Vilhelm satisfied and ready for the beach
Originally uploaded by groenbaek.
It is new year’s eve soon and we have left rainy and cold Copenhagen to celebrate the evening under varmer skies in Sharm El Shaik at the Sinai peninsular. It is kind of strange spending only 4,5 hours on a plane and then arrive in a very warm place that has only hour time difference from Copenhagen and the same short days. Happy new year to all of you!
Vilhelm and doppeltganger
Originally uploaded by groenbaek.
Jeanne, Vilhelm and I are spending a week at a resort in Egypt. Right outside the airport in Sharm El Sheik we meet Vilhelm’s almost identical twin: A little blond Danish kid at Vilhelm’s age (5 years), going to the same resort and with the exact same sleeveless superman t-shirt. It is no wonder that non Scandinavians often have a hard time telling one little blond kid from the other 
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Vilhelm and his cousin in front of the Xmas tree eagerly awating the time for attacking the presents.
Who is right here? The teacher or the student?
Piracy vs. Stealing: Teacher Fails “A” Student for Topic Choice: “Mark Frauenfelder:
Adam Brault sez: ‘Sixteen year-old Steve Geluso was failed by his English teacher for choosing to distinguish piracy from stealing in an essay.
‘Geluso, an ‘A’ student, recently completed an in-class exit exam for his Language Arts class. The goal of the exit exam was to write a comparative essay on a topic of the student’s choice. Being a student who enjoys a challenge, he wrote an essay contrasting piracy with stealing.
‘His teacher failed him, saying there was no difference between the two and that he was ’splitting hairs’. Other teachers who read his essay said that he did well from an organizational and technical standpoint, but because his teacher felt that there was no difference between piracy and stealing, she gave him an ‘F’ because she disapproved of the content of his essay.
‘Check out his several comments regarding this event on his low-fi weblog at http://steve.mathcaddy.com Steve’s scanned-in paper is available Here (Note the ‘Continue to Page 2′ link at the bottom of the page.)’
UPDATE: Mike Harris has an HTML version of the essay. He sez: ‘I transcribed it with errors and cross-outs, along with his teachers’ commentary. Useful for those who don’t want to go through nine large scanned images to read his essay.’ Link“
(Via Boing Boing.)
What many of us who believe in the superior properties of transparency and openness thought we knew all along:
Security research suggests Linux has fewer flaws: “Four years of research by a code-analysis firm finds that the latest open-source OS beats commercial software for quality.”
(Via CNET News.com.)
This finding by Forrester seems to point to the core of the spam problem: Spam pays because a large portion of the spam “victims” unfortunately responds!
One in five Brits ‘buy software from spam’: “Forrester’s astonishing estimate”
(Via The Register.)
The December 4th-10th 2004 issue of Economist has a good story on the democratization of surveillance. The story quotes David Brin who recently visited us here in Copenhagen and spoke about transparency.
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