1. We are people of tech.
2. We live and work everywhere.
3. We value our own freedom, the freedom of people who use our technology and freedom in general.
4. We think there is no meaningful distinction between WikiLeaks and the news organizations covering the stories in cooperation with WikiLeaks.
5. We urge all governments to respect freedom of the press, whether the news originates online or offline.
6. We apply these principles in our work and they are embodied in our technology.
Hilarious cartoon exposé about the true dangers of having a wifi device in your home. Be Afraid! Be very afraid!
I find this recommendation page from Amazon to be eerily accurate, and quite hilarious all at once. Perhaps the briefest of characterisations of my mind in a long time.
For the past 4 months I’ve been working to get a book out on wireless networking.
Together with some of the smartest, most passionate people i’ve ever had the pleasure to work with, and lead by experienced technical book author and editor Rob Flickenger, we’ve completed the book. It’s called “WirelessNetworking in the Developing World”, and it is a free book released under
a Creative Commons license.
More info is available at: http://wndw.net/
and: http://dk.wndw.net/ (Danish Mirror)
And the Press Release
From here.
Last night around midnight I was chatting with Ethan, friend and fellow bacontarian, and he notified me of his latest post to bacontarian.
It is an attempt at unifying the concept of bacontarianism with the new and fastly expaning religion of pastafarianism (the belief that the world was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster).
He submitted the post, and then proceeded to let our friends at boingboing know about it. Which of course is a perfectly sane thing to do.
Let me stress this, the problem is not with Ethan’s actions, but with the little known fact that the server running bacontarian.com (as well as this site) is an ancient 1GHz machine running OpenBSD out of a small basement room underneath our office. It runs a good 50 domains for web, as well as delivering mail for about 20 people, and is connected to the internet through a community fiber network here in Copenhagen. It’s obviously not built to be boingboinged.
Long story short. I pretty much knew that when I got up this morning, the first thing I’d have to do would be to bike to the office to give the little beast a kick.
And I did,
and it’s back up
and i hope it stays up for a while…..
a lot has happened in the year since I last blogged regularly. I I honestly expect most of my readers to have been shaken off by the 1 year hiatus, and the finality of my parting statement.
But that’s fine, because then I can go back to blogging for an exclusive readership of me and my invisible friend.
I thought I’d start off with an update on what’s been going on outside my professional life over the past year.
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After a years hiatus from blogging, I’ve decided it’s time to pick up this beast again. Mostly, I miss this opportunity to break wind in public, tell my international friends a little about my thoughts, and generally just procrastinate for half an hour every few days. I hope someone out there will enjoy at least one of my posts.
Well mine wasn’t. I don’t think i’ve ever wanted that, in fact i’ve often shied away from it, during the dot-com heydey, and consciously chosen the boring default. I’m not sure why exactly, whether it’s sharing a name with the unbelieving apostle, cowardice, conveniene or just high resilience to bs.
It doesn’t really matter after all, the point I wanted to make was that I never dreamed of being my own boss, i would have been contented working for other people all my life. in fact I think I would mostly prefer to be part of a team, with limited responsibility for having to make it all make sense (and money).
Yet here I am, running a small non-profit with Sebastian. Responsible for my own destiny, our success, and a lot of other high-brow things. It just happened this way. I found the ideal business in ict’s for the developing world, in which i had more fun, more fullfillment, and more interesting challenges in 3 month than i would have in a year of web agency, dot-not mayhem. I knew that that was what i wanted to work with, and i took the only path that presented itself to me. being my own boss.
It’s haunting me now. I can’t help but feel misplaced in so many ways. I can’t help but dream of having a regular job, with colleagues, limited responsibility, and the ability to run away screaming if it all becomes too much. Perhaps that’s really what it is, a fear of being trapped. trapped in a construct i invented, trapped in a job that i don’t really want, but can’t run away from, because that would be running away from myself and my dream.
i think that’s probably a large part of it. it’s a responsibility i never wanted, but having taken it upon myself, despite this fat, i need to deal with it or find a way out that leaves at least a few bridges standing.
About 9 months ago, Signe and I planned a 3 week vacation in April to go visit our very close friends in Vancouver, hike, kayak and generally recover from what I was expecting to be a fairly exhausting winter of work.
instead it has been a fairly exhausting winter of travel, with quite a few health problems mixed in for good measure. I feel like I haven’t had a full work week at the office since early december, and it’s not really a feeling i relish, since there is so much to do, and we are finally getting somewhere with oyur own projects here.
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