Tom Lachecki

Apple's the latest firm to realise that DRM is A Bad Thingâ„¢, as Steve Jobs urges the entertainment industry to give up on the restrictive software which nonetheless isn't capable of doing the job it's supposed to.

Just what is our obsession with age these days? It seems sensible that there exist lower limits on things like driving, drinking and sex, but everyone seems to have forgotten that these limits only sit at comfortable integer boundaries because "when they're ready" isn't sufficiently logically quantifiable.

This article is directed towards Information Services at the University of Nottingham, as a partial follow-up to their ongoing dialogue with representatives of the student body.

A bunch of workers at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport are describing a grey saucer which hovered over Gate C17, span (or maybe not) then shot up through the clouds leaving a hole behind in its wake.

The Telegraph is reporting that "Britons flying to America could have their credit card and email accounts inspected by the United States authorities following a deal struck by Brussels and Washington."

I wrote a few months back about web engineers worldwide fighting to stop the advance of the false notion that using getElementById shortcuts is a good idea.

I'd imagine this is a fairly easy mistake to make, albeit one of those head-slapping "oh my god" fallacies that one would try pretty carefully to avoid if one knew there were more than one town named "Sydney" on this Earth.

Here's another example of the entertainment industry being stupid: claiming that they lose $244 million from the transfer of certain copyrighted material in China, and then in the same article admitting that the material in question isn't even available commercially in China. How can you lose out on potential sales, when there's no potential for sale?

I was ready for the idea that Vista might change Microsoft's reputation for 'security'. Naturally, I wasn't entirely surprised to find that this will probably not be the case, as Vista is showing up to be more or less just as insecure as XP was.

This article over at TechDirt really highlights some of the biggest hurdles that consumers run into when trying to decide on a decent ISP to subscribe to. 'Unlimited' services which really aren't unlimited, with "fair usage policies" and quiet bandwidth limits are all the rage these days… but seriously, how long can this last?