As part of the 'Open Source', 'Slashdot', 'Linux' or what ever community we think of ourselves as being a part of, we need to be very careful to avoid elitism.

I've come across a very interesting book that sheds some light on what's happening right now in the USA. I hope that the mere American Flag at top of this article won't have the same effect like it had in my previous entry about the USA: it just attracted like a magnet two or three American patriots, bringing in fact one only argument: "we are the best, the greatest and you won't stop us doing what we want to do".

One year ago, by mid-December, I registered my dot-name address. I wanted to be the first to put hands on my name. By that time, I was clever enough not to give answer to those numerous spams of registrars wanting you to register your dot-name with them. I went directly to the ICANN to see which registrars are allowed to do that. Having heard of pseudo-registrars just wanting your money for pre-registering, I thought that would be a wise step. I still think it was. The

Struggling with my Dads computer the other day really highlighted what I've come to love about free software:

Everytime that monstrosity of a piece of software, RealOne Player, loaded, the machine would blue screen. Very bad. What's worse is that when you try and uninstall it, that also causes a blue screen, leaving me the task of manually uninstalling it.

But the problems we were having aren't really what I want to talk about.

Since the school I am teaching at is still using Windows (we're going to switch to Linux really soon now), I decided to use HTML-Kit as a preferred HTML editor (for my web classes).

If I was able to code programs that ran on Microsoft operating systems, it'd perpetuate their monopoly... I mean, if I was a good coder, people would want to run my apps/games and need an MS OS to run them.