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[ Update 07/20/09 – According to the support staff at Skoobysoft, surplusmeter does not monitor tethering traffic… this is surprising since it’s done a fine job for me (I even tested it by downloading some files of known size and comparing the results), but others are having problems with it… see the comments below for […]

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I felt bad about not doing a Canada day-specific post last week so this feels pretty good. I had an uneventful trip to Ottawa today (an aside – why is it that just knowing you have a flight to catch at some point in the day – no matter when – always makes the whole […]

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Simon Owens of Bloggasm dropped me an e-mail today to let me know about a recent post he wrote about the “value” of a single link from the Huffington Post. He (rightly) uses it to point out some of the many absurdities of Richard Posner’s now-infamous blog post (the one about making it illegal to […]

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I keed, I keed. Seriously unless you haven’t read a computer-related website today you probably know that the notorious BitTorrent index PirateBay.org announced they’ve (tentatively) approved a sale to a Swedish technology company. Honestly I’m not sure what I think about this – this is not exactly a day with time for thoughtful, considered, reflection […]

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It’s nice to see that the Dutch haven’t cornered the market on ill-formed ideas relating to newspapers and the internet. I don’t really want to get into the details of Richard Posner’s blog post. The Tobin/Coover synopsis is that if it were illegal to link to or quote newspapers web-content they’d be in better position […]

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[Update – Excellent executive summary via a friend I was just talking to on the phone who is not terribly interested/versed in technology: “I get it, it makes more sense to just throw more tubes on the pile than paying engineers to constantly crawl through each one trying to figure out what’s in there.”] I’ll […]

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Billy Mays 1958-2009. Never before has a man sold so much hydrogen peroxide, in such varied forms, to so many, so loudly, for such incredible value. Out of all the high profile celebrity deaths this week the person I most likely would have wanted to grow up as, as a kid, would have been Mr. […]

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So as much debate as there was in this country about whether ISP’s should have to support development of new media initiatives, I think everyone on both sides of that debate can agree that at least we’re not tariffing ISP’s to support failing newspapers. On the other hand a videogame tarrif to support the Phonograph […]

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