http://blog.laubenheimer.net/ Random thoughts, articles, ranticles, and musings from an iconoclastic geek. en-us Copyright 2007 Wed, 16 May 2007 12:58:42 -0800 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:55:34 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.0D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Amazon.com to Launch DRM-Free MP3 Music Download Store with Songs and Albums from EMI Music and More Than 12,000 Other Labels. Amazon's long awaited music download service is not laden with useless, crippling, and insulting DRM. Yes, Apple iTunes finally... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000071.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000071.html business Wed, 16 May 2007 12:58:42 -0800 Dear Jerk Food Producers, If I get a hold of one of your single serving containers of crap, and it says "0 grams of trans fat", I expect it to really be Zero. Yet if I read the ingredients list,... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000070.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000070.html ranticles Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:18:51 -0800 I've been fighting a losing battle with my energy usage for a good 20 years. With over 4 computers, three TVs and attendant recorders, two printers, a fax, two freezers, two fridges, two A/C units and two microwaves, my electric... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000068.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000068.html misc musings Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:29:43 -0800 News Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness, and Policy Failures Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP), a coalition of west coast social justice-based homelessness organizations, has released a report that documents how more than 25 years of federal... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000067.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000067.html WeltPolitik Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:50:34 -0800 You might enjoy gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" - Hugh MacLeod's card-toon blog. Lightweight, funny, and sometimes gets a real good zinger in. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a friggin' "A-list" blog, but the cartoons are... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000064.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000064.html misc musings Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:44:01 -0800 The recent BlogHer '06 conference was represented as a "mommy blogger" conference, with a subtext that all female bloggers (that counted anyway) were mothers blogging about their children, diets, relationships, celebrities and fashion - the traditional online female ghetto. Quotes... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000063.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000063.html hall of shame Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:29:45 -0800 So, now companies with slimy business practices and/or scummy politicians and lobbyists that are exposed in blogs are hiring trolls to comment and try to screw up the discourse: One more reason to be wary of feeding trolls. One company... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000061.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000061.html WeltPolitik Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:05:57 -0800 I chanced across a CNET article today, Newspapers woo bloggers with mixed results. Now, the story does reflect the journalist's tendency to either discount blogs as trash, or hail them as the savior of the online news community (but more... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000060.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000060.html misc musings Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:50:19 -0800 Layoffs as a Stock Booster I came upon yet another news article saying, essentially, the best way to improve an ailing company's stock price (hence value) is to lay off employees. It seems to be "conventional wisdom" in the quarterly... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000059.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000059.html ranticles Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:00:41 -0800 I am a systems engineer. This means I do internal infrastructure, and handle user issues. I'm not a software developer, but I'm not just a help desk person either. My area of specialty is Linux operating system and software, both... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000056.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000056.html misc musings Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:53:58 -0800 Well, Shel Israel responded to my comment in his blog here with: "ljl, I won't respond to this because you are anonymous. Tell me who you are and where you are coming from or I'll not post anything else from... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000055.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000055.html ranticles Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:36:03 -0800 Tempest. Teapot Oh, my. Robert Scoble (http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/) and Shel Israel (http://redcouch.typepad.com/) did a talk about blogging at Amazon last week. They are the authors of Naked Conversations, a book supposedly about the benefits of corporate blogging. From what has come... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000054.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000054.html work stuff Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:46:23 -0800 To the people who have clicked on my Dreamhost button, and decided that you wanted to do business with them, I say a hearty Thank You!! You see, Dreamhost gives credit against your bill for referrals. Now, I never expect... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000053.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000053.html misc musings Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:36:56 -0800 So, in the A9 Developer Blog, there is a new entry on SiteInfo Extension for Firefox. The basic SiteInfo specification is an XML format that the A9 Toolbar can read to let you provide navigation and menus for your site.... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000052.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000052.html linux Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:39:06 -0800 I've been at my current job for over a year, and I'm still happy with it. In the Silicon Valley, this is a remarkable thing. My list of problem users is less than 10% of the company. My boss is... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000051.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000051.html work stuff Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:54:58 -0800