The attendees of the PublicACTA meeting in Wellington this past weekend have published the Wellington Declaration, a statement of their position on whet should and should not be included in the ACTA negotiations.
Please read the Wellington Declaration, and if you agree go and sign the petition by Tuesday morning, 13th April, to ensure your signature is included on the Declaration when it is handed to the NZ Government negotiators.

Over Easter weekend, John McAllistar beat Scott Safran's 27 year old Asteroids high score, racking up 41,336,440 points over 3 days. John is already the world record holder for Asteroids Deluxe according to Twin Galaxies. John's Asteroids high score has not yet been verified by Twin Galaxies.
 
 
 
 
 
Source: Wired

Meh.

Ars Technica are reporting that the full ACTA text has been leaked. Just in time for the ACTA discussions in New Zealand in April. I have no time to look into this right now, so I may post an update later.

Apparently today is Ada Lovelace Day. I guess this makes it an ideal time to remember some of the women who have made enormous contributions to the IT industry.

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper immediately springs to mind as inventor of the compiler and the COBOL programming language. Rear Admiral Hopper was one of the original programmer of the Harvard Mark I in 1944. She continued contributing to the industry until her death in 1992 at the age of 85.

Another of my heroines of the computing era is Jeri Ellsworth a young and brilliant hardware hacker who created, amongst other things, the C-One reconfigurable computer and the C64 DTV TV Game. LifeHacker recently ran a series which included Jeri Ellsworth as "MacGyver of the day". Go read it and be amazed.