Make a wish

*deep breath*, originally uploaded by JKonig. I logged into Flickr this morning to discover this absolutely rotten piece of news – and if there is one person (who I have never met and lives half-way around the world from me) for whom I could make a wish that nothing bad …

links for 28-02-2007

[ARTICLE] Wired 15.03: Snack Attack! All the spoilers you could ever want – ruin someone’s life by forwarding it on 😀 [via Digg] [GEEKINESS] Coding Horror: Why Does Vista Use All My Memory? I have to say I am not thrilled with the SuperFetch concept, especially if it means my …

Goodbye del.icio.us – it was time to roll my own

Well for a long time now, I’ve been using del.icio.us as a means of blogging the various articles I read on the web. I would add a bookmark in delicious and every night, the links would appear in my blog along with my tags and descriptions – all very neat. …

Borrowing words

Sometimes I feel like I don’t have a partner Sometimes I feel like my only friend its the city I live in, the city of angels Lonely as i am, together we cry — Red Hot Chili Peppers, Album: Blood Sugar Sex Magik – City of Angels Since I’m no …

A short lived prank on Wikipedia

Not quite sure how, but I wound up on a page on Wikipedia listing unusual deaths through the ages. Right at the bottom the entry for 2007 included an item for Kevin Rose – apparently he “died” choking on holiday-themed beer. By the time I refreshed the page the entry …

The cost of Fairplay

A final point on the post about Steve Jobs’s letter to the music industry. In episode 84 of TWiT, Hahn Choi points one important factor in Apple wanting to keep DRM (especially FairPlay) on the iTunes Music Store. DRM adds lock-in. As Hahn points out – Since FairPlay is not …