- Last night was another ugly outing for the Saints. It looked good through the 6th with Walters pitching, when suddenly the wheels fell off. A combination of missed defensive plays and an ineffective bullpen made for a six-run sixth for Winnipeg, and then a ten-run eighth. Once again, the game was closed by a catcher, as Alberto Vasquez got to pitch in the eighth and ninth. This makes three home-stands in a row that the Saints have lost, and they’re now in a near-three-way-tie with Joliet and Gary for the basement of the division. Gary’s half a game back and has to play Winnipeg today, so maybe that’ll keep the Saints out of last place for the second half, but I wouldn’t count on it. The Saints host Joliet this weekend.
- Will browser verdict snare others? Quite possibly. And it points out the problems in the software patent business. Here’s Larry Rosen’s take:
This is a fundamental problem. I think that the open-source community has to deal with patents head-on. The patent system is kind of broken for software. In many ways it’s too easy to get a patent, and too expensive to fight it.
- In their latest legal maneuver against IBM, SCO to argue General Public Licence invalid, saying that even GPLed works must be copyrighted. I dunno. Copyright law’s pretty weird, but I don’t think it’s as weird as they’re saying it is. Guess we’ll see.
- Well, QuarkXPress Comes to OS X finally. Was it worth the wait? Go read the review.
- Everybody hates getting called by telemarketers, right? Well, Skot treats them as a Captive Audience. Or at least as an audience. Go read it and laugh. I did. [izzlepfaff!]
- State moves in on Web calling service, saying that since Vonage looks like a phone company, it needs to be regulated as a phone company, and needs to provide proper 911 service, which it currently doesn’t.
- MobileTracker keeps an eye on the cellular industry. Review of new phones and stuff. More focused than Gizmodo so you can contain your lust for new toys.