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The Globe and Mail asks: Why you pay $52 for a $15 wine in a restaurant?. My response to that, why pay for wine at all?

Every few years I decide that it is time to use a new infrastructure to start blogging. This time Leif suggested that I look into Octopres. I like its original tag: A blogging framework for hackers, but its source infrastructure put me off (it uses ruby, of which I am no fan).

The day of the publication of the results of the NSERC Discovery Grants for 2013 is approaching, and I just realized that I didn't publish the ones from 2012, which I did for 2011.

The full list of results can be found here.

They show the bad, but they also show the humane side.

I knew I was never going to be able to get a reservation at elBulli (note the camelCase :). But since Ferran Adrià decided to close it I knew I had a chance to one day eat at the best restaurant in the world.

Looking at the rakings of the best places to eat

FC Barcelona is finally champion of La Liga. It is certainly an accomplishment to have won 4 out of the last 5 championships. Yet this year has a sombre tone. The loss against Bayern 0-7 left much to be desired.

During the last three years I have been attending the European Legal Network Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop. Because of the quality of people in attendance this is probably the best workshop/conference for open source licensing in the world.

This year I presented a talk called Toward a census of free and open source software licenses.

I am tired of web-based blogging. I want to blog when I want, where I want–that includes not having an internet connection—and don't be forced to use any specific infrastructure to do it.

Why? because I like my editor. And every time I have to use a different editing environment I feel trustrated.

So here it goes again… a reboot of my web site. Well, it just has to happen every few years…

NSERC has published the results of the NSERC discovery grant competition in 2011. NSERC only published the raw data, so with a little bit of initiative one can retrieve it and visualize it.

I had several questions about this data….

This weekend I watched "The People vs Larry Flint". One of the scenes is: