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Mon, 3 Sep 2007

12:31 AM - Harry Potter, etc

Caryn and I went to see the most recent Harry Potter film in the theater today. I know it's a bit late, but we finally got time to see it. I liked it, but it seemed different than the other films. Obviously the tone of the book is different, but there was something else I can't put my finger on.

Some asshole decided to cut in front of us at Meijers today. He felt it was OK because we looked young and he was much larger than me. He ordered his girlfriend to "cut in front of these nice people". There were a lot of U of M students buying cartloads of alcohol and he assumed we were part of that crowd. Regardless, it was uncalled for.

I've seen a lot of negative activity at Live Journal. They seem to be banning users for links to adult content in friends and private posts. That seems unfair. They used to have very loose rules about blogging material.

NBC and Apple are fighting about pricing structure and DRM. NBC does not want to allow users to keep content and they wish to charge $5 an episode. This will effect NBC content and Universal content. You will see no more Monk, Psych, The Office, or NBC News clips. They also partially own the History Channel and A&E. I don't know what will happen with that content. I'm mad because I buy Monk and Psych episodes on iTunes. I have every episode of Monk to date (season 2 is on DVD) and almost every episode of Psych. I don't want to wait for DVD sets nor pay the premium for DVD versions. I may get a PVR or just record on VHS or get a TV tuner working on my PC again. Screw them. Universal is the reason we have a format war. They support HD-DVD along with Toshiba.

I'd complain about this to NBC, but their contact forms are very selective. Perhaps I should complain to their parent company, GE.

location: Home
music: Folsom Prison Blues

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12:43 AM - My Interview

In case you missed it, I was interviewed for bsdtalk. You can hear interview 126 at http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/

bsdtalk is a podcast about and for the BSD community. This interview is about MidnightBSD of course.

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