Hisso Hathair

Oh man, I clearly did not  want to write this post. This one has been a long time coming. Part of the problem is that Registered Desig...

A while ago I started playing around with a new way of debugging web apps. I basically piped the HTTP stream through UNIX pipes, using a c...

[The article below originally appeared in another publication -- I think I wrote it about 10 years ago. I've made some updates and dec...

Of all the regulatory systems that get lumbered with the umbrella of “intellectual property”,   Trademarks is the one with the oldest his...

Veins of the Upper Arm Yes, it's that time of year when I like to go into hospital and have a rib removed . For the curious: P...

You have to feel a little sad for Filippo. He was an amazing artistic , engineering and architectural genius. He was revered in his own ...

You will forget that you promised yourself you'd do real work this morning before checking your dozens of inboxes. You will forget ...

It feels like it's becoming impossible to shock anyone any more, although not from lack of trying . Even the Catholic Church is slow t...

I had a few posts here titled "rough cuts." They were essentially unstructured drafts that were just brain dumps. As such they se...

There is no such thing as intellectual property. Richard Stallman is probably the best known person who has made this argument. Stallman...