Today's stumbled-upon word: jeroboam (n.) three-liter bottle of champagne. Happy New Year! http://t.co/E5C36pUy

Today's stumbled-upon word: discombobulate (v.) confuse, disconcert, frustrate. http://t.co/CJJ13Ffs

The Asahi Soft Drinks company installs and stocks thousands of vending machines across Japan. It has decided that in future new vending machines will come pre-installed with the kit necessary to act as a Wi-Fi hotspot. In so doing, anyone within 50 meters of a machine will be able to connect for free and surf the web. The only limit seems to be an auto cut-off after 30 minutes, but you can just re-connect if you need to.

In the debate about the American “Stop Online Piracy Act”, some have hailed the decade-old American DMCA as a law that was somehow beneficial for the development of new services on the net. This is not only a complete misconception, but a very dangerous one at that. The DMCA was basically a wet dream come true for the copyright industry, and the “safe harbor” provisions have gradually shifted the environment to suppress free speech and expression in favor of the suppressing industries: the copyright industries.

@Johan_Groth Tack, god jul!

Since yesterday, our family in #Fukushima are officially living in their temporary house. They were the very last evacuees at the hotel.

Few people have the chance to watch a shy young man grow into a ruthless dictator -- and live to talk about it. But, for one North Korean professor, Kim Jong Il is much more than the man holding his country hostage. He's a former student.

Today's stumbled-upon word: diffident (adj.) shy, timid; lacking self-confidence. http://t.co/028FKQ9F

Big Music is suing #Grooveshark. Makes sense. They can't allow there to be a music streaming service that doesn't suck, can they?

Measuring both unit and integration test coverage at the same time in Sonar: trickier than expected. Works now, in time for the weekend.