The water got in around the power control bits. Hoping a few days under a hot lamp might coax it back… Not likely.

planning out the terms of reference for the big project. it’s going to be an interesting year.

starting the paperwork for the school council AGM coming up. lots of fun.

the New York Times is piloting their paywall system in Canada. I thought I’d click around the website until it got triggered. Eventually, I got a warning pop-in, saying I had only one article left. Click. You must subscribe to see more.

I don’t actually have a problem with their paywall model. It’s their newspaper. It’s their content. It’s their website. They can do what they want. But, it was a ridiculously trivial process to thwart the paywall and regain full access to the NYTimes without subscribing. A couple of CSS overrides, and a javascript toggle.

I have no intention of leaving my blockerblocker in place. It works fine, but I don’t really have much use for full access to the NYTimes website. As others pointed out, it’s also trivially possible to bypass the paywall by enabling “private browsing” mode in a browser. Not an impressive way to design the “drm” to base the fortunes of a multimillion dollar news enterprise on.

Evan spent some time exploring in Second Life this afternoon, exploring Hawaii, NASA island, and winding up in Borocay. He loved the medical facilities on the island.

but not for long. I was just about to slap a shiny new 750GB drive into the laptop, tripling the room we have for stuff. It was getting a little cramped before, after filling the stock drive. The laptop also feels a wee bit faster, after jumping up to a 7200RPM drive. It benchmarks at about 50% faster for disk throughput. That ain’t bad…