Real life makes a lot of things hard to achieve and I feel quite exhausted after last weeks. But there were also many good news last week: Someone finally escaped the danger of death and is back at home with good chances for complete recovery. My soul got another pardon. I should get the required […]

I managed to read apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium by Pope Francis. Very interesting and useful reading.

Today is the eighth International Day Against DRM. I consider DRM unethical, dangerous, threatening our freedom and serving no useful purpose. A lot could be said on the topic, but I’ll try to give just an illustrative example instead. When I looked for works of George Orwell in Czech e-shops I found that they were […]

My country, Czech Republic, has joined the European Union 10 years ago. It was great event and it’s clear that the EU has been helping us a lot to return from the Soviet empire to civilized world. What did we give to the EU? I’m not sure. Our government has made some serious troubles but […]

Eben Moglen gave an interesting series of talks on “Snowden and the Future”. The whole series is now available for watching, listening and reading.

I strongly recommend reading the excellent essay on surveillance partnership of government and private sectors by Bruce Schneier. I’d just add that I don’t believe changes in formal policies are enough to solve the problem (although they are very important). We also need to technically break the inherent surveillance grounds. We users can do it, […]

This year’s Lent starts. We may approach it as a period of inconvenient restriction or as a good chance to gain something. I’ve been thinking about absurdities of our society. We kill innocent and defenseless people. This has always happened but what I am additionally worried about is that we seriously talk about the “right” […]

So we have the opportunity to elect our president ourselves for the first time. Let’s not waste it. We shouldn’t get discouraged by the fact that some of the most popular candidates have done a lot of bad things in the past while other ones are so popular just for the fact they have done […]

My country, Czech Republic, has again expressed strong objections against future changes of the European Union. This is for the second time, after our president refused to sign the Treaty of Lisbon. I’m not going to analyze the reasons and legitimacy of those actions. (By the way, it’s necessary to remark that there is no […]

God should be in the centers of our lives. But is it really so? I can often observe silence. When we communicate with our friends or other people, we usually chat about children, everyday matters, work, weather, politics, sometimes about things like computers or math. And something important is missing. Will our Savior come to […]