Source Guru

Now, It’s probably obvious to anyone reading this blog what my thoughts on Open Source and Licencing are, so I won’t go into that. However, I’ve recently found a new author, who I’m liking a LOT.

His name is Cory Doctorow, and after reading some of his short stories, I thought I’d look into his longer stuff. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a fan of feedbooks.com – and, as an author who’s releasing his works under a Creative Commons licence, his stuff is also there.

I started reading one of his books called “Little Brother” (http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2466). I read the intro, and I was hooked.

It’s kind of hard to explain what I mean, so I’d suggest if you’re interested, goto the link above, and click on the PDF link, then read pages 4 through 12 (the introduction/foreword to the book) and you’ll see what I mean.

I’ll probably review the book once I’ve finished it (curled up in bed with my trusty eeePC), but from what I’ve read, and that intro, Cory Doctorow is fast becoming one of my favourite authors.

You can find more about Cory Doctorow, and his works at http://craphound.com/

Ok, so here’s my obligatory “Hello Planet Debian” and “I’m now a Debian Developer” post.

So, yeah, I’m now a Debian Developer – and have a shiny new email address. For those of you considering going through the NM process, or already going through it – don’t give up hope, you’ll get there eventually!

Thanks to all those who’ve helped me along the way.

In other news, I’ve been meaning to blog about a couple of sites for a while now.

First of all, is Feedbooks.com – a nifty little site with lots of ebooks to download. Including a lot of the classics. You can also publish books on there, but I haven’t got round to it yet. This is currently my homepage on my eeePC. I’ve setup the “custom PDF” to be a good size for the eeePC (152mmx91mm, 10px font, 5mm all borders) and have been reading some of the Doctor Who books on there (and actually not finding it that uncomfortable curling up in bed with.

The next site is Stack Overflow – I’ve mentioned this briefly before, but it’s a great site. A community driven Programming Q+A site. Kind of hard to describe, but go have a look, you’ll soon get the gist of it!

Anyway, I think it’s time to head to bed for me!