It seems that I'm not the only one having trouble adjusting to daylight savings time, but this is getting silly. Last night, after happy hour with some ex-cow-orkers, I swung by the Sporty for some smoke-free bingo. Won twice, scoring free mozz sticks and a beer. Ended up staying up past midnight again, which means a late start again this morning.
But hey, the computer seems to be running well again. I guess getting cool air to the CPU is kinda important, and a dust-bunny the size of a deck of cards covering the air-intake will inhibit that. Who knew?
- Rogers Cadenhead says In Open Source, All Wallets are Shallow and
An open source project isn’t a business — it’s a charity.
and points out that many successful products out there get mimicked by open source projects. But the real kicker is at the end of the article where he says:Perhaps I’m being obtuse, but if I was told an open source project’s lead developer needed user donations to make a living, I’d be less likely to contribute.
That is, if a project isn’t doing well enough to make a living for the people in charge without begging for donations, maybe you should take a look at how successful the project really is. [scripting] - If any single entity was going to have an impact on spam, you’d figure it would be Microsoft. Me, I would have figured they’d do something in software, but it turns out they’re using the courts, and Bill Gates proves real resolve in bringing spammers to justice. Good for them. [slashdot]
- In a new development, a Company Bypasses Cookie-Deleting Consumers by using Flash to track your movements on the web. Macromedia has put up documentation for the settings manager for Flash, so you can shut off the ability of these applications to track you. [slashdot]
- Want to know What Search Sites Know About You? Are you sure? It’s probably a lot more than you’d like to think about. [wired]
- Safari isn’t supported by the latest toy from Google Labs, Google Ride Finder, either. But then Google Maps does work with Safari, and just got satellite imagery. [metafilter]
- Looking to buy some folk music for your iPod? The Smithsonian Global Sound collection offers DRM-free MP3s for 99 cents per song. And they actually make an effort to get the royalties back to the composers/performers, unlike some more commercial entities who are busy
looking out for their artists
. [boing boing]