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Hello, again. I feel like I’ve been neglecting you. It’s not from a lack of desire to post here, but lack of time. It seems like there is never enough time, and what time there is, I’m quite effective at whiling away. And then as more time passes, I feel like I need to post something substantive and meaty. But if you’ve been reading movingtofreedom.org, you probably know that I’m not really about deep thoughts. I’m more of a used-to-wanna-be intellectual. I think I’m still kind of a wanna-be, but I’m working on simply being who I am. So here is a post about this and that to keep things going.

I have been spending time reading and …

Metapost: So close, yet so far…

I was so close to having the next installment of the free culture publication series ready to post for you tonight, but it needs some work, and I need to go to bed and get up early for work tomorrow. Too many people know about this thing for me to call in sick on its account. :-)

Meanwhile, I have a new entry at Free Software Magazine. I’m much happier with this one over last week’s and hope you’ll check it out.

Thanks for visiting!

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Metapost

I’m stealing from the Comics Curmudgeon, although maybe he just stole the concept from someone else in turn. He differentiates his on-topic material (skewering the funny pages) from miscellaneous housekeeping chit-chat by labeling the chit-chat as metaposts. I like it as an early warning that you’re not getting the advertised goods. It’s hard to say what the topic of my blog really is, but this post just feels like a metapost.

This is mainly to comment on past and future posts. The past is this week’s Free Software Magazine blog entry, reprinted in the previous post. The future is that I’m working …

Standing on the Corner with Pamphlets in Hand

Welcome to my street corner. I recently listened to a speech by Eben Moglen called “Freedom and the Future of the Net: Why We Win.” It’s good stuff. Very interesting. I unfortunately haven’t been able to find a transcript of it, but as a value-added service to the MTF community, I transcribed this, where he is discussing how the “artificially large person” (e.g. Christina Aguilera) is manufactured for the purpose of selling things, and:

But all of this depends upon denial. Exclusion. You can’t have it unless you pay. And it’s not actually the

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Welcome to ‘Moving to Freedom’ BETA!

First post!

I was tempted to include with this post one of those lame “under construction” graphics from the early web days — animated, of course — in an equally lame attempt to be ironically funny. Of course any hint of humor would soon fade in to oblivion as the site proceeded to languish forever “under construction,” with just this one entry.

(I just checked and saw that I have an archived version of my first web site from late 1996. No yellow construction graphics but painfully bad all the same. Maybe I’ll host it here someday or throw up a screenshot if I’m in the mood for public shame and humiliation. I had advanced to new heights of sophistication with my second web site in early 1998: it had frames. I think this thing you’re reading …