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Josh Kinberg has a great post about YouTube and how they rode obvious copyright infringement to success. I’m not a fan of YouTube, in my opinion, they’re doing video on the web wrong, wrong, wrong…

My take on this: There is a part of the population that seems to live solely to republish that which they have no right to republish (it’s probably the same folks who steal your bandwidth by displaying images on your server in every forum they sign up for.) These are people who usually don’t think about it, they just figure “if it’s out there, it’s up for grabs.” Maybe they’ve never created something that they felt they had the rights to control. I don’t know…

There is also a part of the population that is creative, and actually makes their own media, using only that which they have the right to use. This is the future of the internet, creation of art and media by the people, not just theft and redistribution of content. Every time I see a videoblog post that uses music that I’m 95% sure the creator did not get the rights to use, I plan on leaving a comment asking about it. I think it’s sad that many in the videoblogging community still do this, and think that it may fall under fair use (when it clearly doesn’t) or brush it off saying they are not making any money from it, or that they are helping promote someone else…

If we are truly going to “be the media” we need to act responsibly in what we do.

I’ve been using Bluetooth with my Nokia phone seamlessly for the last 8 months when all of a sudden things sort of stopped working. I say “sort of” because some things worked, like sending files to the phone from the Mac using Bluetooth File Exchange, and the iSync stuff worked fine, but I could not send things from my phone to my Mac.

Some quick searching came across what sounded like the same problem Broken Bluetooth Mac OS X 10.4.4, and a small mention on a MacInTouch 10.4.4 page: “Since upgrading to 10.4.4 on my dual 2.0 G5, my Bluetooth no longer communicates with any of my devices.”

I tried re-establishing the connection between the phone and the Mac, and that didn’t work, I tried standing on my head while pressing “Send” and that didn’t work, and I then tried chaning a bunch of settings in my Bluetooth Preference Pane, and that sort of worked!

I’ll need to do more tests, but it seems like if I open the Bluetooth Preference Pane, and click around between the ‘Settings’, ‘Devices’, and ‘Sharing’ tabs while I hit “Send” on the phone, it will work, and files will transfer. I’ve done this a few times now, and I’m hoping it’s not just coincidence.

I’ve not yet installed the 10.4.5 update, (Apple, when you will stop requiring a reboot for these updates!?) but that might fix the problem. We’ll see…

Since I’ll be using the Java and the JSP, I’ll be needed Tomcat for the Mac OS X.

The simplest way to do so seems to be by getting Server Logistic’s Complete Tomcat 4.1.24 package. And yes, it’s okay that it’s Tomcat 4.x and not 5.x since that what I need to use…

Onward and upward to The World of Java!

I love watching the Olympics, and I know I’ll get in trouble for this… but I love watching people wreck.

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t want anyone to get hurt, but seeing people wipe out can be quite spectacular. The “Ooooh! That’s gotta hurt!” responses and all that. Pure Gold!

I blame television for this, more specifically, ABC’s Wide World of Sports. As a child I remember seeing Vinko Bogataj wipe out week after week to the phrase “…the agony of defeat…” While it’s amazing to see athletes do the things they’ve trained to do, and do them spectacularly, it can be even more amazing to see something happen that no one ever expected to happen. Um… spectacularly!

I’d be the first in line to order a DVD titled “Blooplympics: Wipe-outs, Crashes, and Wrecks from the 2006 Olympic Games” or something like that… Maybe they’ll show a blooper reel at the end…