Monday, February 12, 2007

Barak Obama's anti-war speech

From the article:

"I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences.I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East.I am not opposed to all wars.I’m opposed to dumb wars".

I don't know a lot about this guy, but the man can make a good speech. If what he says isn't just empty promises, then I believe this man would make a good president.



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Thursday, February 8, 2007

DRM = Evil

You know it's bad when the creator of the most widespread DRM says it has failed miserably. There has to be a better solution to this, I certainly wouldn't mind paying for music if I knew that the artist was going to get their fair share of the money.

A great quote from John C Dvorak "During the heyday of Napster and open free music sharing and trading, when million of people swapped songs, the CD business was booming. Once Napster was shut down, and along with it the social network of music discovery, sales began to plummet. They are still falling."

"Apparently these people are clueless about their own industry and how it works."

It seems like the record industry is figuring out that it's lost it's monopoly on music distribution and is trying every trick in the book to hold on, only time will tell.





From the Economist: Music wants to be free

The Economist's take on Job's new DRM stand. This focuses more on the business angle of Job's decision than on why DRM is 'evil'.



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Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Don't be misled by these 10 Windows Vista myths

Good article if your thinking of upgrading to Windows Vista.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Wow... a blog

Well I guess I'll give this blog thing a shot, but be warned many ramblings, bemusing, general broken thoughts and fuzzy logic ahead, You were warned.