(Link dead) Just when it seems like BMG is making progress on their understanding of how to treat customers…Sony BMG, after announcing a recall of some 4.7 million CDs with the software on Wednesday, said on Friday consumers could mail their CDs to the company, and they would receive a new unprotected CD in return.Pending the processing of the exchange programme, consumers would also receive an email with details of a website where they could download the music tracks as unprotected MP3 files.

Can be summed up by… While self.alive: Work, Work, Work, Work, Work, Romancing Saga, Ratchet Deadlocked, (Father of the Pride, Disgaea,) Sleep, SleepEach word represents about the same amount of time, more or less.Ratchet Deadlocked isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. It seems much more linear in level design than the previous 3 however. Rental, going to return it on the 12th.Romancing Saga reminds me alot of Saga Frontier.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/11/03/secfocus_drm/ It’s actually been going on for a long time. This is why I run all CDs I buy through my linux box before I ever let them touch anything else…

Got a call at work, did the standard “X company, this is Kaz” and got some confused old lady mumbling something, apparently hung up (didn’t do a good job of it however, and didn’t say it was a wrong number.) I said “hello?” then she yelled at me “This is long distance, GET OFF THE PHONE!” Uh. You called me. You can just hang up and leave it there for a few seconds to cut the connection, right?

(Link dead) Hopefully they won’t succeed, else we may find ourselves falling to the lowest common denominator in freedom, where people like Mugabe and the chinese ruling party dictate worldwide internet laws.

Being a former BBS operator and Fidonet node, I’m often simultaneously awed and bewildered at how Internet technology lags behind and skips right past many of the innovations that we used in Fido. It’s always 0 or light speed on the net. Take Mbox and Maildir formats for instance. I came across this article today and it nudged me into thinking about the subject again.Both of these can sort of be seen as similar to technologies used in BBSes and Fido.

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=15046 What is interesting to me is the following line.The ROM Mark is a unique and undetectable identifier embedded in pre-recorded ROM media such as movies, music and games. While invisible to consumers, the ROM Mark can be mastered only with equipment available to licensed BD-ROM manufacturers. The Blu-ray Disc Association intends to ensure that only disks that contain the ROM Mark will be playable on Blu-ray systems, rendering piracy meaningless.

How do you know a forecaster really knows Hurricanes and what they can do? When they live in Colorado, where such things are unlikely to hit. ;) (Link dead)

In gas usage, that is. The trend I mentioned awhile back has gotten some attention in the press now. Seattle TimesThe thing I found most amusing about it is this line.The Dodge Neon, which Chrysler stopped making two weeks ago, saw a 69 percent increase.Dodge dropped the Neon in favor of the Calibur, which has an engine roughly the same size but newer and cheaper design, optional AWD, and is a station wagon styled like a gaudy SUV.

Which is really nice for us future PS3 owners, but the point I wanted to make was at the end of the article… Although it would be a little more expensive to release movies authored and inventoried in two different formats, it’s something the studios have done before with Betamax and VHS and laserdisc and 8mm, in some cases.How about Fullscreen and Widescreen? That’s another case of two separate copies of the same movie being stocked, and it happens all the time even now.