Barcelona: champions

FC Barcelona is finally champion of La Liga. It is certainly an accomplishment to have won 4 out of the last 5 championships. Yet this year has a sombre tone. The loss against Bayern 0-7 left much to be desired.

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Towards a census of free and open source licenses

During the last three years I have been attending the European Legal Network Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop. Because of the quality of people in attendance this is probably the best workshop/conference for open source licensing in the world.

This year I presented a talk called Toward a census of free and open source software licenses.

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This is the beginning of the world... again

I am tired of web-based blogging. I want to blog when I want, where I want–that includes not having an internet connection—and don't be forced to use any specific infrastructure to do it.

Why? because I like my editor. And every time I have to use a different editing environment I feel trustrated.

So here it goes again… a reboot of my web site. Well, it just has to happen every few years…

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NSERC Discovery Grants 2011 in Computer Science

NSERC has published the results of the NSERC discovery grant competition in 2011. NSERC only published the raw data, so with a little bit of initiative one can retrieve it and visualize it.

I had several questions about this data….

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Does the New York Times mock me?

This weekend I watched "The People vs Larry Flint". One of the scenes is:

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Illiterate: cultural shock

I got an envelope today, and "suddenly it hit me". I am totally illiterate. I can't even read my own name. I needed 10 minutes using the wikipedia to understand it (and of course I knew what it was!)

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