Because they can.

Sony's so-called "copy protected" CDs install a rootkit1.

1. Read: Spyware, Trojan Horse, etc...

No internets?

The other day I came home to the sound of music. Two of the girls1 that live in the house were in the piano room, one playing, the other singing. They couldn't seem to get very far in any one song because of the difficulties the pianist was having with sight-reading the accompaniment — but they were having a good time it seemed. Later, after I finagled my way onto the piano bench, I accompanied the singer on a couple of songs. Now, I am no better a sight-reader than the girl who was playing the piano before me, if anything I am worse. The trick she was missing was that you only really need to play the guitar chords marked in the music. The singer sings the melody, so you end up not needing to sight-read anything.

The girls later told me that the only reason they were downstairs in the piano room playing music was that the house internet connection was down.

I promise that one day, I will actually write something interesting here.

1. I'm allowed to say 'girls' because that's how they refer to themselves. So there.

Why "google" is a synonym for "search"

Are these people serious? This pointless blog is the first hit for the query "What does 'brevity is the soul of wit' mean?"

Movie Review: Unleashed

O.K. for an action movie, better than many with respect to plot and emotional involvement - not that I would say it's terribly deep. It earned bonus points for featuring music and the piano as a foil to brutal violence. A particular Mozart sonata is featured in the film as part of a plot device, and in the last scene of the movie this piece is being played. But when the credits start rolling, the music switches to some lame¹ techno elevator² musak. It would have been so much more effective (as far as action movies go, anyway) to continue the Mozart into the credits. Tired. Sleep.

1. Is it appropriate to use the word 'lame' as a pejorative? It is (or was) also an adjective use to describe the disabled. 2. The techno-musak may have merit on its own, but not when you cut a Mozart sonata off midway through to play it.

Word of the day

breeder n. derog. 1. a heterosexual person For the record, I think this is hilarious.

Quote of the day

"Personally, I use their pricing changes as a source of entropy to help generate cryptographic keys." -- some guy on slashdot on Dell's prices