The great thing about the initial attempts at Copyright law was the balance was sought between the interests of the creator and the public. Yes, the creator should have the benefit from creating. However, to hold ideas hostage stiffles innovation. Some see the litigation of the RIAA vs. various companies, the wide-spread use of P2P,…

It now supports Xanga RSS feeds. Hooyah! Moving my active subs now. Score one more for reducing my email volume. On the flip side, I now have something like 221 RSS feeds. How To Ask Questions The Smart Way – possibly this could become my new Bible! You know… the book you quote to people from?…

<geek out> Way 2 rail on M$!!! w00t! L1nuX 4 3v3r!! </geek out> Thanks. I’ll go back to monitoring thermal sensors on boards.

The always gracious Lacey posing in a pic with me.

Say “No” to beaucracies. China’s government has banned the wearing of sexy clothes by female workers. How disappointing. Some of my more interesting days at work in an American beaucracyare those where I eat lunch in places where women in such clothes are rushing somewhere. Naturally, those that come into my office in such do…

Click… click… click… I keep playing this over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Patch em if ya got em. MS has already released tis first post-WinXP SP2 hotfix. Problem is… no one seems to want to install WinXP SP2. So do we wait to install the hotfix until after the SP2? Or just go ahead? Ugh. I have seen some places suggest it might be December before they go…

The tone of articles about weak passwords almost always is that of this is easy to fix, so why isn’t everyone using strong passwords? The be overly general, people are not really concerned. Without carrots or sticks, why should they? No one gets rewarded for having a super-sstrong password. The IT department will deal with…

Echos of Predators ROARS and Alien SHRILLS are still pulsing through my blood 1/2 an hour after getting out of AVP. Except for the creep that decided to sit next to me and some jumpy 9 year old on the other side, it was a great special effects movie. Didn’t expect, nor did I was great…