As weeks go, it wasn’t one of the better ones. I’m not going to list all the gory details, but there was plenty of crap flying around this week. While I brought some of it on myself, I had plenty of help, too. At this point, my plan is to just keep plugging along. Not much else to be done, as far as I can tell.
This weekend looks like it should be warm and sunny. I fear I’m going to end up spending too much of it in a car, but things are still fluid. Here’s hoping I’ll get at least a few minutes to get out and enjoy the warm before things get cold again next week.
- In Europe, JURI Votes: It’s Restart time for software patents. They’ve thrown out earlier proposals and are starting again. It will be interesting to see what sort of protection software gets in Europe when this is done. Hopefully software patents won’t be part of the deal. [boing boing]
- I like Claire’s Dark Satanic Cubicles: It’s time to smash the job culture! Don’t be part of the statistic: 180 Trillion Leisure Hours Lost To Work In 2004. [claire and doc]
- A February heat wave thaws campus and the areas around it. It was a nice day for a walk yesterday, as long as you could keep your feet dry. Many puddles around. [daily]
- I’ve felt this way: Beware Twin Cities drivers: You stink. My current favorite to gripe about is the left-lane bandit on the freeway who will slow down when passing another car, and then speed up when out in the clear so you can’t get past. On Tuesday, there was one guy who would drop to 65 (in a 70mph zone) when he was to the left of another car, and got as high as 90 when I tried to get beyond the rolling roadblock he was creating. [daily]
- This Ballistics photoset on Flickr has cool pictures of things being shot by a .22. Spiffy. Sadly, they’re old pictures and the guy doesn’t have the setup anymore, so there won’t be any more. [boing boing]
- Lovely. A New zombie spam technique may send spam levels through the roof because people can’t keep malware off their Windows machines. [jr]