The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is ruining music. Using gestapo-like tactics, baseless threats, lawsuits too great to number, and demanding ill-conceived and poorly deployed DRM (digital rights management) schemes, the RIAA is driving people away from legitimate purchases of their music. Who is the RIAA? The RIAA is an association of the major [...]
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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Jun 29
Birthdays
Whether by coincidence or design the bulk of my family has birthdays all in one big lump. My wife’s birthday is June 24th (which is also the day we moved into our first house back in 1998). My oldest son’s birthday is June 26th. My youngest son’s birthday is June 29th. My daughter (December 8th) [...]
Jun 28
Techna Glass: Clearly the best… unless you're late
My wife’s windshield started growing a crack a few weeks ago, and with a family vacation coming up she didn’t want to risk the whole windshield imploding out in the middle of Podunksville (or while en route to or from Podunksville). We called our insurance agent and got some recommendations; Techna Glass was on the [...]
Jun 28
Federal Website not Standards' Compliant
The FAFSA site from the U.S. Department of justice is not compatible with Firefox! When attempting to click on their form buttons nothing happens. The cursor doesn’t even turn from an arrow into a hand (the univeral “this is a clickable link” indicator)! Why does the Federal Government limit their sites to non-standards compliant browsers?!Tweet
Jun 26
JoeLevi.com v3.0
In General I like products and services offered by Google (Google Earth, Blogger, Search, etc.), but there comes a time in a man’s life when he has to step back and do things for himself and stop relying on the free things offered by others. That day is today… okay, it really started a few [...]
