The Copyright Royalty Board has rejected a request from NPR (and other webcasters) to reconsider its decision over a new pricing scheme for Internet broadcasts. Internet radio stations face the prospect of paying a much higher royalty fee than they have been paying, and what's more, apparently the fee applies retroactively to the start of… Continue reading Internet radio is dead, long live Internet radio?
Star Wars Exhibition
Now on at the California Science Center! Closes April 29th, but the kids are back at school already so now's the ideal time to take a half-day off work and head over to South Central. What? You want photos? OK.
Quarterly book sale!
This morning was the quarterly book sale at our local library. We scored a decent haul at $1 each for hardbacks and $0.50 for paperbacks. Plenty of books for mini-Elbeno (including a looks-like-new copy of Sheep in a Jeep). Other highlights for $1 each are a hardback like-new copy of Climbing Mount Improbable and a… Continue reading Quarterly book sale!
RotateAVI updated
The latest version has a minor update. Nothing functional, just a display thing. But every little thing makes it a bit easier to use. Rotate AVI files from your digital camera easily!
I signed up with Dreamhost
Watch this space… I'm currently domain-registered with GoDaddy, but ever since they a) switched to running parked domains on Windows, and b) took down seclist.org, I've been looking for a new registrar. Dreamhost seems to be flavour of the month for programmers, and I'm impressed enough to shell out for a 2-year plan. I've also… Continue reading I signed up with Dreamhost
an interesting conversation
I'm having a conversation with right now about his latest post. I am surprised he mixes home and work so freely. But enough about that. It made me think of a few observations about corporate life. Aristotle said: “The law is reason free from passion.” I say: “A corporation is greed unfettered by morality.” Or… Continue reading an interesting conversation
new printer
I'm fed up with inkjets. Every inkjet – every one – I've had for the last 10 years has lasted no longer than 2 years. One day, they just start dropping lines or printing strangely, probably because of a clogged head or waste tube or something. I tried to fix the last one, but it… Continue reading new printer
OpenWRT Port Triggering update
I don’t really have time to bundle my patches into a package or get them included in OpenWRT (must admit I was surprised to find they weren’t already there). But after having some enquiries from people seeking port triggering, I have posted the patch files and a short howto at www.elbeno.com.
KDevelop: so much promise, but a bit rough around the edges
I’ve been trying to put together an app using KDevelop as my IDE. IDE-wise, it seems fine: all the usual stuff like syntax highlighting (of course) and code completion, etc. But I find its handling of the gnu autotools a bit rough. I haven’t found a way yet to specify a build order for files,… Continue reading KDevelop: so much promise, but a bit rough around the edges
April
Ah yes, April 1st. The day when the Internet becomes useless because the various editors out there don't seem to understand that it is not an April Fools' joke when every bloody article you read is a bunch of useless tripe. Less is more, people. And since the Internet enables aggregation so well, that means… Continue reading April