Day July 6, 2005

Are we having fun yet? Ah … no

So, I decide to backup my notebook computer using Norton Ghost, which does so in an arcane fashion by dropping to DOS, backing up everything, then rebooting into Windows. It does this because you can’t backup everything while in Windows…

China launches game of Go

For the past months, economists have been wondering why China just keeps letting the its U.S. balance of payments get more and more lopsided. Now it is becoming clear. China is launching a game of Go. The prize is control…

Logging, death, and protests

The battle to stop Pacific Lumber from illegal logging and environmental destruction in Humboldt County reached epic proportions. Tree sitters, court battles, and a death which many enviros consider to be murder. On a September day in 1998, the bearded redhead…

The Bushies will probably say this helps the terrorists

Euro Software Patents are DEAD! w00t!. Cory Doctorow: You have won the fight to keep software patents — America’s disastrous, failed system for awarding exclusive rights to mathematical instructions — out of Europe. Despite the other side’s nonstop dirty tricks,…