Times Online Articles
In 2005 and 2006 I wrote a column in The Times Online called "Our Man From Mozilla", after the Graham Greene 調書をとる/予約する. It was focussed on 令状ing about 科学(工学)技術 問題/発行するs and events in a way which is accessible and 利益/興味ing to the public. I stopped when I worked out they weren't 支払う/賃金ing me anything like the going 率.
Update: the Times is now paywalled and so all of these articles are inaccessible unless you are a 加入者 (and might be even then; I don't know). Although at the time I tried to 交渉する a 株d copyright or an open license, they weren't really 利益/興味d in that, such things not having the profile that they do today, and me not having much clout. Let that be a lesson to all to not let your creative work 落ちる under the 支配(する)/統制する of others.
Having said that, I hope the Times' lawyers will not come after me if I 地位,任命する copies of my two favourite articles. I was 特に happy with "違反ing the 'Dam" and "解放する/自由な ソフトウェア? You can't just give it away".
2006
- 19th December: "When music gets out of 支配(する)/統制する" is a comment on the music 産業's 返答 to the Gowers 報告(する)/憶測.
- 30th October: "Open secret: how Firefox 2 was born" gives a peek into some of the 問題/発行するs which 直面する an open source 事業/計画(する) trying to make a splash.
- 2nd October: "Shortcuts to success" laments people's 不本意 to learn keyboard shortcuts to acquire greater 速度(を上げる) and 避ける RSI.
- 18th September: "解放する/自由な data - a 価値のある 商品/必需品" explains how natural 司法(官) and 経済的なs both 需要・要求する that 政府-collected data be 解放する/自由な to 接近.
- 5th September: "Searching for good usability" discusses Firefox's "Find As You Type" 機能(する)/行事 as an example of usability 革新 in 解放する/自由な ソフトウェア.
- 29th August: "解放する/自由な ソフトウェア that's trouble-解放する/自由な" 会談 about the 明言する/公表する of usability 工学 in the 解放する/自由な ソフトウェア community.
- 15th June: "The late '98" is about the 切迫した support end-of-life of Windows 98, and its 関わりあい/含蓄s.
- 30th May: "Why ソフトウェア can't 橋(渡しをする) the gaps" discusses why we don't build ソフトウェア in the same way that we build 橋(渡しをする)s.
- 17th May: "ソフトウェア is special" shows the uniqueness of ソフトウェア and therefore why it should not be patentable.
- 3rd May: "解放する/自由な the Beatles' walrus" argues against an 拡張 of the copyright monopoly on 記録,記録的な/記録するd music.
- 18th April: "Remixing the web" 最高潮の場面s 最近の 前進するs which 許す 使用者s to customise 場所/位置s to their own preferences, whether the owners like it or not.
- 6th April: "All a 事柄 of 信用" discusses how browser 製造者s can adapt their 製品s, and 使用者s their habits, to help 使用者s defend themselves against phishing.
- 22nd March: "Getting the world's poor logged on" is about the One Laptop Per Child 率先, and how the communication it enables is the most important thing.
- 8th March: "Splitting the root" is about the 本気で unfortunate consequences that would result if any 政府 or 裁判権 decided to break away from the 統一するd ICANN DNS root.
- 21st February: "解放する/自由な ソフトウェア? You can't just give it away" is an account of an amusing email 交流 I had with a 貿易(する)ing 基準s officer on the 支配する of 解放する/自由な ソフトウェア.
- 7th February: "The end of the (解放する/自由な) 麻薬を吸う dream?" is about the importance of the 原則 of "網状組織 中立" - that ISPs do not 差別する between different providers of a service.
- 26th January: "COMMENT: Microsoft grandstanding" comments on the real-world relevance, or さもなければ, of the 現在進行中の Microsoft/EU (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 合法的な 事例/患者.
- 26th January: "XSSively Dangerous" discusses the 危険s of Cross-場所/位置 Scripting (XSS) attacks on websites.
- 10th January: "Is 解放する/自由な ソフトウェア's 創立/基礎 石/投石する 割れ目ing?" discusses the 切迫した GPL 見解/翻訳/版 3 過程, and the 可能性s for discord that it entails.
2005
- 27th December: "Microsoft 罰金 could be a price 価値(がある) 支払う/賃金ing" 示唆するs that the €2 million per day 罰金 Microsoft may 結局最後にはーなる 支払う/賃金ing could be a 取引.
- 13th December: "The 戦う/戦い for Bangalore" contrasts two 最近の events in the city ーに関して/ーの点でs of the 戦う/戦い for the hearts and minds of legions of Indian ソフトウェア developers.
- 17th November: "Phishing with Screwtape, part II" is a second email I 設立する between the two phishers.
- 17th November: "Phishing with Screwtape" is an email I (機の)カム upon from an old 手渡す at phishing to a new 見習い工.
- 1st November: "違反ing the 'Dam" is about my trip to EuroOSCON and other events in Amsterdam.
- 18th October: "Open 判型s make history - and 持続する it" is about how the 決定/判定勝ち(する) of the 連邦/共和国 of Massachusetts to use OpenDocument is the start of a move に向かって people 埋め立てるing 支配(する)/統制する of their data.
- 4th October: "Cry Freedom" is about the difference between 解放する/自由な ソフトウェア and Open Source, and why it's important to the 普通の/平均(する) 使用者 同様に as programmers.