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Entries for December, 2008

Why the RIAA ISP-Route is Likely to Fail

The latest news out of the RIAA is that they are ending their war on the consumer, instead focusing on ISPs in their pursuit of three-strikes types of rules where repeat offenders would be kicked off the internet. There are several important implications of this type of behavior, but I think the biggest thing to [...]

I Hate Fake Presents

XMas is a great time of year, for sure. I don’t like it because of the religious aspects or anything, I just like it because I get to spend time with my family and I don’t have to go to work. Don’t get me wrong, I go all out every year on gifts and a [...]

A Good Day

Today is a good day, and it’s only getting started! First, the greatest news that’s happened in a while- the RIAA has publicly stated that they are ending individual lawsuits against file sharers! Of course, there’s the 35,000 individuals that unfortunately got sued and lost money needlessly, so it’s hard to forgive still. The greater [...]

Franken-Coleman

I’ve been watching a lot of the Al Franken-Norm Coleman battle in the Minnesota Senate race lately. At this point, I know more about Minnesota election law than my own. I’ve been a longtime fan of Al Franken, and I think it would be great to see him in the Senate. I think he will [...]

Five Best Albums of 2008

2008 was a good year for music – there were a lot of standout albums by some heavy hitters this year (at least one of which is returning to form after about a ten year absence). It was a pretty evenly paced year, every release coming a few months apart. Here are my picks for [...]

GoDaddy can be a Nightmare

GoDaddy, a web host I use for several sites, won’t let existing IIS6 accounts be upgraded to IIS7 without having to cancel your hosting account and recreating it. I emailed them about the problem, and their response was that this is a setting that needs to be set at account setup. Unfortunately, I setup my [...]

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