Microsoft says:

"Any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive, in sharp contrast to our own proposal to acquire Yahoo!"

The emphasis is mine, but come on. Are they even trying anymore? Or was this press release written by a PR intern who was simply unaware that Microsoft's share of the OS market is over 90%?

Remember when I ranted about social networking sites not too long ago? Well, I've been working on a paper that would be much improved by some virtually unobtainable source material. I heard I might find someone on Facebook with access to the material I'm after...

So, TorrentFreak is reporting a massive security lapse on the part of MediaDefender, a company that makes its money running interference on internet-based copyright infringement. In addition to exposing what probably qualify as trade secrets, quite a lot of sensitive personal data was also exposed (social security numbers and the like).

Executives, take note: this is why you cannot ignore the security policies written by your IT guys.

Something worth knowing about me: if my computer is working fine and doing everything I need it to do, I will still find a reason to spend days or even weeks trying to make it better.

I think it is a disease.

I've had several comments on my Ubuntu experience, my most popular entry to date (and here I thought I would mostly be blogging about law school). I thought I'd take a moment to update everyone on my foray into Linux.

Ubuntu 6.06 ("Dapper Drake") ran on my desktop for about a month. At this point, 6.10 ("Edgy Eft") was released. I read some unfavorable words regarding the upgrade process. I backed up my wife's files and dove right in. d^_^b

Bear with me, I'm going to make a big list of links to a lot of people, including family, friends, acquaintances, and even a few people who probably don't remember me. There is a point to this discussion, which will come later and which I will mark for your convenience if you want to skip the inane listing. Also, do not click the links unless you are really curious. Some of these MySpace pages have so much junk on them your computer will absolutely choke.

Inane listing begins.

So it turns out that everyone uses MySpace.

It's "placement break," which means I have no classes this week. I finished most of my homework first thing. So, finding myself with a bit of (shock!) free time, I downloaded a copy of Windows Vista RC1 and secured a trial key. I'm no Microsoft fan, but what can I say, the hype over Aero Glass finally penetrated my practiced cynicism. I chose the 64-bit version to match my processor.