“Microsoft says that it’s dropping DRM from some of the catalog in the Zune store. This is the other shoe-drop we’ve all been waiting for since Apple announced that it would sell the entire EMI catalog (albeit at a 30% higher price) without DRM through the iTunes Music Store…”
This is definitely a step in the [...]
Google Inc. is confident its popular video-sharing site YouTube and other Web services Google offers have strong legal protections under current copyright law, company attorneys said on Tuesday.
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Because I’m always the first to signup for new services…
According to Wikipedia, a tumbelog is “a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging”. I’ve setup my own tumbelog at tumblr. Since they allow you to use your own domain name, you can [...]
Google Maps shows real-time information about traffic for many US cities (including Detroit). To see this, switch to the map or hybrid mode and click on the new traffic tab. Google Maps will add a layer that colors the roads in green, yellow, red, or gray.
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The production of one liter bottle of Fiji water uses much more water than the bottle contains. It also consumes almost one kilogram of fossil fuel, and emits over one pound of CO2. Add that to the fact that it’s no better (and could even be worse) than plain old city water (if you [...]
I finally got around to upgrading the blog software that runs this site: WordPress 2.1.1.
It’s interesting how perception is often more important than truth. For example, I keep hearing and reading all sorts of comments in the media and by random people about how Toyota is more “American” than the Big 3 when it comes to building cars. This is simply not true. Here’s a breakdown [...]
With new talk about raising the minimum wage, I figured I’d blog about it. Shawn Ritenour wrote a nice article that details why all the reasons given for a minimum wage turn out to be false. Here are some points.
“Helping the Poor”
One of the main arguments about raising the minimum wage is to [...]
For the 5th time this year, a hard drive has failed on a computer I use regularly. Two on my main PC, one on my Media Center PC, my laptop hard drive, and a PC at work. Luckily, I back everything up on a daily basis so I was up and running the [...]
Make that… my gradual swith to Apple laptop hardware.
My wife’s Dell laptop is officially dead. The socket that the power adaptor plugs into doesn’t seem to provide power to the motherboard. We tried several other power cord/adaptors. I assumed there was some loose connection or cracked solder point. We even [...]