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Australian Rules

By escrubb | Published: 16.02.2010
I’ve been noticing more and more that the FOSS community in Australia is pretty vibrant. It may be selective reading, but many of the blogs I end up reading, conferences I read about, etc. are based in Australia. This is just a backdrop for me dropping the following link about the recent DDOS (denial of [...]
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Post 2012…

By escrubb | Published: 01.02.2010
When I was 7, I was taken into a special class where we were asked to make predictions about 2040. The only thing I remember is that I thought that there would be flying cars and moving sidewalks. That was also the first year that I interacted with the green terminal of a computer. I [...]
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munyurangabo

By escrubb | Published: 29.01.2010
Since we’ve been reading the Appadurai, I thought I’d mention a film. My friend is a (very good) film director, and he made a film that, well I don’t want to say is ‘about’, but takes place in, Rwanda, post-genocide. It’s name is Munyurangabo. I worked with this director on another film, named ‘Lucky Life’. [...]
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