Yes, it’s Australia Day

I’m spending the holiday in Adelaide with my grandmother, but the writing doesn’t stop, really (though I do get Tuesday off for Lifehacker).

Yet another linux.conf.au story went up at APC on Monday, this time looking at Andrew Tridgell’s thoughts on patents. And I expanded the portfolio of publications I covered the conference for again, writing about a New Zealand high school’s total open source portfolio for IDG. (Technically, I wrote it for Techworld, but the first place I spotted it was, appropriately, a New Zealand IDG site.)

On non-Linux topics, for iTWire, I covered a new Beatles iPhone app, which is as close as the Fab Four have gotten to iTunes so far. The Road Worrier column looked at the joys of the 7-day GatePass for airport travel addicts like myself. Elsewhere on Lifehacker.