Update

Hey

I haven't updated since April, mostly because I've had little to report, and I'm feeling a bit down that I have been out of 9ja over 6 months now.

I've been making notes on some blog posts I'd like to do, and hopefully those will come out over the next few days. I've also been working on the new template for this blog. I've worked out a colour scheme I love, and now I'm just piecing together the CSS file so that everything will look, great. Should be ready any day, given enough free time.

Personally things are looking better for me, I have some work here in the UK. Nothing particularly challenging to be honest, just lots of driving around and lugging computer bits about, but it pays reasonably well. I'm still on the look out for the perfect job.

I have been continuing my OU studies and I have to say T209 is the most difficult course I have done yet. I am not enjoying it, yet I know I am learning some valuable skills in report writing and reading technical documents. I'm also trying to learn speed reading, because of the vast volumes of material I have had to read, but so far I'm not much better. My other course, M256 is going great.

Sad to see some Nigerian bloggers (Nkem and Chrome) have taken the red pill. Let's hope they find their way back here soon.

Remember this number

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

It is, apparently, the encryption key required to decrypt HD-DVD and Blu-ray content. Hmmm expect lots of 20GB Torrents soon.

See: How it was done.

The IceWeasel cometh

Debian have just finally published Iceweasel to their servers. Iceweasel is the Debian version of Mozilla Firefox, due to a trademark of the Firefox name and logo Debian have had to modify their slightly different version of it to now change the name. Iceweasel was chosen as the name, I don't know why, but as some bloke once said:

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;"

The amount of hostile words and frankly utter rubbish that have been spewed forth by the blogging community about Iceweasel is quite mad. The way I see it, Debian's Free Software Guidelines, the guiding principles of the whole debian community, forbid the inclusion of any software material that is restricted in its usage, which rules out the use of Mozilla's Logos and artwork. Simple as that. Mozilla previously agreed that debian could release Firefox without the artwork and still call it Firefox, but have now changed their mind and insist that to use the Firefox name, the logos and artwork must be unaltered. Leaving Debian one option if they wish to include firefox in some way. Mozilla's policy is perfectly just and right, the corporate identity of Firefox is very important and must be closely guarded. So the Iceweasel fork was created. This current idea is the only 'right way' to proceed.

Calling it a fork seems a bit over the top to me, basically it's just the same patches that debian would have always applied to Firefox, with an additional patch that changes the name of the software to IceWeasel. They are not planning to go ahead and take the software in another direction, which is what forking of software usually implies.

So anyway. Iceweasel/Firefox 2.0. It's great isn't it? Who would have thought that spell checking would be such a useful tool in a browser? The new Tab features are great too.

Expect a higher standard of SPaG from my posts from now on.