Archive for March, 2007

Having had way too much experience with the negative aspects of the DMCA lately, I was pleasantly surprised to find an article at Plagiarism Today referencing DreamHost’s blog post on Dealing with a DMCA Crook. I love the fact that DreamHost goes out of its way to be clear that the DMCA can be...
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This is good: Saw it on HorsePigCow. complaints, funny, john koetsier
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One thing that has always irritated me about Adobe’s Acrobat applications is that they are real space hogs. Upon launch, they immediately expand to fill all available space: Note, that’s all available space – as wide as your monitor will allow. Not, as one might expect, a reasonable size that is commensurate with the...
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Whoa … I see Chris DiBona of Google’s open source program is helping NASA move 120 terabytes of data … all the data that the Hubble space telescope has ever collected. Now that’s a LOT of data. Very cool. Hope they don’t lose any spare terabytes here or there. But what’s with this pic?...
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I’ve been in touch with the owner of Motiono.com, Sumer Kolcak, and we’ve decided to amicably resolve the differences between us. Sumer has sent an email to MT telling them that he is withdrawing the DMCA takedown notice that he sent; I’ll preface my posts on this issue with a line stating that we’ve...
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Just opened a package in the mail – it’s Timothy Johnson’s new GUST: the “Tale” Wind of Office Politics. Where does the guy get the time? It seems like just a few months ago that he came out with Race Through the Forest: a Project Management Fable. Very cool … I’ll be reading it...
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March 22 note added: I’ve been in touch with the owner of Motiono.com and we’ve resolved our differences amicably. The DMCA takedown notice has been removed.
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March 22 note added: I’ve been in touch with the owner of Motiono.com and we’ve resolved our differences amicably. The DMCA takedown notice has been removed.
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March 22 note added: I’ve been in touch with the owner of Motiono.com and we’ve resolved our differences amicably. The DMCA takedown notice has been removed.
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March 22 note added: I’ve been in touch with the owner of Motiono.com and we’ve resolved our differences amicably. The DMCA takedown notice has been removed.
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March 22 note added: I’ve been in touch with the owner of Motiono.com and we’ve resolved our differences amicably. The DMCA takedown notice has been removed.
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I love well-constructed and vivid language. Here’s a snippet I ran across today that inspired some memories: A few years back, I was struggling to liberate a new Barbie doll from the almost invincible packaging that imprisoned her … (Seen in an email newsletter from Character Counts … written by Michael Josephson.)
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After weeks of pain, agony, and fruitless searches, I finally managed to buy a Wii. Three weeks ago, actually – I didn’t want to post about it until I had some time to evaluate it – and it’s been great. Although I’ve bought another game (Excite Truck) I’m the only one playing it much...
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I just happened to stumble across this Steve Jurvetson photo of an eagle eating a rabbit or some small rodent hawk eating a vole. Ouch! That is just nasty – predator and prey … both almost seeming to stare into the camera as one head disappears into the other. (Of course, this is probably...
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Just so you know, I’m getting paid $50 to write this review of iBegin. I belong to the ReviewMe service, and get an invitation to review a product or site every couple of weeks. I accept about half of them. Here’s why I decided to do this review of iBegin: I went to the...
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