Law… Oil-for-Food Sentence Over 28 Oct 2008 Back in the run-up to the Iraq war, and in the period following it, one of the minor rallying cries on Fox (and elsewhere, especially the White House, which drew…
Law… Senator Stevens Convicted 27 Oct 2008 The New York Times, and at least 1,400 other news sources, are reporting that Senator Ted Stevens of Alaskan (and Bridge-to-Nowhere and "The Internet is a series of tubes") fame,…
Law… Azure Not Registered 27 Oct 2008 A little glee out there in the world, as it appears that Microsoft hadn't gotten 'round to registering "Azure" with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. "According to searches…
Software… Microsoft Wants Some of the Cloud 27 Oct 2008 The Wall Street Journal, among other sources, tell me that Microsoft is jumping on the "Cloud" bandwagon, trying mightily to tap into a market that Amazon, Google and others think…
Entertainment… Getting Netflix on a Mac 27 Oct 2008 As time goes on, I may begin to seem a little more critical of Macs than non-Macs. Macs are gorgeous machines (if a little blah in the color-scheme; a guy…
Law… FEMA Delays 26 Oct 2008 The Houston/Galveston region has been largely ignored nationally in the wake of Hurricane Ike, and this chron.com story is truly amazing. Apparently, according to the article, "federal officials have approved…
Law… Stay of Execution of Sentence Pending Appeal 20 Oct 2008 Last week, the Houston Chronicle had a little blurb about a doctor who is reporting to FPC Bryan after being convicted of allegedly injecting individuals with fake Botox™. (Allegedly she…
Entertainment… No surprises here…. Studios Don’t Like RealDVD 30 Sep 2008 My last post (three weeks ago, natch) suggested that the studios would find some way to sue RealNetworks for its software, RealDVD, even if Real wasn't hacking the encryption. Looks…
Law… RealDVD 8 Sep 2008 According to a blog on Fortune's site, Real Networks (buffering..............) has unveiled a new DVD ripping technology that doesn't hack the encryption on DVDs. This, so it seems, makes copying…
Law… EULA Drama 4 Sep 2008 So the past few days have seen some compartmentalized drama regarding Google's Chrome EULA and the damned GoogleUpdate.exe. Which got me to think about other software's EULAs and what they…
