I got a frantic phone call from JoDee today… the kind of frantic phone call that you get when people are in serious trouble. She noticed something near our plant “Herman”, and thought it wa a dead leaf or something. When she went to pick it up, it moved. This freaked her out because the [...]
The shirt to wear when travelling abroad.
The worst part about accidents isn’t the crash itself. The crash is pretty much over after the initial seconds of impact. It’s not even waiting for the police to show up to make a record of the incident. Nope… getting everything taken care of after the fact is the worst. Calling collision places to get [...]
The LZW patent (which comprises of the compression used in GIF files) expires today in the US. And there was much rejoicing. Unfortunately it doesn’t expire in all countries today. Oh, and a reminder: software patents still suck.
This article details a independent parties journey into SCO to look at their evidence. SCO is being extremely tight-lipped about what they’re planning on doing and what their evidence is for copyright infringement, and this article points out that even after signing their NDA, they’re still tight-lipped about the actual details about the case. The [...]
Yeah, I know I need to take a bit more time in the preview stage. Man, I can’t type sometimes. I’m thinking of integrating a script for doing spell checking as soon as I remember the site for it (something about poking badgers or some other thing. I’ll have a link up for it when [...]
Well, it had to happen sometime with the way the people drive down here. I had an accident coming home from work, less than a mile from where we live. A guy pulling out of a parking lot managed to cut into my lane (I was in the left lane), and crush the doors on [...]
Senator Hatch, I’m here to collect the stupidity tax for this bit of brilliance. Not only is this highly impractical on so many fronts (distribution of the PC disabling software to cpyright holders, determining copyrgithed material being transferred, etc), but quite frankly flies in the face of this little thing we call “due process”. It’s [...]
Looks like Sun Microsystems is getting a taste of humility now that it has been pretty much rendered obsolete by Linux/Intel machines. Hopefully they won’t fall into the complete irrelevancy that SCO is finding itself (and start lawsuits with eeryone and anything that remotely looks or feels like Solaris and Java), but the writing is [...]
A New York Assemblyman has proposed legslation to tax videogames, fast food, and television commercials in order to fund obesity prevention. I’m not sure how laugh-out-loud this is for some of you, but for me, this is absolutely ridiculous. The sad thing is, though, that while this legislation has no chance of passing, there are [...]
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