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We were young and we needed the money

Oh my, how times have changed. Hey Mitch, the guy who’s going to destroy your company? The baby-faced one to your right. Just so ya know.

And remember, with Macintosh, you can design your own font faces if you don’t like the ones supplied and illustrate your own illustrations!

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Sony’s Rootkit

It’s been a very interesting week for Sony, BMG and the internet in general. If you havn’t been following the story of how certain Sony CDs install a rootkit on your computer, go catch up. It’s pretty frightening.

More frightening has been Sony’s response to the situation. I can
understand that they want to protect their works, but the method in
which they’ve gone about it leaves much to be desired.

Update: The EFF has an interesting piece on the EULA that comes with the SONY-BMG compact discs. What a nightmare.

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Dbeunknig teh mtyh

Remember that wacky paragraph that went around the internet a while ago with all the weirdly misspelled words? It turns out it’s probably not true.

I totally bought it.

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The men of C++ calendar?

I’m inspired. Hillel sent me a link to the conference he was attending last week, DevConnections (he was on the C++ track). After viewing the speakers list, I’m sure I make my first million with a “Men (and woman) of C++” calendar.

Definitely. Look for it on shelves soon.

And if it’s a hit, I already have material for a second edition!

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Mochikit is so ridiculously hot

Mochikit is one of the many Javascript frameworks to pop up recently. It’s inspired by a lot of the functional programming fun from python and looks like it’s quite nice to use. Bob put up a screencast that shows off a bunch of the features… Definitely worth checking out if you’re doing Web 2.0 / AJAX / DHTML / whatever the hell we’re calling it this week.