Considering the approaching birthday of Kiva.org I thought I will post this little video here – I found it on causecast.org The full story of Uganda: A little goes a long way can be found on the website of Frontlineworld, and there you can find the full length video – but that site does not…
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Are you there?
Are you there? No, really? Ok, I want to ask you something. Minimize the feedreader, the e-mail client and tweetdeck. Done? Now maximize this window. Thank you. Ok, just joking, but, did you notice how much we “multi-task”? We are at so many place at one time that, well. we are nowhere actually. We read…
What can you learn from the Nac Mac Feegle
Image via Wikipedia The Wee Free Men. The Nac Mac Feegle. The ones who have been expelled from Fairy Land – after breaking up the place for the thousandth time. They steal, they drink, they fight, and are mortally afraid of their names being written down – ’cause of the lawyers you know. They are…
When you have nothing to lose, it’s time to take a risk…
For the last two weeks I have been lost in the new Yazix project I’ve wrote about here. My involvement became bigger than originally intended. It all started out with me giving some BA help, and writing about Yazix on the web, spreading the word thing, but in about 3 weeks I became the de…
Build for Kiva
Kiva has announced the new API at build.kiva. You can tell I am a bit behind, as their Introduced the Kiva API 5 days ago, but you know, better later than never. The Kiva API begins as a set of RESTful web services, focused primarily on the tasks of fetching public data from Kiva. They…
Sound of Copyright
The copyright term extension is going forward in Brussels despite fierce opposition from the representatives of consumer rights organisations in Europe – sort of shows if Brussels looks at the interest of the voter or the lobbyists. The ORG “Sound of Copyright” Conference that took place in the European Parliament last week is over, and…
A few links and sites of interest
I am currently in the middle of two blog posts – one is reviewing Trace Modeler, the other is about requirements – but these take time, plus I am working on a private project to build a contact managing application that does what I want, so in the meantime I just share a few interesting…
Write your own resume – review
Disclosure: Karen Swim is a friend of mine, she wrote my resume, and basically helped me with my job seeking last year. However, she did not ask for a review of the book, and I tried to be objective – I think I succeeded. So lets cut to the meat. Karen D. Swim released a…
Doubling the time – Copyright term extension
I have been following the new Term Extension Directive that is going forward in the European Parliament. What does it mean? Basically, they intend to double the term of copyright for sound recordings, extending it to 90 years – that’s about 3 generations. That would mean that a song written in 1960 will not go…
Application Security and Micro-financing
How comes OWASP, which is a community focused on improving the security of application software into the field of micro-financing? Ask James McGovern, who is a prominent member of both OWASP and Kiva, the micro-lending website. Well, one point of connection is the obvious, if you are a website dabbling into financial stuffs you need…