Today JoDee and I went to the Fish Doctors to pick up some new fishies. You'll remember that last we mentioned the Fish Doctors I had a credit for turning in Plucky (the plecostamous) who had grown to the point where he was practically legal to keep if ensnared on …

More on storyline patents here on groklaw. Assinine doesn't even begin to describe how utterly wrong this patent is. Oh, and the story being patented? Lets just say that I hope his clandestine writing is stellar, because his plot seems like something a graduate student would have come up with …

The United States Patent Office is releasing provisional Story Line Patents. From the article:

"Knight, a rocket engine inventor, registered patent agent, and graduate of MIT and Georgetown Law, will assert publication-based provisional patent rights against anyone whose activities may fall within the scope of his published claims, including all …

Well I'm having quite the day today. I love days where I'm chasing issues that I created. One such issue was created a while ago in a subroutine that the original authors thought to introduce a line feed. Unfortuantely I also introduced a fix where the original value would be …

It's too bad I'm already boycotting RIAA music (and you should too. Check out RIAA Radar for what labels are safe and which are not) because Sony would be label number one on my shitlist for installing root-kits on customer machines. Just when I thought companies couldn't stoop any lower …