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About Me

PBX My name is Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using as much open source software as possible. From September to June I teach web design and other important non-photographic professional skills to photographers. In the '90s I wrote technology commentary and reviews for magazines, newspapers, and web publications, including Wired, Salon.com, FamilyPC, the late lamented Web Review, and the Chicago Tribune. Feel free to email me.

Book Project

I'm co-authoring a book, "Python Web Development with Django", with Jeff Forcier and Wesley Chun. It will be published by Prentice Hall in July 2008, but is available for pre-ordering on Amazon now.

Colophon

This site is built on a fresh trunk checkout of Django, running on Python 2.5.1, served by Apache and mod_python. The database is SQLite. The operating system is FreeBSD, on a VPS hosted at Johncompanies.com. Comment-spam protection by Akismet. Vintage topo imagery from the Maptech archive.

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Stuff I Use

Akismet, del.icio.us, Django, dpaste.com, Emacs, FreeBSD, Freenode, jQuery, LaunchBar, MacPorts, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, SQLite, Subversion, TextMate, Trac, Ubuntu Linux, wmii

A Django site.
(Finally!)

Copyright 2008
by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media

20 posts tagged "intellectual property"

Stallman Inside
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
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Steve Jobs to Music Industry: Drop DRM
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
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Songbird almost-0.2
Monday, October 16th, 2006
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International Freedom From Stupid Software Patents Day
Sunday, October 1st, 2006
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Goodbye, SCO
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
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"Free" music from Universal
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
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Yahoo offers DRM-free music, sort of
Friday, July 21st, 2006
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Xiph, Ogg, FLAC, et al.
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
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Songbird, open source competition for iTunes
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
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Unclear on the concept, installment #7,423
Thursday, January 12th, 2006
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Hopeful news from the USPTO
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
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Holy hot-headed hippies, Batman
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

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Texas Justice
Monday, November 21st, 2005

Sony DRM news roundup
Friday, November 18th, 2005
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Sony gets spanked
Sunday, November 13th, 2005
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The fall of Sony
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
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A modest proposal for the recording industry
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
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Burn all JPEGs?
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
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Magnatune works
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

DRM Explained
Monday, September 5th, 2005
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