Robert Scoble upset he didn’t get a free ticket…

There was a shudder throughout the Internet today: Robert Scoble, former Official Blogger for Microsoft and now writer/podcaster for PodTech.Net, didn’t receive an invite to a Microsoft developer conference.  A fellow at Microsoft by the name of Alfred Thompson responded saying (more or less) that Scoble isn’t the target audience for the conference anyway.  And Scoble was pissed by this response.

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Wayne Crookes sues the Internet…

I found the following today during my usual morning coffee + web browsing session:

Wayne Crookes, a former campaign manager of the Green Party of Canada, said he “suffered an immense amount of frustration and emotional distress” over postings on Google’s Blogspot.com, a free blog-hosting website, within an entry under his name in Wikipedia, and on openpolitics.ca, an interactive political forum set up by Michael Pilling, an Ontario and federal Green Party activist.

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The Death of a Dragon…

 I was reading one of my new favorite comics (thanks, Leaha!), and came across a mention of this:

April 19, 2007 (BELLEVUE, Wash.) – Paizo Publishing and Wizards of the Coast today announced the conclusion of Paizo’s license to produce DRAGON and DUNGEON magazines effective September 2007.

Source: NEWS: Paizo Publishing to Cease Publication of DRAGON and DUNGEON

It is odd how the death of a magazine that I haven’t read in years has caused me to pause

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Sony DVD copy protection prevents replay in some Sony DVD players…

Sony just can’t seem to stop screwing their customers with various forms of DRM.  First there was the Sony CD rootkit debacle (insert a Sony CD into your PC and get hacked by the best!)  Now it appears that several of their latest DVD releases, including Stranger than Fiction and Casino Royal, won’t work on some consumer DVD players.

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I survived!

I am fortunate to have an employer who was able to allow me to work from home while Irene recovered from her second hip replacement.  It made things much less stressful for all involved.

Working from home for a month, though, leads to some odd behavior.  My hours of work were scattered all over the 24 hour day, partly in order to accommodate things Irene needed me for, partly because I found it convenient to work when Irene was asleep.  I could take naps whenever my eyes started to feel heavy.  There were several days where I didn’t bother to dress.

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Thinking again about an RSS feed reader…

I have toyed periodically with various ways of monitoring RSS feeds and bringing them to my desktop.  Nothing I’ve used has felt quite “right”, and like PDAs I’ve ultimately ended up relegating several “almost but not quite” solutions to the junk bin.  I’m feeling tempted to try again.

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