I’ve now updated the blog to the XHTML 1.0 Strict web standard. This means that it should appear more uniformly across different browsers.

If anything doesn’t appear to be working, please give me a shout.

One of my favourite quotes by Lawrence Lessig. While giving a talk about Free Culture, he said this,

Let’s talk about software patents. There’s a guy, Mr. Gates, who’s brilliant, right? He’s brilliant. A brilliant business man; he has some insights, he is even a brilliant policy maker. Here’s what he wrote about software patents: “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.” Here’s the first thing I’m sure you’ve read of Bill Gates that you all 100 percent agree with. Gates is right. He is absolutely right. Then we shift into the genius business man: “The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.” Excluding future competitors.

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So as i said before, i have managed to borrow a wireless modem while i’m moving house. However, due to the package i was on, it was going to cost £4 a day.

Previously, when moving house, i had used a T-Mobile wireless card, and only paid £1 a day. So i thought i must need a different SIM card for a different package.

I went to the local T-Mobile shop. Upon asking the person at the desk for a £1 a day SIM for a modem, i was told that i could either have a contract one, at £15 a month for 18 months, or a PAYG one, at £4 a day.