Dr. Matt Lee (mattl)

Web standards, accessibility, free/open source software, old UNIX/TV/Music and occasional wargaming

LibrePlanet 2012 (2012)

I don’t like to mix work and personal stuff, but this is both. On March 24th/25th, we’ll be having another LibrePlanet conference in Boston.This will be the fourth conference, and I believe the largest so-far. It’s at UMass Boston, who have a beautiful campus and facility — so beautiful in fact we’re probably going to have future conferences there as well.We have a really impressive list of speakers: From the FSF: Bradley M. Kuhn, Brett Smith, John Sullivan, Josh Gay, Ward Vandewege, plus

New Order are touring? Not if you ask me. (2012)

This post is mostly for the benefit of Rob.The members of Joy Division had agreed before Curtis’s death not to continue under the Joy Division name should any one member leave the band.Wikipedia, New OrderIt’s a shame New Order never thought of this.If New Order is Joy Division without Ian Curtis, what do you call New Order without Peter Hook? Bad Lieutenant? Electronic? Not The Other Two, Revenge, Monaco, FreeBass, The Light… not even Be Music.Now, Gillian Gilbert joined New Ord