February 2011
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#DearJohn: An open letter to my representative
As you may have read about, there is a bill in the House of Representatives that is, apparently, the countries “highest legislative priorities”. This bill will deny vital medical care to many victims of rape and incest due to its introduction of the word “forcible” to differentiate between different levels of rape.
I don’t like to be open about my political standing,...
January 2011
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Putting it all out there
This weekend I finally finished a project [1. Well, got a project to the point where it’s usable by others] and made it publicly available. This is the first time I’ve put software that I’ve developed on my own out there and I’ve been running the gamut of emotions over it. I suspect the feelings I’m going through are something akin to a musician putting out an album,...
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Pushnote: All talk and no trousers
PushNote is a new service that will be known, for good or ill, primarily for being announced over Twitter by Stephen Fry, who is one of their investors. Similar attempts have been made in the past for a cross-site commenting platform, Google Sidewiki for example, and none have taken off. I really want a service like this to work as having a single point-of-entry for communication and discussion...
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Crying foul
I recently watched the Twilight movies and, having not read the books, and with no intention to do so, actually enjoyed them.
There, now that’s out-of-the-way, we can get on with the rest of this post. See, after I watched them, I wrote up a really long article defending the movies and arguing that the criticisms that are usually leveled at the franchise are, at best, easily dismissed and,...