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The trial posted 18th October 2002

From Pythonesque to Kafkaesque. Having been denied a visa to re-enter the USA, Russian programmer, Dmitry Sklyarov faces the dilemma of being legally unable to enter the States to attend a trial he is legally obliged to testify in.

Sklyarov is at the centre of the first DMCA prosecution, and his required to testify in the forthcoming trial of his former employers, ElcomSoft. ElcomSoft is charged with supplying a tool that circumvents the copy protection in Adobe eBooks.

Nazdarovya: It seems Firebird has been renamed to Firefox. Im looking forward to the plug-in that enables you to enter a URL just by ‘thinking in Russian’. Jon Hicks implemented the lovely new icons and posted details of the branding process, as have others.
Mozilla 1.0: Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. This is a trial run for the upcoming Mozilla 1.0 release.
Minimalism: The 5k competition is back! So go enter those tiny sites. (Super Letraset-stylee design btw Caterina.) Oh and super-duper photos are now online here at clagnut. There’s a rndom sample for you just there. You can see more of them at clagnut.com/photos. (Yes I will get…
Compo results: The Guardian UK weblogs competition results are out. Obviously I didn’t win, however Scary Duck did. Highly commended were iMakeContent and Greenfairydotcom; runners up were blogjam, LinkMachineGo and Plenty of Taste. Congratulations to all the winners, all the entries…
ISSN refused: I’ve just had an email back from the ISSN UK Centre, once more turning down my request for an ISSN for Clagnut.