Richard Stallman writes for the BBC in It's not the Gates, it's the bars: "Gates may be gone, but the walls and bars of proprietary software he helped create remain, for now".... ...

Getting the opportunity to dine out with a colleague yesterday evening in London, I found myself going Greek.  Vasis Restaurant and Taverna on Maple Street in London was just a short stroll from the Holiday Inn on Regents Street that I had earlier checked into.  We were greeted at the door at around 8.15in the [...]Copyright © maviscrewitt.com 2008. Terms and Conditions Apply. (Digital Fingerprint: hhd763hj976) ...

What do you guys think about gay people who are sacked from their religious places of work? For instance I know of one guy who was sacked from his position at a Seventh Day Adventist church school because of his sexuality. Now I sympathise with him, and find this kind of discrimination disgusting on a personal level. But really what did he expect? It’s a Seventh Day Adventist school! Should we, as members of the LGBT community, really be signing up to support and work for religious and bigoted organizations? Would it be morally right for me to apply for ...

As I finished work early yesterday, I headed on down to Swanpool before picking ET up from work. It was a beautiful afternoon and I took lots of photographs (these, I will show at a later date). It was so nice that, when I did eventually pick ET up, I offered to buy us both an icecream and go for a stroll around the lake.We ate our 99s (icecream in a cone with a flake bar) and enjoyed the sunshine. At the east side of the lake, we came across a family of swans: quite fitting to have swans at ...

Successfully completed the Ottawa journey as of about 30 minutes ago. <3 to mab1981 and the mr for having us (for their canibal dinner - don’t worry I has an automatic I didn’t need the leg anyway!) Laptop battery flattening me deaded now. ShareThis ...

My desk is surrounded by stars and stripes! ...

Despite my silence on the matter, I am still watching BB. And Jesus, these guys are proving to be a volatile lot. Each time a bad apple is removed (Alexandria, Dennis, Sylvia) a new one grows to take it's place. Enter Jennifer. Not only is she the most dull creature in the universe, but she is a hypocrite (her whole religious thing, what an idiotic thing to admit to) and a bitchy madam. She is up for eviction tomorrow and hopefully she will be thrown out. Rebecca is the Sylvia to Jennifer's Alexandria and I have no doubt Rebecca will ...

This is the photograph I wanted to show you yesterday.Gyllingvase first thing in the morning: only the occassional dogwalker, a man and his son throwing a frisbie, some people getting the beach cafe ready for a fresh day of trading; the sea, lazy in its gentle movement, caressed the warm sand as the tide came in; a song thrush singing in the Gyllingvase nature park. Beauty doesn't come more freely than this. ...

• i have oral pain. I thought only good came from mouth (like mouth sex or eating). #
• vile. My gum was inflated around the tooth. So i poked it. puss squirted out. I’ll need to pay my dentist that £50. #

ShareThis ...

To all my American readers, enjoy your day! I will be... thanks to the many, many Americans I work with our work is also celebrating July 4th with food and drinks.I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Archibald Stuart, Philadelphia (December 23, 1791)I'd give anything to know what Thomas Jefferson would think of George W. Bush. ANYTHING! Wouldn't that be a delicious exchanges of letters... Jefferson versus Bush... if only. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is ...

Some time ago I started reading the Bilerico Project (I think one Scott-O-Rama first brought my attention to it). And I have found it intensely interesting. This week it reaches it's first birthday and I thought I'd just put a shout out to it, and spread the word a little. This is a gay current affairs blog with a difference. Sadly it is very USA centric, but as I find the USA endlessly diverting this doesn't put me off. It obviously deals with the big queer news out there but what it does that is slightly different is ...

On Sunday, just down the road from my own home, two students were brutally murdered. After being stabbed in what must have been a horrific frenzy (the student whose flat it was was found with 196 stab wounds) the flat was set alight. These two men had been studying here in this country but met a truly disturbing fate. I just hope that whoever did this is caught, and soon. Anyone capable of that sort of violence is a danger to us all. The sheer amount of violence used in this incident makes me think that it was not ...

...maybe in the winter, maybe in the fall but not so much when it chucks it down with rain!That said we had a lovely day and as ever our lunch (Richards birthday lunch) at Cafe du Commerce was fantastic ;0)More photo's after the jump! ...

This morning I dropped ET off and, because I was way too early to go to work, I drove to the headland for a while. I parked up and sat on a wall overlooking the Carrick Roads, St Mawes Castle and St Anthony's lighthouse. It was hot already, with only the slightest breeze and the sunlight glistened off the water like tiny jewels. I watched a cormorant sunning itself on a rock, heard that bubbly enthusiastic song of swallows. I wasn't even tempted to find a shot today, not until I was driving along Cliff Road and decided to take ...

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has just released the first part of a report on the state of Homosexual Rights in the 27 member states of the Union. The FRA, which is based in Vienna, was inaugurated on March 1, 2007. It is the successor to the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC). The report forms a comprehensive study on homophobia, transphobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation.The report analyses comparatively key legal provisions, relevant judicial data, such as court decisions, and case law in the Member States. In addition, the report ...

I decided to give Grand Central Train Service another go this morning, travelling from York to London Kings Cross.  The train arrived into York on time and left bang on 8:21 as scheduled.  The train was pretty empty and many of the carriages only had a handful of people in.  The staff were cheerful and friendly [...]Copyright © maviscrewitt.com 2008. Terms and Conditions Apply. (Digital Fingerprint: hhd763hj976) ...