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Bitwise Operator: The Plain Truth About Piracy Everyone should read this article. Especially those of you who are pirating software over the Internet. It’s very depressing to me that the people doing this don’t understand that they are messing with the ecology of software development. (via Mr. Barrett)
Trillian Won’t Heed AOL’s Message I’m sort of torn on this one. AOL is providing a service, they own the servers, they pay for the bandwidth. This stuff is not free. It’s up to them to decide if what they are providing is an open network that people can write other clients for or not. The only real chance they have to recoup their costs is through pushing advertising out to the client software. Now, if they were smart, they would write an API that allowed other clients to become certified for their network which required the ability to push ads out to the client. Then they wouldd get the best of both worlds, other people would be doing some of the innovation work for them, and they would still get the advertising revenue from the third party clients.
So who will it be, Rams or Patriots? I have yet to hear anyone in the analyst community that thinks the Patriots will win. Then again, no one thought the Patriots would get past the Raiders and Steelers either. I tend to agree with them, but I hope the Patriot’s defensive mastermind coach has come up with something to make the game interesting.
Updates are going to be sort of sparse this weekend. I have lots of house stuff to do because I’m having some folks over to watch the Superbowl, and I am still working on getting my blogger entries into Radio as posts. We made a lot of progress on this yesterday. If you are really interested in this stuff, you can read my notes here. I wouldn’t use anything you find there for now. Eventually, there will be documentation of everything that actually works.
A List Apart: Web Services
Is it a coincidence that the Scripting News post Dave mentions me in today is titled “hit a bump”?
Voting for the Anti-Bloggies has begun.
A happy third birthday to Axodys. (Belated)
Arstechnica Cookbook of Bachelor Chow I don’t cook for myself nearly enough, but I do actually know how to cook.
The Onion: Judge Orders God To Break Up Into Smaller Deities: “Calling the theological giant’s stranglehold on the religion industry “blatantly anti-competitive,” a U.S. district judge ruled Monday that God is in violation of anti-monopoly laws and ordered Him to be broken up into several less powerful deities. ”
MacCentral: Apple sued over G3 support in OS X What a lawsuit happy country this has become.
kung fu re-mixer found via web graphics from The Study of Design. Make sure you try using your keyboard to control it.
onfocus.com : snapGallery! “snapGallery is a fast, easy way to create a quick web gallery of pictures.” (Windows Only.)
Strange thing this afternoon. I’m more of a dog person really than a cat person.(Don’t tell Loofa that please.) Normally dogs love me, and even dogs that are generally unfriendly to other people seem to warm up to me right away. I was walking acrosss a parking lot this afternoon, and this woman was talking to someone and holding her two dogs on leashes. As I walked by, one of them strained to the end of its leash wagging it’s tail. I took this to mean that he/she wanted to say hello, so I took a step closer. The dog immediately took a mouthful of my shirt and began trying to bite me. I was stunned, and the dogs owner also seem stunned. Anyway, the dog put two little teeth holes in my shirt. I’m now doubting that dogs like me.
BBEdit 6.5.2 is released. Lots of bug fixes.
I re-installed Windows XP on my Sony Vaio yesterday. I have say that I’m very impressed with the speed of the new OS so far. I originally did an install right over Windows ME, which was a mistake. A clean install, as painful as that can be, seems to be the way to go with it. At times, especially when Web surfing, it makes my Mac OS X machine, which is comparable in speed and configuration, look sluggish. Having said that, I suspect that this is because Internet Explorer for Mac OS X isn’t the fastest app on the planet.
Man, my mortgage seems to be changing hands once a month right now.
I did a little work last night on a new design, that will probably end up being a theme once it’s complete, over at Radio Bump. I’m also using Sam Devore’s iTunes scripts to pull the song playing at the time of publish. I’m looking forward to building hooks into some of the other Applescript aware apps I use.
NY Times: For Mail, a Palm That Gets It
Mac Net Journal: The state of OS X Web browsers
lOggy! The Inbox Experience! I am way too amused by this. (via Evhead)
Sony to sell Linux kit for Playstation 2 Interesting, but $299? That seems a little steep for Linux and a 40 Gb hard drive to me. I mean that’s how much the Playstation 2 hardware costs. (via Ars Technica)