You know, I actually quite like fixing my Arch Linux desktop when something goes wrong.

in Winton, Salford, United Kingdom

WBA 0-3 MUFC, that’s more like it. Rumours Robin van Persie is leaving in the summer were eased by the fact we actually played better after he was subbed off around the hour mark.

I would like to thank @kevinmarks for live-tweeting

As a Brit it’s really weird seeing courtroom footage from Pistorius’ trial. Cameras aren’t allowed in out courtrooms.

Busy at start trying to fundraise for our Ben Nevis walk this summer.

Next idea on the agenda is a car boot sale this Sunday. Not sure how much we’ll raise though. The upcoming quiz night should be good though.

in Pendleton, Salford, United Kingdom

I can smell @sophieryder cooking the chicken. It smells awesome!

in New Brighton, United Kingdom

At my girlfriend’s place. About to have a chicken roast meal for the second night in a row before driving home. Hopefully gonna get web mentions working on my site tonight.

in New Brighton, United Kingdom

A very intersting article by @Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2014/02/working_backwards

Just compare the number of phones Apple make compared to Samsung for an example of focus.

Fixing Copyright

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I was listening to the excellent Hello Internet podcast made by CGPGrey and Brady Haran, and in episode 3 they talked about copyright.

Copyright is about protecting investment, its about money.

So lets make it about money. I think copyright should be theoretically infinite. You should take the production budget of the work of art. Multiply this by some factor, and then if the art makes that much profit the copyright protection is removed. If a work of art isn't popular enough to make that much profit then it can stay under copyright protection indefinitely, until it does.

Yes, the obvious thing that will happen is that production companys will artificially infalte the production costs in order to maximise the profits they can make.

I still feel this is a better system than we currently have.

Looking forward to a Sunday roast made by Sophie. Roast pork plus crackling, roast potatoes, cauliflower cheese, roast sprouts with bacon, glazed carrots, and pork, sage and onion stuffing. Followed by jam rolly-polly. I don’t deserve a such a great girlfriend.

My name is Jonny Barnes, and jonnybarnes.uk is my site. I’m from Manchester, UK .

I am active to varying degrees on several silos:

My usual online nickname is normally jonnybarnes for other services. I also syndicate my content to the IndieWeb friendly site micro.blog. Here’s a profile pic. You can email me at hi@jonnybarnes.uk, or message me on Matrix: @jonny:jonnybarnes.uk.