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Monthly Archives March 2007

Patents and Universities

This story about a patent case related to Bluetooth technology caught my attention this morning. There is a previous case against handset providers as well.
Here’s my problem with it: the research was done at a public university, specifically, my alma mater the University of Washington. In fact, the undergrad in question was in my department [...]

Posted 28 March 2007 † Andrew § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

New Modest Mouse

I picked up the new Modest Mouse album this weekend. I’m really liking it. I’m a huge Johnny Marr fan and his influence works much better than I would have expected. Who would have thought a band from Issaquah would hook up with the legendary master from The Smiths?It’s right up there with the excellent [...]

Posted 26 March 2007 † Andrew § Entertainment ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Bye Bye, Wordpress

In case you missed it, wordpress.org got hacked. This is the final straw for me. I’ve been growing more and more dissatisifed with wordpress so I think it is time to move on to another blog package.
Previously, I used Movable Type. Wordpress was a significant upgrade. But I don’t enjoy hacking PHP much and frankly, [...]

Posted 07 March 2007 † Andrew § Technology ‡ Comments (3) °

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