Year: 2012

To the black Hyundai: yes it was raining, but on that road, in that rain, there was no need to go 20mph under the speed limit.  Trust me.

To the black pickup (make unknown), who was making a sharper than 90degree left turn onto the same road as above in the same rain.  SLOW THE HECK DOWN.  When your back-end swings out not just once, but three times as you fly around that turn and your front wheels skid wildly, you’re going WAY to fast for both turn and weather.

To the lady in the silver coupe (make unknown) who was so entranced by her smart phone that she missed her green turn arrow….put the phone down. 

To the driver of the newer model SUV (make unknown): Yes I came to a stop instead of trying to merge into moving traffic at the circle.  That time of day, at that location, there was no point in being a rude driver when I could already see I was going to have a nice big opening to pull into a whole 20 seconds later.  It was also a nice gentle, predictable stop, I in no way slammed on my brakes abruptly.  I’d suggest paying more attention to the car in front of you so that next time that happens you can stop at a reasonable distance behind them, instead of screeching to a halt next to them on the shoulder….

If when wandering through here you notice that my header image is gone (probly replaced with a gradient and red stripe since thats the auto image) please let me know (as well as what browser you have).  I’ve had to replace the image 3 times since the theme update yesterday…..

There is yet another theme update to be done.  Since I completed the child theme that is supposed to over ride with at least some of my corrections I’m going to go ahead and do the update now and finish any corrections after work…..yes I’m feeling overly brave this morning…..

Edit: and it looks like it worked.  Sweet.  I’ll finish the odds and ends that I couldn’t figure out how to do automatically later.

I thought about trying to do up a post, but I’m not very good at such things, and then I wandered over to Borepatch.  Yup, thats what I wanted to say.  Go read.

I know, I’m a bit late to the game.  I saw the news at the same time everyone else did, said “cool” and went back to what I was doing…..anyway, I just ran across this article explaining why doing so is so good for business, and it turns out its not JUST because customers get frustrated by DRM.  Its actually good business!

Now I’d assumed that all DRMing was done by the publisher, and maybe technically it IS applied by the publisher.  But the actual DRM is done by the owner of the reading format.  For example: the Kindle’s DRM isn’t the same as the Nook’s DRM, which I suppose shouldn’t have been such a surprise, but I didn’t realize how little control the publisher has over all of it.  Publishers are basically handing complete control of the ebook to the controller of the DRM, WHICH ISN’T THEM.  Now its not as bad as it could be, since most major publishers are putting it into as many (DRMed) formats as possible, but its still a massive loss of control.

And that just makes no sense.  At all.

And when you add in how much it can piss off your customers….well, then it REALLY makes no sense.

Oh, and btw, Facebook, you suck.   I saw this link on Facebook, linked to by someone else, and when I went to go read it, well, since the news source has its own Facebook app you can’t just click on the article link and read.   Nope, instead you have to approve the news source’s app (with god knows only how many other security holes and issues) before you can read an article of theirs that was linked to on Facebook.  No way no how am I approving ANOTHER app, thats going to track what I read and when and how often, and all that stuff.  If the fricking thing wasn”t so damned usefull for keeping track of people I never see otherwise I’d ditch it.