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<dateCreated>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:23:16 GMT</dateCreated>
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<body><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/14/comment.drm&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot; rel=&quot;met acquaintance&quot;&gt;Cory Doctorow&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;licence payers can just download the video for free from UKNova, the Pirate Bay and their ilk. After all, if you're going to bother becoming tech-literate, why waste the energy learning to use official crippleware that gives you less, when you can just teach yourself to download the videos that your more savvy neighbours have put on the net?&quot; The funny thing is that downloading BBC content off BitTorrent &lt;em&gt;is easier&lt;/em&gt; than using the iPlayer. I can figure out how to install a BitTorrent client. I can't figure out how to upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player. Perhaps I'm just a bit dim. But I'll stick to the BitTorrent method. It has the minor inconvenience of being illegal, but it has the major convenience of actually working as technology should work - in the interests of the user." created="Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:35:40 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a rel=&quot;friend met&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot; href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubicgarden/sets/72157601430492360/&quot;&gt;Ian&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a rel=&quot;acquaintance met&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot; href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattcashmore/sets/72157601436583881/&quot;&gt;Matt&lt;/a&gt; have pictures from today's &lt;a rev=&quot;vote-for&quot; href=&quot;http://www.defectivebydesign.org/iPlayerProtest&quot;&gt;Defective by Design iPlayer anti-DRM&lt;/a&gt; protests at BBC Television Centre in London. The protest also got lots of &lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/tech_news/DefectiveByDesign_BBC_iPlayer_Protest_London_Manchester_Tuesday_Aug_14&quot;&gt;diggs&lt;/a&gt;, and, no doubt, all the usual moronic comments you've come to expect from our friends at digg." created="Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:04:24 GMT"/><outline text="I really think that the Dock is a neglected part of OS X design. See &lt;a rev=&quot;vote-for&quot; href=&quot;http://www.thinkmac.co.uk/blog/2007/08/hint-how-to-redesign-leopard-dock-so-it.html&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt; for some good thoughts on the Dock. One thing I hate is how everyone adds menus to the top-right hand corner of the Mac, so much so that on small laptop screens, it interferes with the menus. You've got a Dock icon. Add useful functions to the Dock context menu. I want to be able to right click on that and do something useful, rather than having your app take up space in the top-right of my screen." created="Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:33:42 GMT"/><outline text="Want to see something funny? &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/09/sca-oasis_1.html&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot;&gt;InfoWorld&lt;/a&gt; are reporting that OASIS are forming six new committees to help simplify the &lt;abbr title=&quot;Web Services&quot;&gt;WS&lt;/abbr&gt;-*/&lt;abbr title=&quot;Service Oriented Architecture&quot;&gt;SOA&lt;/abbr&gt; stack. Of course, just using &lt;abbr title=&quot;Representation State Transfer&quot;&gt;REST&lt;/abbr&gt; and actually minimizing the level of complexity will be very close to their mind. I've recently been developing software to work with a mixture of REST and XML-&lt;abbr title=&quot;Remote Procedure Call&quot;&gt;RPC&lt;/abbr&gt;. It's surprisingly easy, and both approaches are quite good. Both are possible because you can just about hold it all inside your head." created="Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:23:16 GMT"/>
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