Adrian's Soapbox

OK. Occasionally I get worked up about things. Some of them are even important. And some I feel so strongly about it I even write something on topic. For example:

Oh, and by the way, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act is evil. But don't just take it from me, read the website! Yes, I'm Australian and this law is American, but I think this issue concerns everyone. Besides, we have our own version anyway...

Verisign sucks. Here's why. I didn't write this, but Duane Wessels (of Squid fame) did.

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

-- Charles Babbage

Adrian Close <adrian@close.wattle.id.au>