The Goldfish Chronicles

I’m beginning to become a believer that we need to sort things out in Open Source land regarding trademarks. Namely that projects should be put together in the following way:

<BRAND> <PRODUCT>

Such as Mozilla Firefox. If Microsoft were to fork Firefox they would call it Microsoft Firefox (or optionally they could call it Internet Explorer, IceWeasel or Nancy for all I care).  Product names should be open, brand should be closed.

This allows the success of Linux. So something generic along the lines of: http://www.linuxmark.org/linux_sublicense.php and http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy.

Otherwise the shift to decentralized style development is full of fun. One git fork becomes more successful than another and - bang - an argument starts about the need to change the name because it’s no longer the core product.

Your smile dazzles, your eyes sparkle,
I’ve never seen your face.
Your laughter trickles, your voice beckons,
from an absent place.
Your person spins, and spins and spins,
never keeping with one form.
Your name brings forth a grief in me,
that is still sunshine warm.

Finding English sausages in the US at long last. Went to a different grocery store the other night to scout it out, and they had them sitting there (Top Food and Drug in Shoreline). Two nights of bangers, mash and beans later and I’m as pleased as punch.

Which is more than can be said for the screaming child who’s meant to be asleep.

I thought this was a nicely done site:

* Country data/Google/World Bank projects Mashup

(BBC article)

“[In the UK] we’ve got this one-eyed Scottish idiot [Gordon Brown]. ” says Jeremy Clarkson [TV presenter].

“How dare you call him one-eyed!!!” British media/public figure outcry.