Looks like EMI is ready to give up its principles on digital rights management in exchange for more money.
Sweet, sweet greed.
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Rgrs iz krstl clr in itz txt msgs lol.
Rogers, my cellphone provider, felt it necessary today to text me this message:
Change that boring ring ur callers hear 2 a cool tune w/CallerRingTrax. It’s fun & easy! Reply YES 4 more info. 2 opt out of mktg msgs reply STOP
Aside from the fact that it’s spam that I never asked for, and the fact that it’s insanely inconvenient and insults my intelligence, I can’t help asking the question: What is a 55-year-old technophobe who doesn’t speak l33t supposed to do when he receives this message and wants to stop further ones? Is it just assumed that everyone with a cellphone writes messages like a desperate-for-acceptance 12-year-old?
Speaking of Craigs
Canadiens General Manager Bob Gainey showed he has the poker face of a champion by trading longtime (and hard-working) Hab defenceman Craig Rivet.
Hopefully Bob still has something in his cards that will give us a forward who can score goals.
Meanwhile, the blogosphere is starting to react.
Some are doing it philosophically:
We who follow the Habs have known for a while that Craig Rivet might be traded, and there had already been considerable debate amongst fans about the value of that decision. It was a difficult, wrenching discussion, since it almost completely centered on the concept of ‘intangibles’.
Others not so much:
LATENDRESS RYDER AND HIGGINS SUCK. HEATLEY IS THE MAN. […] GO SENS GO
Meanwhile, the media in California seem to think this is a good deal for them too.
Dollar Cinema is dead. Long live Dollar Cinema
Tonight, in order to overcome an incredible surge of boredom, I went to Dollar Cinema to catch Casino Royale with the new Bond, Daniel Craig.
As I entered I noticed the Dollar Cinema is now a $2 cinema. It’s still worth going (popcorn and soda are still $1), but on principle it seems strange. Kind of like seeing stuff at the Dollar Store that’s more than a dollar.
The movie itself was OK. Craig makes a believable (though incredibly naive) Bond. But … is there a second part to this movie or something? I feel unsatisfied. He doesn’t even get a girl at the end! (Sorry if that spoiled it for you)
Montrealer wins unimportant Oscar
And most importantly, she was wearing a black dress when she did.
Congrats, Torill Kove.
It never rains but it pours
A girl ejected from a soccer game for wearing a hijab.
I’m not about to try to solve the reasonable accommodation debate here, but didn’t anyone predict that this would happen when they created a rule to ban religious headwear?
UPDATE: Jean Charest takes the referee’s side. Probably because the kids can’t vote.
A nucleodensimewhat?
Anyone seen one of these recently? If so, it’s probably stolen. (Gazette article)
Far offshore
Some New Zealanders are unhappy about an online gambling site run by a Costa Rican company with a Kahnawake gambling license.
Oh the complicated jurisdiction fight that is to ensue…
When polling goes bad
A new “poll” has determined that rich kids work hard, are responsible for their money and give to charity.
How did this scientific endeavour come up with these conclusions? It asked the rich kids what they thought of themselves.
Now strangely they find out the rich kids paint themselves in a positive light. And since rich kids wouldn’t lie or anything, it must be true.
Oh, and the control variable? You know, asking the not-so-rich kids what they thought of themselves as a basis for comparison?
They didn’t bother doing that.
And since “they” is a “wealth management company”, I guess we’ll just have to trust that they don’t have some sort of hidden agenda here.
On the return of Newswatch
Midnight Poutine has a review of CBC’s one-hour News at Six, focusing on their new sports commentator P.J. Stock.
The return to one hour of local news, which CBC hopes will bring it back into the same league as CTV as it was many moons ago, was first discussed back when I had a brief stint at the Corporation TWO YEARS AGO.
Hopefully future improvements won’t take as long.