19 Dec 2003
The bleeding edge indeed

I saw this on CNN last night but was too depressed to post it directly. Guess I'm still on the "bleeding edge" of technology after all ...

235,000 Fewer Programmers by 2015 [Slashdot]

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Censored songs in Windows

Censored songs in a Windows only format for 11 cents less ... hmmm, I think I'll stick to iTunes.

Wal-Mart Sells Songs for 88 Cents. The retail giant rolls out its new online music service, which boasts songs edited to remove offensive lyrics, and a price designed to undercut iTunes and other competitors. [Wired News]

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Outstanding
D.C. Circuit accepts Verizon's statutory interpretation and reverses

Here's some of the order:

Because we agree with Verizon’s interpretation of the statute, we reverse the orders of the district court enforcing the subpoenas and do not reach either of Verizon’s constitutional arguments.

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[T]he text of § 512(h) and the overall structure of § 512 clearly establish, as we have seen, that § 512(h) does not authorize the issuance of a subpoena to an ISP acting as a mere conduit for the transmission of information sent by others.

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For the foregoing reasons, we remand this case to the district court to vacate its order enforcing the February 4 subpoena and to grant Verizon’s motion to quash the July 24 subpoena.

So ordered.

See also this news story.

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Frustrations

Due to continuing frustrations with Radio Userland, as well as the upcoming renewal cost (due in February, which'll mark my first complete year blogging), I'm considering moving this blog to a new platform, and consequently a new address.

The address thing will also address some confusion - I run a web hosting service behind The Raven Banner, and some folks Googling have wondered whether the Raven Banner is a blog or a hosting company.

As to platform, I'm looking seriously at Blosxom. I like the simple, file system like structure (I used a similar scheme in many of my telephony products). I like the very minimalist approach to "flavoring" a site. Plus, it's true Open Source software - unlike Moveable Type, which also requires a database setup and is somewhat more complicated to configure.

I'll have to considerably revamp my "publishing system" - including finding a new RSS aggregator (one that hopefully works better than Radio has been of late) and a new system for pinging weblogs.com and other utility functions.

Anybody out there have any comments?

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