Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 28th, 2008
I'm reading on Slashdot that Metallica has decided to make as much money as Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead. They've decided to bypass the record companies and market directly to their file sharing fans.
But nobody has forgotten that Metallica was the first major band to side with the record industry's ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I frequently get the question abroad why we chose the name "Pirate Party", and this has also been the target of some criticism. Others have been more nuanced, saying that while it positively wouldn't work in their country, it might work in the Nordic countries.
That pirate parties are sprouting everywhere ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
I understand there is some demand for my presentation files from the keynote in Santa Clara. Myself, I'm looking forward to the video and will post a link here when it appears.
(This post disappeared for a while in a WordPress database crash, rendering the link from the MySQL conference pages ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Home from the MySQL User Conference and the Bay Area. Jetlagged to the back of the moon as usual (I really have a problem with jetlag) and trying to stay awake. Anyway, my keynote went well - from a short video clip taken by Zack Urlocker, I can see that ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Apart from being my first blog post in English (or at least, in the English blog -- I've written at least one well-noted post in English before), I'd like to make a plug for my keynote this Wednesday at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara, SF.
It's my Copyright Regime ...
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