Ramble On

The Skype outage on August 16th
And there my friends, we have the first proof of the technological equivalent of the coordinated toilet flush.

Dear Facebook,
What James said
Hotel California is particularly appropo I thought.
You lose nothing implementing feeds and an OpenID consumer - and you gain a lot. You’ve already shown you had a modicum of sense - but going only part way doesn’t cut it.
Now get with the program.
p.s. This will also be my last [...]

I’m in complete agreement with The Dinner Table Rule

The dinosaurs wrapped up the badger campaign with today’s comic.
If you weren’t following along with the home game - here’s the wrap-up of all the badger related comics - because bad jokes (and dumb ideas) need to be run into the ground

Badgers
The Syndication Dream
Duel!
Safe Intarnets

Clearly this is the best blog warning system yet (via Rui Carmo).
Of course, there’s still the badgers - which got James’ vote today

Thanks to a couple of line changes in the wpLicense plugin - namely after line 384 - adding:
add_action(’atom10_head’, ‘cc_atom_head’);
and because of what is likely an output buffering issue somewhere - I had to change line 84 from:
link rel=”license” type=”text/html” href=”‘.licenseUri().’”
to:
link rel=”license” type=”text/html” href=”‘.get_option(’cc_content_license_uri’).’”
(yes, I need to debug this - it’s kind of a hack)
I now [...]

Ars Technica: University of Wisconsin Decides Not to Pass Along RIAA Settlement letters (also at recording industry vs. the people)
“These settlement letters are an attempt to short circuit the legal process to rely on universities to be their legal agent,” Brent Rust, communications manager for the school’s Division of Information Technology
FANTASTIC!

I mean irregardless of the fact that they have the inside scoop on details about the Apple-Cisco iPhone agreement that no one else has - clearly they go places where no other journalist goes.
namely:
Cisco must Photoshop back in the Apple logo on the laptop being used by the guy on the company’s home page.

That might [...]

If you aren’t following Jessica Hagy’s “indexed” site, you are missing out.
This is much, much, much, much better than the popular (and why, I don’t know) gaping void site.
Today’s gem:

(please note: this does not describe my boss. It does indeed describe some other bosses I know however )

From Terry Chay:
At work one of the printers is named “paperjam” and the other is “treekiller.”
I printed out my stuff on treekiller.
I so now want to ask NC Extension to name our group printer “PC Load Letter”
Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.