Joachim Breitner: Parody song „Another year at university“
The list of parody songs on my web site just got a bit longer: I changed the text of Phil Collins’ „Another day in paradise“ to „Another year at university“, about a girl failing a math test. It’s not really funny, but the original wasn’t either.

Russell Coker: I’m an Aspie
I’ve recently been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome (AS) [1]. Among other things this means that I am genetically predisposed to have an interest in solving technical problems and give lectures about how I solved them, but that I tend not to be a “people-person”. AS is generally regarded as an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), but there is a lot of debate among the experts about the exact relationship. Some people (such as the psychologist who assessed me) believe that AS is a synonym for High Functioning Autism (HFA), however one theory I’ve heard is that HFA people are more sensory oriented and Aspies differ by being infor

Andre Luis Lopes: A new $HOME for this blog
I wanted to let my readers know that I migrated from my previous hosting to a new one. There was nothing wrong with the previous one, but I wanted to go out shopping for something cheaper and still as reliable. Lots of friends gave me good recommendations for Linode and the price was tempting so I thought : “Why not ?”.  The most noticeable advantage, apart from the price reduction, was the speed improvement, as I got myself a more powerful VPS and then now I have more room for new experiments. Later I also noticed some little but very welcome improvements. These are just minor details, but

Benjamin Mako Hill: Mr. Postman
The mailbox in my building is broken. Nobody can remember it being any other way. The lock is busted so anyone in the building can get access to every apartment's individual boxes in the same way that the mailman does. It's not a huge problem since there are only four apartments in the building and the box is behind a locked door to the street. I saw the mailman come one day to deliver mail. He used a key to unlock a box on the outside of the building from which he retrieved a key to first unlock the outside door and then another to "unlock" the mailbox. Every day, my mailman unlocks a mailbox that is always unlocked and, in fact, unlockable. As far as I can tell, he's been

Romain Francoise: Zeya: your music, anywhere
The 0.3 release of Zeya is now available in unstable. If you haven't heard of it, Zeya is a web music player that brings your music to any <audio>-capable browser like Iceweasel/Firefox or Google Chrome, turning your collection into a personal