Apache2, Postfix, PHP5, StatusNet and Habari to be exact).
17-10-2011 4:06 pm
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[R] is an excellent open-source statistics language. It's cross-platform and free and I think it will eventually displace proprietary stat's packages due to its rapid development, speed and ease of use. So there's no time like the present to get used to using it.
13-09-2011 7:03 am
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Today I'll introduce you to a wonderfully simple piece of software that should free you from using Powerpoint or other outdated presentation software. It's called Sozi.
07-09-2011 3:45 am
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Researchers at Cornell thought it would be a good idea to let two chatbots have a... chat.
The result is a little more than strange...
