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It’s been slow. It’s been weak. It’s been a slow week.

Updates are as such:

I took the kids out fishing in the canoe this week, we had a great time. Emma caught one fish. The home-made anchor worked fine, though you should note that when using a canoe, you really do need two anchors to prevent spinning around in circles.

In the ‘stats-geekery’ department, I finally got around to configuring the heck out of Analog, so I might have something to say about stats/bandwidth/etc real soon.

I still don’t understand why people enjoy using forums that contain almost nothing but photos from other people’s sites (using other people’s bandwidth) with almost no originality or creativity from the people who post. Wow, I can use Google’s image search and paste a url into a form. Sheesh… (Coming soon: allowing and denying action.)

I wish I had more time to write lately, as I have plenty to write about.

I’ve seen more than one instance this week of people who’ve basically said “Clean, valid, proper HTML? Why bother? The browsers will support crap, so I’ll write crap.” This of course is sad, really sad. I hope this isn’t the beginning of a standards backlash.

And now you’re gonna die, wearing that stupid little hat. How does it feel?

Ward says that A is for Apple.

Now where have I heard that before? ;)

Yesterday on the news they had said that many people were calling it ‘vi day’ – the emacs people were of course pretty pissed off about this…

In other news, Megan had her baby on Monday. It’s a girl!

Rasterboy Enterprises congratulates the Morrone family on the new addition.

Windows key leak threatens mass piracy: Oh sure, on the surface this looks like a bad thing for Microsoft, but put on your conspiracy hats and get ready for a ride!

Microsoft wants to sell software. And they will sell software. As long as Windows is running on a lot of computers, they will sell a lot of software.

They want to sell this software to get money. That’s simple, right? Right. Now, to use the old ‘razor blade’ argument, can we see that Microsoft can make money even if someone gets a free copy of Windows? Sure they can, they can sell you Microsoft Office, or Visio, or Project, or Publisher, or some games, and in doing so, they are selling software. Give away the razors, sell the blades. You can get a cell phone for free nowadays – with activation and a service contract – they’ll find some way to get the money they need.

So, let’s say that you can purchase a copy of Windows, or you can get an illegal copy – if you buy it, Microsoft gets your money, and you get the product. If you get an illegal copy, Microsoft does not directly get your money, but you do get the product. When you buy a new PC doesn’t Microsoft get a cut of that money? (I think they still do.) And by insuring that some people will get ‘free’ copies of Windows, they are ensuring that people will use it, and it will continue to be a dominant operating system.

Personally I’d like to see Microsoft crack down on any illegal copies, and add even more protection (return of the dongle?) so that installing and using Windows becomes so much of a hassle, no one in their right mind would do it. (Some would argue that you’d have to be out of your mind to use Windows anyway…)

Ok, that’s it. I’m done.