David Pogue this week writes about using southern yellow pine to build houses with their own atmosphere, which, since I live in a house with two very distinct temperature zones, sounds just freakin’ awesome.
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Happy Birthday, Squeak.
My little sister is 18 years old today.
Wow.
I totally get that “muh little girl is all growed up” choked up feeling that parents get, now.
Congratulations, kid. You’re good people.
Spreading the news, part 2
Philadelphia Race for the Cure 2007
Today was the Susan G Koman Race for the Cure benefitting the fight against breast cancer, in Philadelphia. There were 100,000 people there, over 50% of which parcipated in either the 5k race or the 5k walk. My mom, my sister, and I participated in the walk, with an “official” time of 1 hour 22 minutes, but when 50,000 people are on the same path you are, it’s hard to make good time unless you sign up as a runner and I’m not a runner. I’m pretty happy with it.
And I was blown away by the number of people who were there wearing the pink “survivor” shirt — over seven thousand survivors. Less than a month since my aunt’s death, and there were a few times where it was hard. The whole place was filled with so many determined people that it was hard to be angry or sad for very long.
We’re already talking about walking again next year, which means that I need to get into better shape, because Great Strides for the CF Foundation is next weekend (around here, anyway) and there is no way I can do two of these things back-to-back this year… but next year could be a different story.
Babble Thread?
Pour un babbler. Or is it une babbler? Wouldn’t it have been nice to have learned a foreign language reliably at some point in my life?
If you two keep it up I swear I’ll turn this cupholder around.
Media Rights Technologies and BlueBeat.com Issue Cease and Desist to Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and Real Networks
Am I reading this right?
Under the DMCA, mere avoidance of an effective copyright
protection solution is a violation of the act.
MRT and BlueBeat have developed a technological measure which
effectively controls access to copyrighted material.
MRT asserts Apple, Microsoft, Real and Adobe have produced billions of
these products without regard for the DMCA or the rights of American
Intellectual Property owners, actively avoiding the use of MRT’s
technologies.
Therefore, Media Rights Technologies (MRT) and BlueBeat.com have issued
cease and desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real Networks and Apple with
respect to the production or sale of such products as the Vista OS, Adobe
Flash Player, Real Player, Apple iTunes and iPod.
I am reading this right! It says You won’t use my toy in your product so I’m suing you waaaah!
I firmly believe the DMCA is a crock to begin with, but if the courts back this up, it’ll super-size the crock. We’ll have developers producing “security” products left, right, and sideways, all of which will claim their security is top-notch (even if it’s not) suing major companies because they don’t support their stuff.
Good lord.