More Hitchhiker's radio plays? This makes me quite happy!

Yeah - so I upgraded my router over the weekend. It used to run RedHat Linux 8.0 and now it runs Fedora Core 2. Huzzah! There are a few minor glitches, but nothing that is visible to the outside world - or so I thought. Turns out it caused my mail server (an entirely separate box, running a different OS) to start bouncing everything except my ISP email (which is spamtastic), and gmail. Guess what I tested email with? Soooo, if you tried to email me over the weekend and it bounced, my apologies. I think things are fixed now - try to resend. If you still have problems, I'd appreciate if you could drop me a line at timothy.sanders@gmail.com and I'll see what I can do about it.

Cory Doctorow gave a talk at Microsoft about Digital Rights Managment, and why it's bad - especially why it's bad for Microsoft to pursue and the opportunity they have to score bigtime with consumer. Read it here.

Played some NFL Street and James Bond:Everything or Nothing online Monday. I had actually played NFL Street a couple of times against the Cheesehead - but there's a huge gap in our relative football video gaming skillz. (Translation - Seth trounced me, badly) NFL Street was fun - but it really brings home that NBA Street was a much better game. I hope EA coughs up an online version of that soon. Bond was terrible. The level designs seemed shitty and annoying, but that was entirely overshadowed by the network locking up and freezing every minute or so. Given that it was only two players in the game, it was the worst network gameplay I've seen in a few years. Boo hiss. I don't recommend bothering with EON online.

Go read this guy's blog. It's worth your time. Not convinced? Try this snippet: communication skills this is the area that most developers are just completely and utterly lacking in. i'm a developer myself, and i can't even stand talking to these fuckers. can you think of any way to have a more awkward conversation that just having to chat with the typical developer? trust me...i don't want to hear about your triumphant saturday afternoon where you finally got your piece of shit linux distro to recognize your 3 year old cd-burner.