Archive for April, 2008

Now Playing: Metallica – Unforgiven.mp3

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 ...

Why the name “Pirate Party”?

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 ...

Slides from my Santa Clara keynote

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 ...

On fundraising

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 ...

Keynoting in Santa Clara this Wednesday

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 ...