Steven’s Notebook

Copyright expert Silver tells me that DRM (Digital Rights Management) isn’t a problem for people.
Well, ok. Most of the time.

Except when Jenny can’t watch her movie.
Except when Mike has trouble reading his e-books.
Except when a member of Switchfoot has to tell fans how to listen to the Switchfoot CD they bought.
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DRM - called by it’s […]

Firefox, the excellent browser from the Mozilla project, has been upgraded to version 1.0.7. If you’re using IE or an IE-based browser, it’s long since time to have switched.
This release is billed as a security and stability release, that’s normally a good reason to upgrade your system if you’re already a Firefox user. Bueried in […]

1. Read through John Gruber’s latest, Rhymes With Ditty
2. Laugh out loud, snorting milk out your nose.
Meanwhile… the Dogcow lives, though only in the archives of the web. Why would Apple remove the original from their knowledgebase? I’ll have to ask Joe to see if he can discover the rationale.

From 43 Folders, a post well worth reading: Writing sensible email messages.
As we’ve seen before, getting your inbound email under control will give you a huge productivity boost, but what about all the emails you send? If you want to be a good email citizen and ensure the kind of results you’re looking for, you’ll […]

A few weeks back I read a Stephen King’s The Gunslinger, based on the recommendation of a friend and commented that it was a “fascinating story.”
Big understatement.
When Bryant recommended The Dark Tower series, I joked that he’d be to blame if I couldn’t sleep for a week. I meant that I’d be too spooked to […]

Another week, another newspaper sale (the 9/8 issue, I’m just late in ‘blogging).
This time, they used this shot of “the Braveheart Boys” on the front cover. These guys paint themselves up to look like they’ve got football jerseys on and augment the cheerleaders.

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A black & white version of this shot, the first […]

High School football games here are on Friday nights, but the local paper doesn’t come out until the following Thursday. You’d think that gives me plenty of time to get my pictures ready, but not really. They want to put the paper to bed by Monday afternoon in order to send it to the printers, […]