Monday, February 12, 2007

One of life's finer pleasures

I know the warning on the Q-Tips box says, "Do not insert into ear canal," but how can something that feels so good be wrong?

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

The End of DRM?

What do you think of Steve Jobs' pronouncement that the world would be better off without DRM? (Click here to read it.) Is this the beginning of the end for DRM? What struck me as most interesting is his claim that less than 10% of all songs bought worldwide are from digital music stores. That means 90% of songs still come from CDs. If that's true, it seems pretty hard to believe.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Vocabulary Lesson #4

whelm (v.) - to neither impress nor disappoint. What happens when you're neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed. Saying "I was whelmed" is pretty much like saying, "this occurrence may as well not have taken place and left no lasting impression."