Author: Mike McBride

  • Mental vacation

    My mental vacation started around 2:30PM, for those of you keeping score at home. That was the time that I looked at my watch, thinking “gee it’s almost time to go, better make sure I do…”, only to discover that I’m still 2.5 hours away from heading out the door. I now await what will…

  • I don’t want to go outside, there are scary people out there..

    Picked up from Medley, in an article about the Gator lawsuit is this quote: Terence Ross of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the news publishers’ attorney, even told me that he thinks Internet users who configure their browsers to disable graphics (a common tactic to boost the speed of Web surfing) are committing copyright infringement because…

  • Interesting

    From Scripting News: This is so beautiful and symmetric. An ISP is banning the RIAA from its network. Now, let’s all of us think of ways we can erase the RIAA from our lives. This could get interesting. Indeed it will be interesting to watch this unfold. Surely the RIAA, once given power to monitor…

  • What can you expect?

    While I remain busy finishing up some work projects, I figured I’d drop a line and let you all know what to expect to see around here while I’m gone. First there’ll be Gnomedex reports, and pictures. I won’t be doing the real-time blogging that others will be doing, mostly because I can’t pay attention…

  • 3 days

    Yeah I’ve only got these 3 days to get through before I head off to Gnomedex Thursday morning. I can tell you, mentally, I’m already gone. *L* Not that I won’t do my job well and make sure all of my loose ends are tied up before I head out for what will be 12…

  • Further Thoughts

    I was thinking last night for a little bit about that EULA for Windows 2000 SP3, and some things occurred to me that I hadn’t thought of before. Now I’ll probably get flamed like hell for saying this, but after I got over the original knee-jerk reaction, I could see why Microsoft is doing this….