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The long wait
The last time I posted anything to this blog was a couple of months before my daughter was born. She is nearly 21 months old.
A part of me wants to blame fatherhood for my failure to blog, but really, I’m just an extremely distractible person.
I kind of forgot I had this blog, and Facebook (and occasionally Twitter) became the default place for random thoughts and interesting links.
I suppose it’s of some comfort, that this blog never really had any readers. So while the wait may have been long, it affected few others than myself.
Anyway
I just had a lot of fun going through my short archive, and I find, that I like having that archive on my own server (well, Dreamhost’s server I guess). Owning your stuff seems to be having a revival, so I’ll try to keep more of my sharing right here on my own blog.
So follow along if you want. I tend to come across quite a lot of interesting stuff on this old Internet.
WordPress 3.0 is out
Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, andtaxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.)
I quite like the new default theme. Too bad every other site in the world will use it before long.
Apple Outsider » Google Rewrites History
Daring Fireball’s headline of the day is a bold quote from Google’s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra:
If we did not act, we faced a draconian future. Where one man, one company, one carrier was the future.
Good old competitive potshots are fair game, but this one is particularly offensive when one recalls Google acquired Android in August of 2005. That’s nearly 18 months before the world even knew about iPhone, let alone its carrier model or prospects for success. And it’s nearly a full three years before the App Store went live on July 11, 2008.
Google is a publicly traded corporation that controls the flow of more and more information every day. It’s very troubling to watch them rewrite history in such a self-serving manner.
What the hell is going on with this crazy Google vs. Apple rivalry?
I’m pretty sure they could coexist quite happily.
FCC hands Hollywood the keys to your PC, home theater and future
Cory Doctorow has a new piece up on Boing Boing about the FCC’s shameful decision to allow Selectable Output Control. Cory Doctorow sometimes goes a little far in his crusade against DRM. Don’t get me wrong, “far” seems a pretty good distance to go to rail against DRM, but in this particular case I’m not sure it’s far enough.
Now, the FCC could have solved this by saying that only movies that are in their first theatrical release run can have SOC turned on, but they didn’t, because they knew that the MPAA was lying through its teeth about using SOC to enable the “new business model” of showing you first run movies in your home.
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HP to Acquire Palm for $1.2 Billion
This seems like an awesome move for HP. And WebOS really does deserve to be backed by a company with some real backup mass.
From BusinessWire via Gruber