The big news, IMHO, this week is Alcatel-Lucent’s patent infringement win over Microsoft for MP3 technology. Now, before I discuss the ramifications of this suite, I just want to state that in this case I feel that Microsoft is a completely innocent party who was scammed by Fraunhofer who sold them (and everyone else who …
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February 27, 2007: The Life of an Ephemerist
When considering the diarian pursuits of famous English language ephemerists, of which I hope to someday be of note, I find it encouraging that Samual Pepys was born on February 23rd and John Evelyn died on February 27th with my birthday squarely in-between them. Apparently the final week of February is an important week in …
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February 26, 2007: The Snow in Scranton Fails Poorly on the Plains
Dominica and I slept in until almost nine this morning. By the time that we got up the roads seemed to be getting a lot better and we felt that we should be able to get back to New Jersey without too much hassle. The snow plows were not out last night so driving was …
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February 25, 2007: 31!
Yup, it’s my birthday. Thirty-one years old today. I got up with seven hours of sleep and started in on the packing again. There is just so much to do. Dominica slept in quite a bit today. She has been exhausted all weekend. The morning packing went pretty well. A little after noon dad came …
February 24, 2007: Another Packing Day
For some reason I was awake this morning at a quarter till eight! That was way too early. Quite a bit less than five hours of sleep. I got up and checked email, showered and got started on the packing. Dad came over at nine and we took the PR5 over to M&R in Geneseo …