Tim Dobson's Blog

For a long time getting people to use free software specifically, to move to a all free software desktop has been tricky.
Many people have been extremley unwilling to not have Adobe Flash installed on the machine they are using.
This software is of course proprietary software however many people feel that their daily dose of Youtube could not exist without it.

Do you know your permissions?


Moral: If you aren't a techie, you won't get it.

I have been using Last.fm for a long time now, but I have always avoided StumbleUpon because I have been lazy and presumed that I wouldn't want it.
Today I installed the Firefox extension to see what it was like.
To put it mildly, I was impressed. After telling it what I was into, it was able to give me websites that I thought were really interesting and useful, though there are some which I disagree with subtly - too subtly for it's preferences engine to understand.