: Letter to the US Department of Commerce on Exporting Linux to Iraq. Why can you ship a proprietary OS from the US to Iraq, but we can't send Linux? The Silicon Valley Linux User Group asks for much-needed reform in the regulations, with the assistance of Roszel Thomsen and Toni Paytas of Thomsen and […]

all in all, today has been a fairly good day. Around noon I got the email from the bank telling me that my car loan was approved. I already knew what i wanted to buy, so i gave them a call. it's a no haggle deal from enterprise, a 2002 GMC Sonoma SLS 4×4 with […]

Bloggers Converge on World Summit. Bloggers Converge on World Summit DailySummithttp://www.dailysummit.net/ Highway Africahttp://www.highwayafrica.org.za/hana/ OneWorld TVhttp://tv.oneworld.net/tapestry?cluster=21 Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidthhttp://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ Last week's World Summit on the Information Society was covered by bloggers from around the world, using articles and streaming media to capture summit events. DailySummit.net, an online collaboration of British and Arab journalists, reported […]

Open access plea at WSIS. David Dickson, WSIS hears plea for open access, SciDev.Net, December 11, 2003. Excerpt: “Delegates from 176 nations attending the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) have heard a strong plea that they should support campaigns to secure open access to scientific information….'It is clear that open access is going […]

WSIS – better late than never. First off, apologies that the guest blogger I’d promised, Gus Hosein, didn’t manage to post. Gus had trouble logging in from Geneva, and as he’s no slouch with IT, I put it down to the dodgy wireless connections at the conference. (and yes, it’s pretty wild that a World […]

Range of opinion on OA at WSIS. David Dickson, The challenges of 'e-science', SciDev.Net, December 15, 2003. Excerpt: Everyone, in his or her own way, is in favour of the widest possible access to scientific information; that is not in dispute. What is, however, is the terms and conditions on which such access should be […]

More on the WSIS endorsement of OA. Today's CORDIS News has an unsigned note on the WSIS endorsement of open access. [Open Access News]

WSIS – the road ahead. Ambassador David Gross, head of the US delegation to the recently concluded World Summit on the Information Society, expressed satisfaction with WSIS's outcome when IDG News Service interviewed him in Geneva. He was particularly pleased about the deflection of calls… [InternetPolicy.net]

waterhole dreaming. Good heavens. I have only just discovered Soul Food Cafe. Thanks to Bonyton What a fine site. What an innovative… [Junk for Code]

A history of the Internet. It's history night. Here's one version of the history of the Internet…. [IDblog]