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Joining the Blackout

I’m joining the Internet blackout today, and not just for my New Zealand friends who are combating this draconian copyright fundamentalism… I’m joining it because if this kind of legislation succeeds in New Zealand — who have a pretty good history of sticking it to The Man — it could succeed anywhere.
Here’s a great cartoon about the problematic legislation […]

Measuring Blackouts with Cacti

Every zero point on this graph — which represents the last two months of uptime on my laser printer (!) — is the result of a blackout.
The first was kind of disappointing. The rest have just been annoying: Getting up late with 05:14 flashing on the alarm clock, asking Pipka to set the time on the microwave (because I […]