Well, it was bound to happen. I caught the flu. Actually, both Amanda and I caught the flu, at basically the same time (I caught it one day after she did).
DRM can bite my…
The BBC reports that following approval from the BBC Trust they are now allowed to release their ‘iPlayer’, enabling the download and viewing of BBC owned content. Unfortunately the Trust also mandated the use of DRM to enforce a 30 day playable period.
New Theme!!
Holy crap! A new theme, you say? Yes, I’ve gone and done it (again). I liked the old Firefox theme, but the fonts weren’t my cup of tea. And it was a bit flashy, so… I went around and found this one. I like it. Do you?
Lessons from 1984
We all know about George Orwell’s 1984, right? Well, sometimes I think maybe we don’t, because we keep doing stuff that seems to be taken straight from the book.
Bruce Schneier on REAL-ID (again)
“A reliance on ID cards is based on a dangerous security myth, that if only we knew who everyone was, we could pick the bad guys out of the crowd.”