Blaise Alleyne

• No, Copyright Has Never Been About Protecting Labor | Techdirt by balleyne about 2 weeks ago
• The New Era of Big Company Forks - Bradley M. Kuhn ( Brad ) ( bkuhn ) by balleyne about 2 weeks ago

• Flickr Photo Download: css mess about 2 weeks ago
• Copyright Is An Exception To The Public Domain | Techdirt about 2 weeks ago
• The Toyota Recall and the Case for Open, Auditable Source Code - SFLC Blog - Software Freedom Law Center about 2 weeks ago
• django.vim - Syntax highlighting for Django templates : vim online about 3 weeks ago
• From bricks to the iPhone: 25 years of the mobile phones | Technology | guardian.co.uk about 3 weeks ago
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Other people's privacy about 4 weeks ago
• How to completely ditch GUI internet applications for the command line on Feb 10 2010 at 1:43 pm
• Free Software: How to eat that? | Red Costarricense de Software Libre on Feb 9 2010 at 4:57 pm

• balleyne committed 21dcae21 to patrack:
  Made some adjustments to Twitter search result formatting. on Feb 4 2010 at 8:18 am
• balleyne committed c47a5532 to patrack:
  Added support for Twitter Search. on Feb 4 2010 at 7:45 am
• balleyne committed 1b1927bb to patrack:
  Added support for Twitter Search results. on Feb 4 2010 at 7:15 am

Credit: exfordy [CC BY] My first computing experience was on the family computer, a 386 running Windows 3.1 in my parents’ den. It was truly a family computer—my parents used it for work, and the kids used it for games. A few years later, my parents moved to IBM ThinkPads with Windows 95 (vehicles for my [...]

Added second check for neutral title on FacebookPostedItems when no text is posted to accompany a link

Credit: William Hook [CC BY-SA] Honestly, I still have trouble convincing myself that the push by the record industry to implement a three-strikes-and-you’re-out (that is, three-accusations-and-you’re-kicked-offline-for-a-year) system is actually happening, that grown men and women running companies claim—with a straight face—that this will save failing business models. It’s just so ridiculous. But the IFPI’s recent claims [...]

Just hours before the iPad announcement yesterday, I wrote the following: When we think of mobile computers as merely “phones,” we tolerate restrictions that we would otherwise reject on our computers. How many iPhone users would come to Apple’s defence if they instituted the same strict policies and arbitrary limitations on third-party applications for a Macbook [...]

Credit: mackarus [CC BY] People keep asking me about my new “cell phone,” but the Nokia N900 isn’t a phone. It’s a handheld, mobile computer. Calling it a phone is like calling a house a bed—sleeping is just one thing you do inside a house. I became interested in the Nokia N900 in the fall, and after [...]

Added error check to make sure icon and link are not empty before attempted to combine icons on a multiple entry case.

• How to Synchronize Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts with Nokia N900 v1 ... on Jan 16 2010 at 12:14 am
• Graham on Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity | EconTalk | Library of ... on Jan 15 2010 at 3:51 pm
• Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over on Jan 11 2010 at 9:38 am
• How Outposts Improve Your Ecosystem on Jan 10 2010 at 1:10 am
• Artist Thinking vs. Lawyer Thinking | Techdirt on Jan 10 2010 at 12:52 am
• 10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About on Jan 8 2010 at 2:17 pm
• On Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL - Free Software Foundation on Jan 8 2010 at 1:55 pm
• How to say stupid things about social media | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk on Jan 6 2010 at 11:06 am
• Google Chrome Extensions: YouTube HTML5-ifier on Jan 6 2010 at 7:54 am
• Review: Nokia N900 | PhoneReport v2.0 on Jan 6 2010 at 7:49 am
• Native Audio in the browser | HTML5 Doctor on Jan 5 2010 at 8:27 pm
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• balleyne committed 3827556b to patrack:
  Added tags tables. on Jan 2 2010 at 5:07 pm
• balleyne committed 9d14a435 to patrack:
  Removed debug marker. on Jan 2 2010 at 4:53 pm

• Jimmy Wales and Andrea Weckerle: Keep a Civil Cybertongue - WSJ.com on Dec 29 2009 at 8:38 pm
• Common Laptop/Netbook Positions to Avoid - Laptops - Lifehacker on Dec 28 2009 at 11:32 pm
• Former Musician Now Lawyer Comes To Terms With What's Happening To His Music Online | Techdirt on Dec 28 2009 at 9:45 pm
• Google on “Open”: Myopic Self-Focus — Technology Liberation Front on Dec 23 2009 at 2:24 pm

Added override to 'time since' function to use plain old datestamp.

• From Word To Word » Blog Archive » Social Spectacle on Dec 16 2009 at 8:09 pm
• ComposeKey - Community Ubuntu Documentation on Dec 16 2009 at 12:14 am
• Awesome Music server = Your existing Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop + Ampache + Rhythmbox, Oh My! | NousEssence on Dec 15 2009 at 11:07 pm
• Getting The Music Business Over The 'But We Must Sell Music' Hump | Techdirt on Dec 14 2009 at 10:26 pm
• Four Questions for Technology from the Biblical Story | Don't Eat The Fruit on Dec 10 2009 at 5:43 am
• Commoner Letter #1: Eben Moglen - Creative Commons on Dec 10 2009 at 1:14 am
• Final Page on Dec 8 2009 at 9:19 pm
• SOCAN Tries To Keep Its Copyright Consultation Submission Offline And Secret, But Fails | Techdirt on Dec 8 2009 at 6:28 pm

This post originally appeared on Techdirt. We were just talking about how SOCAN, the Canadian copyright collection society, was going after gymnastics clubs for kids using music in their practice routines. Now they're getting some well-deserved attention for other antics. Michael Geist explains how SOCAN tried to keep its submission to the government copyright consultation secret. [...]