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This is just classic. I was watching the news and literally waiting for the weather, then “Mark-e-fresh” blessed me with this lil gem, so I grabbed the FlipVideo and snagged it. Some damn fine reporting Mark… damn fine.

I’ve been wanting to start a blog dedicated to this stuff forever.  This picture just gave me the inspiration I needed to get it going.  Look out for whothehellisthatguy.com coming to a browser near you soon.

Evil Laugh

chasen: found a crazy intrusive site
chasen: world-tracker
chasen: .com
me: why do i want to go to an intrusive site?

Sometimes a project comes your way and you know you were meant for it. Regardless of the cost, the time it takes, or the dedication, you really just know you were meant for the job and feel humbled to play your part, no matter how big or small it may be. That’s how I’ve felt since I was offered to take the reigns of helping The Salvation Army to streamline their management system.

I don’t want to go into detail about what they currently have in place, but it’s sort of sad. Very old school, not hardly usable at all, and it runs quite a bit of their operation. We met with them yesterday and they are the nicest, most genuine people you’ll talk to. What a great team they have, all dedicating their efforts to help those in need. The least we can do is get them running on a usable, and extendable system which can actually save them time and not hinder it.

More to come as we get the plan figured out, but needless to say, I’m thrilled to work with them and know the end result is going to benefit more than rent to my landlord, it will continue to keep those who fought for our freedom, alive.

For the poor folks at Yahoo! who are still left, this just must hurt more and more every day that goes by.  Unfortunately they pain is nothing like the unknowing suckers who signed up for their DRM laden subscription based service will feel.

The Final Days of DRM: Yahoo Music Store Closing, Will Eat Your Purchased Music 

Digital Rights Management technology is dying, it’s becoming understood that hobbling tunes to enforce scarcity isn’t the best way to monetize the music business online. What about all the suckers who bought DRM laden music in recent years, though? When the Yahoo! Music Store closes its doors this fall, the company announced today, past customers dependent on their music “phoning home” to get license approval before playing are out of luck. They’ll be able to continue playing purchased tracks on a single computer, until they make any changes to their operating system.

Yahoo! now encourages customers to burn their music files to CDs. That may not be a terribly onerous requirement, but the point is that when you purchased a license for songs, everyone really meant it when they said this might not last forever.

The rise and fall of the Yahoo! Music Store will make for an interesting story some day, but for now the DRM story is particularly important. …

This is just classic.  Yahoo! wont put out any software that will clean up their mess from here because it will get abused, so you’re stuck with that quickly dying version of XP for as long as you can enjoy that Jonas Brothers LP.

Trixie agrees.