Archives for January, 2007
Reality Check
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
The perspective granted by Web analytics tools can be both a blessing and a curse. I’m intelligent and insightful, you know, and I get link love from highly respected bloggers; sure, I’m no A-lister, but I’m generally pretty happy with what I write here, you know? A (small|select) group of people is interested [...]
Lunchtime IP Musings: one down, 3,808 to go?
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Slashdot today informs me that Microsoft has “retracted their recent controversial patent application”.
[Hands up, everybody who read that sentence and thought "wait, which recent controversial patent application? I've lost track...is that the RSS thing or one of the other ones?" ]
So no, it wasn’t the RSS thing, and to be blunt, neither you nor I [...]
Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Man, oh, man — I can’t wait for this to hit Slashdot.
January 18, 2007 was apparently intellectual-property-a-go-go day for the USPTO: it brings us published patent applications from Microsoft (#20070016532 – Digital application operating according to aggregation of plurality of licenses) and IBM (#20070016531 – System, method and program product to determine resolution when [...]
My VRM Honeymoon
Friday, January 12th, 2007
A week off the grid does a body (and mind) good. Mona just took her first extended trip since Gwen’s birth (740 days ago, as it happens), so Gwen and I had our first week alone together. Very, very good.
While I’ve been off the grid for the whole week, I have had a [...]
