About daily life… or nothing in particular.
This is my second post from my blog’s web-interface since God knows when. I’m already missing Ecto. Unfortunately, I’m too tamad to install the Windows version.
It’s official (at least as far as I’m concered): the Powerbook’s hard disk has physical damage. The good news is that I was able to recover most of, if not all my important files. So now I’m not worried about having this unit serviced – they can do whatever they want with it.
Today doesn’t feel like it’s my birthday. Actually, as my friends would attest to, I never gave my birthday that much thought. Often I even forget all about it – even if it was just around the corner (like today). Regardless, today was especially irritating because, aside from the fact that I’m one year closer to the day I die, a bunch of… not-so-happy-events also occured.
On a more serious note, here’s a an audio sample of Ray Beckerman talking about the RIAA law suits. DefectiveByDesign.org, as it’s name implies is also against DRM 1 Digital Rights Management itself, on grounds that I will not discuss in this post. But the bigger issue of the RIAA suing innocent people is what’s being discussed. You can skip the introduction by Peter Brown and go directly to what Mr. Beckerman is saying (at about a minute and 47 seconds into the clip)
In case you need it, the transcript’s available here. If you live in the United States, please spread the word. Hell, even if you aren’t, spread it anyways. Digital copyright laws are bound to affect us one way or the other no matter where we live. Read More
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Ever wonder how Jack Black would be like in a low budget, awful (yet hilarious) home-made(ish) video? It even has its own theme song which incidentally, if you listen closely – he hums in one part of the movie School of Rock
