Sunday, December 18, 2005

"Analog hole" legislation introduced

This is really getting out of hand. It is going to get to the point where we won't be able to listen to or watch anything at any time without paying something. And to blame piracy, which will not be affected at all by this legislation, is just ridiculous. This kind of legislation is really going to limit the growth of technology. I am tired of these companies out there protecting their old business models, and trying to legislate new business models without letting the market decide. This is not what this country is supposed to be about. Read more at arstechnica.com/news.ar...

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Zeroconf and Firefox

Has anyone done an extension for Firefox that implements Zeroconf? I'm looking for a cross-platform extension that uses Zeroconf (a.k.a. Bonjour) to discover local services. I found one random link on a message board that is over a year old, but it doesn't work the Firefox 1.5, and it didn't look like it was quite finished anyway.

Monday, December 05, 2005

Mayor Phil


Mayor Phil
Originally uploaded by ryandobson.

Punxsutawney has recently added these colorful little statues around town in various stops. Alexis and I took some time out of the Thanksgiving break to try and snap as many photos as possible of them. We managed to capture 15. I believe we missed at least one of them, though, after talking with my aunt, there is a "Builder Phil" near the TrueValue hardware store.