Monthly Archives: May 2007

iTunes Plus is here, are you buying anything?

Posted on May 30, 2007 by steve

When EMI announced that they were going to be offering DRM-free tracks on iTMS in May, I was pretty psyched to see that a major label has finally stepped forward and admitted that DRM doesn’t work. However, the month of … Continue reading →

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.2

Posted on May 29, 2007 by steve

Everything seems to be up and running as usual. I was pleasantly suprised to see that my themes & plugins are all fully functional. The only difference seems to be the inclusion of widget functionality in WP 2.2, which makes … Continue reading →

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Reality of hiring and expansion

Posted on May 19, 2007 by steve

This past week, Microsoft’s Mac development team announced that a real document converter, that will allow old versions of Office users to convert to new versions of Office 2007 format, will not be released until after Mac Office 2008 is … Continue reading →

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Microsoft introduces: Ofone!

Posted on May 16, 2007 by steve

It’s rare that Microsoft comes up with something truly funny, but this parody is really, actually, LOL-kinda good. Which makes you wonder, if they had this much time to make this parody… where is the ZunePhone?!

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Testing thumbnail viewer

Posted on May 11, 2007 by steve

Another miscellaneous test for a WordPress plugin, with a cute picture!

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Is this BSG’s last season?

Posted on May 11, 2007 by steve

Ran across an interesting little tidbit in my random browsing of the intrawebtube: Last season for Battlestar Galatica All I gotta say is, ABOUT TIME! This past season of BSG was complete, utter crap except for the last episode, which … Continue reading →

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Fresno State, video games and guns

Posted on May 8, 2007 by steve

Another unlikely teenage/college shooting happened today, apparently the argument was over a stolen Playstation. Jonquel Brooks, a 19-year-old freshman at Fresno State was accused of stealing a Playstation by three other guys; when he was confronted by the three man, … Continue reading →

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The Digg fiasco

Posted on May 2, 2007 by steve

A very interesting thing happened at Digg yesterday. There was public posting of a HD-DVD decryption key, which was very promptly deleted by Digg’s admin. It created a public outrage of Digg users feel like they are being censored, and … Continue reading →

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