The Guardian has a damn interesting article about the new Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology about to hit consumers with HD and Blu-Ray: The Advanced Access Content System backed and co-developed by Sony, Toshiba, Intel, IBM, Panasonic, Microsoft, Warner Brothers and Disney. This quote from Mike Evangelist of HD Boycott puts it in perspective:

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Dear God Almighty … this has got to be the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages. I’ve long been a big fan of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, and Steven Colbert has always been one of the highlights of the show. This, however, has raised Colbert to another level (or a new low, depending on your outlook on life). The man has some serious balls to lampoon Bush to his face. Ten points! And if he gets shot, we know who did it.

Check out parts 1-3 on YouTube.

Update: Looks like the YouTube version got pulled due to copyright infringement (puke), so you can get another version here.

Just trying out a new Firefox extension I installed called Performancing. It’s pretty impressive as a quick way of posting to your blog via Firefox, allowing you to choose categories to post to, maintain multiple blog accounts, a decent WYSIWYG editor (or source code editor) and a few other nifty features.

And yes, I know my permalinks don’t work. Will try fix that up tomorrow. Hey, of course there are going to be some teething troubles!

At long bloody last I’ve got my blog up and running again. It only took me a year or so to get it done, but here it is. The reason my blog disappeared (not that I expect anyone was reading the last one and is still visiting) was because it got hacked by a bunch of phishers to set up an eBay scam. I like to think someone hacked in because I pissed off someone enough to get them to shut the site down. The truth is probably a lot less glamorous.

So, hey. Good to be back. Another voice to the bewildered horde of bloggers.