Pushing the limit

I spent this weekend in Kosice, second biggest city in Slovakia, which is located in th eatern part, so you can imagine. I had a nice apartment suite where I spent most of the time, since the weather was getting crazy cold with strong northern winds. I had a lot time to think, without beign disturbed by anything, I also slept like a 14hours a day without interrupt, this doesn't happen so often.

And now I'm home with clearer mind, with bare hands and I just seeded more projects into my life.
I registered freegov.eu, which from the start should be like a get together of news around EU related to open source, open standards and government. I read this news almost everyday, so why not share them and have them together somewhere, why not here?

Second one is a bigger pie, I was thinkin about this a lot, cos I was, or I am activist in the field of information technology and this one was slightly a different story. Still something I have in me for longer time, which is changing me, different angles of view, confused feelings and still unable to do something about it. I'm talking about the cause. I mentioned it couple of times here and there, but still it was mostly clouded in shadows, now it will be clearer.

earthcause.org. the underline is the cause of the earth

As I said, this is a really hard topic and project to say so, and It can literally beat the shit out of me. In this topic is everything, everything bad what I see in this world, it's not only technologies which opened my eyes, it's all the evil stuff we, the people of this earth our doing everywhere. To each other, to nature, to everything which matters more, and which needs to be preserved, protected and saved.

I learned a lot durring my life, a lot about how not to stand and look but go there, reach beyond and create what is missing. I'm glad I'm like this, but my attitude will eat me alive.

Next year I want to shoot, I need to shoot, with video camera, not with guns
and I need to snorkel, scuba dive, shoot underwater, shoot on the ground,
and share what I see, what my eyes receive and the links in my brain.
I need to create and share.

Itapa first day, first feelings

I'm siting a bit ex halted at home after the last two days of madness, there is still a piece of peace over the accomplishment today. I would say we as always rock with the amount of open technologies around ITAPA, one may say it isn't enough, I find that misunderstood. The problem is on the other side of government, over the river of citizens and boats of business.

You may find a clue in a small city of Banska Bystrica, which took pro-open source government edition, and are pushing, and deploying more and more. You may also see a clue over the IDABC project, the European Interoperability Network, the repositories or even more. And you can see a difference in agreement of a document standard structure in federal government of Belgium. All this benefits from the wisdom of the people involved, those who are closing the information and knowledge gap.

I see a huge gap, in the competencies, mostly in the knowledge of the key people, the gap consisting a lack of know-how and information about the world around us. Decision we make are consequent over the years, one must know.

Now I head over to the "private" party of ITAPA, in the Inn hotels network, hopefully maybe I rather fall a sleep :)

patent Bio-shock

Today I attended the EPO "Patenting biotechnological inventions in Europe" conference and I was a bit shocked by something new for me, such as biotechnology patents. EPO practice in granting and examining biotechnological "inventions" based on DNA reproduction, cloning, altered version of various seeds and/or plants or such. However if you look at the EPC, section Chapter V, Biotechnological inventions,

• biological material which is isolated from its natural environment or produced by means of a technical process even if it previously occurred in nature
• plants or animals if the technical feasibility of the invention is not confined to a particular plant or animal variety

well, it seems I'm going to put a lot more interest into these issues, since my involvement with EPLA in 2006/7 and CII directive back in 2004/5, I see a lot of similarities in this treaties, since the software patents or the biotechnology ones are just a consequence of bad patent system and lack of democratic control. The second problem is EPO itself, since in first hand they say No revival of software patents debate
and in other hand they are granting obvious software patents masked as technical one add a computer, and the EPO will give you software patents.

I don't find this really trustworthy and ethical at all, EPO is lacking democratic control, it's diplomacy is misleading, such as mentioned above and I'm just waiting when the decision makers started to see there is no place for such as EPO in the EU.

13% world already visited

I was just surfing arond to find a way how to map my travels, and the quickiest free thing avoiding to use google maps I found TravBuddy.com which only map visited countries, so it ain't the right one I was looking for, but still it's a start :)

next time I try to find something more interesting, like how many times I did travel somewhere, since this year I took around 60 flights, which I will find a bit insane and 10 more are planned until end of 2007, maybe even more...

ETQW linux client!

ETQW or Enemy Territory Quake Wars is a new sequel to Enemy Territory and Quake games, and they released a brand new Linux Client for their game just days ago... It's kinda bad, it wasn't included on the original dvd when I bought the game, well nobody is perfect, lets just be happy with ID Software.

ETQW Linux client download
ETQW Linux wiki

you still need the original DVD to install the game and for playing online you need a unique cd key...

If you play this game online at ranked servers and you meet character named dejavu, then you met me :)

Fore Word

I started this blog after a long time of thinking, to be exact it was more then a year. Today, out of the sudden, I just did it. I wanted to make a difference between my activist blog FreedomEurope where I publish relevant stuff and my work or better say involvement on open source, open standards, egovernment and education. This however will be a slight another world of me, where you can see some weird stuff.

First thing you probably notice is the Relative Thinkin of "some weird signs". These weird signs are katakana, to be exact it's my name in Japanese katana, because I started studying Japanese language earlier this year.

Jan (Ján) is ヤ ya - interprets the long á and ン n
Husar (Husár) is フ fu, サ sa + (-) interprets the long á and ル ru,
to be exact it's Yaan or Yán and Fusaaru or Fusáru.

It really doesn't sound like my name at all, but what you can do? :) Maybe I'll find a better way how to write my name in katakana, since this one was created by my Japanese teacher earlier this week. I still like it thou.. Some of my classmates had more funnier version of their name, since I cannot be so funny with my katakana version of my name, I try to keep it up with words.


What you can expect here?

I was thinkin about some hints and clueless stuff about my Japanese study, some open source stuff but not the one you can find on my other blog, movies, books, what I did, where I've been, how I felt... and maybe a little more, who knows I just started. You must realize that I was thinking a year about this blog, hope you get how much I missed to write the non-important, or less important then my crusades in Europe.

I hope you will enjoy a bit more about myself and I try to cut off some ego-trippin, but this will be about me, so live with it or close this tab and surf elsewhere.