Good day yesterday. I got to lounge around in the morning doing basically nothing. In the afternoon, Bill and I strung a couple cables, one for phone and one for ethernet. The phone cable works fine, and I expect the ethernet will too, but I haven’t tested it yet, since I need to get some power near the basement end of that line to run the devices that’ll be living down there. Then it was off to BW-3 HarMar for the PeTA gathering, where much fun was had, along with more than a couple beers. My head’s a little fuzzy this morning, but it was worth it.
In other news, my Macintosh is puzzling me. It wakes up for no apparent reason after I’ve put it to sleep, even if I disconnect all the USB devices. The system log tells me it’s getting woken up by a keyboard event. I suspect there’s something that was installed along with Stuffit Deluxe 8.0 that’s screwing up my system, but I’m not sure. I am sure that I don’t like it.
- Novell’s Unique Legal Rights has a list of all their correspondence with SCO and Novell’s copyright registrations.
- Rights issue dogs CD protection, since the
copy-protected
CDs
have two copies of each song on them (one normal, and one WMA version), and the label has to pay the artist twice for the songs on the CD. - RIAA posing as cops, raiding street vendors in teams of black-vested thugs. And they have legal authority to do this how? Then again with the former head of BATF now in charge of their anti-piracy SWAT team, it’s no surprise they’re paying no attention to the law. [fark!]
- Our friend Kari Tauring now has music available for download on iTunes. Pretty cool, though I’m sure she would’ve preferred it if A Yuletide Celebration had been available there before the solstice. Still, it’s pretty cool. [jim]
- In This Blog Apparently Hates Everyone, Evan discusses the 2004 elections. Aside from him not seeming to realize that the Libertarian Party exists (as far as I can tell) only to keep Harry Browne and his cronies rolling in money, it’s a pretty good (if dark) look at the political landscape. His previous article, Marketwatch is another way to look at politics. And tomorrow will be the Iowa caucuses. I don't expect to have much to say about the various Democratic Party primaries, but it's interesting watching other people get worked up about it. [101-280]