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BSA in Czech Republic need to be pointed at

The Czech Republic Ministry of Finance And the BSA came up with this brilliant idea (ok that is a scarcastic comment):

http://www.abclinuxu.cz/clanky/mfcr-bsa-open-source?page=1

No tax relief on hardware bought without software on it. I don’t know about you but I try to buy “white boxes” as they used to be called, that is hardware built to my spec with no software on it, why because I use GNU/Linux.

Why, not just as a hobby, where I work we save in excess of a hundred thousand euros because we can, by not paying Microsoft for their software and using as a viable alternative GNU/Linux.

Where I am it is not an IT or Web company, it is a service company with people doing administrative work and one IT person, me. We manage lots and do almost all of it with GNU/Linux, it really is that simple. Why do we have any Microsoft software at all? Because some external suppliers require it, because they are not neutral in the way they build web sites, yuk.

However they are few and far between. At least we have some competitive advantage in that we can claim these expenses. I hope the person who made that decision in the Czech republic ends up understanding what they are doing to their own economy, piping money out for no internal gain, great trick if you can do it.

enjoy Laurie Taylor’s exploring music and culture

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy05

A nice handle on appropriating culture for purposes other than the creators may have intended when they developed the “conversation”.

(good evening sweden )

Saturday’s Game Play

As humans we play as small children, and get interrupted by work, and play becomes something we do in our spare time.

As John Dawson pointed out Saturday during a session with actor Andy Crook, as we grow older we reverse the proportion of work to play, unless you do some very rare jobs. Anyway I attended this http://www.actortrainingireland.ie/actor-training/workshops and although I am anything other than an actor or dancer (way too big for the latter and not enough training for the former), the “Playpen” which was in Studio 54 was great craic. It appealed to performers from various discipline’s, allowing them to explore some play and movement based works in a way that was very enjoyable.

Play is vital to your humanity, and these guys got people back into the habit of doing things that were fun in a “safe” environment, without judgement. The battle cry of the day is “THERE IS NO WRONG” just other places to go or start from.

Lots of exercise, focusing on being flexible in both the physical and mental capacities. From what I saw everyone there enjoyed it.

Step one on the road back to practicing a bit of improv, need to get some things out of the way, I guess I’d be up this kind of thing on a semi regular basis en route.

This video by Dr Stuart Brown in the TED Video archive may enlighten you with regard to why you too should look at relearning to play.

Facebook gets to be in a great joke.

I hope I phrased that right.

http://xkcd.com/743/ the way facebook does you!

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Deface yourself to remove yourself from facebook!