most recent quake in the la area. more: the shakemap
can’t resist. best of david hasselhoff. check out the reviews.
i haven’t been writing much recently, part of the whole finishing up last freelance work, not having an apt (thanx crane), looking for a car, looking for a real job thing.
also, i am just starting to read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, where apparently, i will learn how to incorporate and give myself “tax-free gifts,” do some “insider’s trading,” and deal in real estate w/ my imaginary cat muffins as my “business partner” while getting “good deals” from schmoes and getting it on the cheap from banks because i’ll be using cashier checks. we (muffins and i) are really looking forward to this.
in fact, we’re looking forward to blogging in the first-person plural voice until muffins gets tired of it. isn’t that right muffins? who wants some catnip?
joseph stiglitz, ex-chief economist of the world bank talks about the IMF and it’s four-step help program (step three and a half involves rioting).
sigh, nothing like a power hiccup to ruin a perfectly good uptime. (almost 4 months)
so, i was up and taking a break from work, and i decided to add some really old stuff to my archives page. i dug up some stuff all the way back to dec 97. fun, right? um, not that anyone should read it. also, i found some old photos from when i first got my coolpix.
handspring seems to be doing things right. they just got fcc approval for two new models – both w/ web, sms, and phone capabilities (gsm). the only thing it seems to be missing is the new palm i705’s always on mail capability (using mobitex like the palm vii’s, not cdpd or gprs).
i haven’t really been keeping up, but this is rather nift as well: handspring is now giving away visorphones for free w/ the purchase of visor and service plan.
oh, i forgot to post that i finally remembered to call my degree counselor tuesday afternoon. i had stopped by on campus last week to make sure that my credits had transfered in from my summer spanish class at smc, but hadn’t gotten a chance to call in earlier. so now i’m officially graduated, no longer a student, and joining the ranks of the unemployed. woo!
from the ap
Dmitry Sklyarov, 27 and ElComSoft Co. Ltd. of Moscow were charged with five counts of copyright violations for writing a program that lets users of Adobe Systems’ eBook Reader get around copyright protections imposed by electronic-book publishers.”
something worth noting perhaps, is the ap’s use of term “copyright protection” in lieu of “copy protection.” of, course, this type of newspeak has been going on for quite some time now. unfortunately, over time, the intellectual property, specifically copyright laws have been shifting along with (or, as Orwell argues, as a result of) the shift in vocabulary.
of course, most people don’t really spend much time thinking about it, i suppose. and at the risk of being overly redundant, i’ll mention once again how few people, even at a senior class college level, whose livelihoods more or less depend on these very ip laws, none were familiar with basic intellectual property issues, much less the recent developments and shifts in copyright models. (when i gave my short presentation and asked for a raise of hands on familiarity with the topic, none came up).
how long did this take me to write? way too frickin long.
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