Found this great Firebird sidebar RSS reader (thanks Joel!). Now I can dump NewzCrawler when I am on Windows.
Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft
MS: “Mr Rowe, you own the domain name that make fun of our company name.”
MR: “Ahem, and?”
MS: “We would like to buy the domain name off your hand.”
MR: “OK, how much?”
MS: “$10”
MR: “Sorry? You mean $10,000, right?”
MS: “Nope, let me spell it out to you kid in case you failed math. One, zero dollar. Ten. The number between nine and eleven.”
MR: “Ha!” (phone line drops dead)
MS: “Take it or leave it, kid. We’ll sue the ass off you. Hello? Hello? Kid, you still there?”
On a more serious note, someone at Microsoft needs to take the PR-101 course. $10,000 will do such damage to Microsoft’s 2004 gross profit I bet all the shareholders will be up in arms!
$10,000 vs. very bad PR. Mmm…
For more fun reading, visit Slashdot.
Computer users are strange? Never!
Quote from Linus Torvalds Q&A in Austrian IT:
Which actually is pretty boring, I think it’s much more fun to do new things, new developments, and not have to worry so much about the user reports, especially if you have one or two people who see really strange behaviour that nobody else sees, you have to try and hunt it down and figure out is it hardware, is it the kernel, is it he’s just doing something really strange that he’s not even aware of? People do really strange things, and they think they’re normal people, but they’re not! (Laughs).
Amen, about people doing strange thing…
DRM in the news
Columnist and BBC writer Bill Thompson write that DRM restricts our freedom to enjoy the music we bought. It was a well written piece and he argues well for his points, that is until he starts backing his arugments up with less than accurateclear information.
And don’t even contemplate making a mix CD of your favourite tracks for your girlfriend or boyfriend to listen to when you’re not around.
Mmm… Bill, you can burn the tracks you purchase from iTunes Music Store to CDs. Not to mention you can share the tracks over the local network between Macs and PCs.
But apparently Bill has not tried out or used iTMS:
Apple’s iTunes is apparently a great service but it doesn’t actually make Apple any money because of the high level of royalty they have to pay to the music industry for every song downloaded. (Emphasis added)
I enjoyed Bill’s articles previously but it is exactly this kind of inaccurateunclear journalism that builds up my distrust over news outlets and the message they try to send.
The ecto has landed
The update of Kung-Log blogging tool, ecto, has been released today. I only have a few minutes of spare time this morning to try it out before having to leave for work (what a drag, huh?) and it immediately gives me some inspiration for my own blogging tool project.
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