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Google Answers seems to be pretty effective.
My mom and Pam are in town, and I had dinner with them twice, and hope to see them again soon.
There was a partial solar eclipse, and I managed to watch it without injuring my eyes.
Some labels are actually going to sell popular songs without DRM, something I've advocated for a long time. If you want to create a "legal alternative" to infringing copies, your alternative should not be less functional than the illegal version. (Customers don't necessarily want MP3s because they can be had for free -- they also want MP3s because MP3 is a better format than proprietary DRM schemes! But in the past, people who wanted legal MP3 purchases of major labels' songs were unable to obtain them at all. The labels, assuming their customers were all out to break the law, kept insisting on DRM even when their customers constantly insisted that they hated it.)
Note that what's being sold here isn't actually MP3 yet -- but I think we're getting close.
I had a memorable dinner at Zante's Indian Pizza with Linda, Praveen, and Bernie (whom I'd never met before).
Declan dropped by the office on Wednesday; I've never met him in person before.
My arms are very sore again.
Did I mention that incredibly great job opportunity over at AAAS? You should be breaking AAAS's doors down to apply for such a job (except don't, because they need their doors, in order to do things like protect human rights effectively).
