Law… France’s Copyright Legislation 15 Sep 2009 France can be a strange country. (And in other news, cats can be aloof.) Well, perhaps it isn't so fair to single France out; all countries have their peculiarities. But…
Gizmos… Blackberry App Test 11 Sep 2009 Last night, after struggling to post something through my BlackBerry's web browser, and failing, I thought "wouldn't it be nice to have an app on this thing?" Turns out there…
Law… Even More on the Google Books Settlement 11 Sep 2009 Settlement agreements rarely get the amount of scrutiny as the proposed agreement in the Google Books controversy, and now the Register of Copyrights, Marybeth Peters, has testified to Congress about…
Law… More on the Google Books Settlement 8 Sep 2009 The Google Books settlement is generating a lot of ink over the past few days, with Microsoft wading into the waters. According to PC Magazine, Microsoft filed objections with the…
Society… Strange Results 8 Sep 2009 I have a feeling that the author of this Time article on the old tripey trope that one shouldn't wear white after Labor Day didn't mean for this to happen:…
Law… More on Google Privacy 8 Sep 2009 Yesterday I mentioned the Google Books proposed settlement, along with the new concerns about consumer privacy. Today, there's a story on Gawker/Valleywag about why the concerns about privacy may be…
Law… Google Books Settlement and Privacy Concerns 7 Sep 2009 Google has always been a problematic company for me. On one hand, its search engine has become the de facto starting point for the vast majority of internet users, so…
Music… Ringtones and ASCAP 2 Jul 2009 Browsing through Yahoo! News this morning, a PC World story about ringtones caught my eye. I've always thought that ringtones occupy an interesting place in our culture. Remember when Apple…
Software… Windows 7 Pricing 25 Jun 2009 Gizmodo has the details on Windows 7 pricing (gleaned from the Windows Blog), and it appears far far far FAR better than I expected. If you recall, I cynically expected…
Software… Pardus 2008.2 Part 2 25 Jun 2009 As I discussed in my last post, just getting to the point where I had actually booted into a working Linux environment seemed a rather difficult task. But, nontheless, there…
