Archive for June, 2009

Politics, at last

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

I usually don’t go into politics in this blog, but now I feel I have to.
Today we have the EU elections. Not that they mean as much as national elections, but they do mean something. I’m voting for the Pirate Party and I feel an urge to explain why.
It’s not because I support illegal downloading [...]

MS patch of… Firefox?

Friday, June 5th, 2009

To quote an article on annoyances.org about the new ClickOnce install support that MS has added to .NET:
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 update, pushed through the Windows Update service to all recent editions of Windows in February 2009, installs the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant firefox extension without asking your permission.
This update adds [...]