Browsing Archive for April, 2007

Teaching mediocrity

Continuing on my quest for rant-Nirvana, here’s another rant. This time — and not for the first time –, I’m focusing on university.

As previously stated on this very blog, I feel university is pretty much useless — and mind you I’m referring to my field: computer engineering, but it could be easily applied to most [...]

On pirating

I think I’m currently in rant-mode, so here’s another one. ;)

We all know CDs cost money, software often costs LOTS of money, DVDs aren’t certainly cheap and on and on. Yet, this isn’t a good excuse to illegally download this stuff from the Internet.

Many of the people I know who download music, software or [...]

Attack of the Copycat

Every now and then I’ll feel a bit guilty for stopping regular activity on this blog, but then it occurred to me that most of the regularly updated blogs are just re-publishing old news.

Today is a perfect example of this: how many people wrote about EMI and Apple’s recent announcement about DRM-free music on the [...]

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