A Wandering Eyre

I am trying to get back into the swing of reading some of my feeds every some most days. It is a lurch and go process, but we shall see. I have trouble getting in the mood to write when I feel so disconnected from everything and I need to get motivated about writing, like [...]

I have been listening to TWiT, The Week in Tech podcast, for a little while now and I really like the banter on the show. I am a couple weeks behind, but show 219 had a great discussion of net neutrality. The transcript is available, but here are my two favorite quotes:
Jason Calacanis: But for [...]

You will never be able to make everyone happy. Please accept this and move on.
I am going to poke my head out of Dragon Age Origins long enough to write this post and make sure the Dog is still watching the Bairn. For more about how Dragon Age has disrupted the Rochester household, see these [...]

Last week something happened that did not make big news, but it should have.
Timothy Vernor, an eBay vendor, won a court case in the state of Washington against Autodesk, the makers of AutoCAD.
Verner was selling used versions, not copies, of AutoCAD in his eBay store. Autodesk contended that because software is licensed by users [...]

There has been some controversy regarding baseball’s origins recently. According to Julian Norridge, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey mentions baseball well before it was reported to have been invented in America. Furthermore, Norridge says that there is mention of the sport in a diary from Surrey dated 1775.
I do not care where or when baseball [...]

All is well in the Rochester household, though we are still without cable and internet. A small loss, comparatively, but largely felt by all concerned. I have appropriated the Grandparents Eyre’s computer for a couple hours to go through my obese email inbox and type this missive.
When it became apparent two weeks ago that [...]

Geez, I ignore a feed for a couple days and all hell breaks loose. This is what happens, gentle readers, when you do not pay attention to things.
The Smart Bitches, they are smart you know, have uncovered a huge plagiarism scandal by bestselling romance author Cassie Edwards. If you go to their website, you [...]

I have had a filtering post bubbling about for awhile. I think this may be a week for griping about idiotic technology choices. Filtering and firewalls will come later. Today, I present to you, ignoring half of the argument in favor of making yourself appear right. It’s called balance; let’s find some.
One of my students [...]

I am, as you can see below, catching up on feeds. Here are some tidbits to get you through Hump Day:

Yet another reason not to tell people online where you live, especially if you are an arsehat.
LOTR MMORPG seems to be getting advice from the Bush Administration.
Oh, Shiny Pretties. Me want.
A computer game for children [...]

Kathy Sierra was on CNN today and has a final post on her blog. I am very sad that we are losing Kathy to a handful of sick people. She has been a tremendous voice for a revolution in the way we think about the people we serve. I hope that Kathy knows that many [...]