Tag Archives: Ethics

Happy Monkey!

Okay, so the folks at the Apple apple store were quite friendly, I signed in early just in case they could help me out before my actual appoint­ment and spent a good half an hour wan­der­ing around look­ing at all of the Mac toys. Lindsay was there hanging out with me so it wasn’t com­pletely bor­ing. My

Plagiarist

Lindsay has been doing a lot of read­ing lately about pla­gi­ar­ism. It’s a ser­i­ous con­cern for artists I would ima­gine. Perhaps my views on soft­ware pir­acy relate here, people jus­tify soft­ware theft by say­ing that it’s just 1’s and 0’s on the Internet. Well a book is just ink stains on paper, should I be allowed to scan a best selling

Much ado about ethics.

My sis­ter and my girl­friend have recently blogged on the sub­ject of eth­ics. Particularly regard­ing the fash­ion indus­tries ques­tion­able ones, such as the use of sweat shop labour, or the over-sexualization of products. I try to be aware of my choices in that I would like to avoid sup­port­ing sweat­shop labour, I don’t want to have slavery

Ahhh!

I moved my com­puter into the liv­ing room today and attached it to the tele­vi­sion screen, I also dug up my wire­less key­board and mouse. I may have to do this more often.  I’m a little proud of my com­puter, it’s the first one that I built from scratch using all new and actu­ally decent parts. I’ve got an Antec