Now pointlessly enhanced with AI
I’ve just finished setting up payment system for a local bakery using an iPod touch and Square. It is a small bakery that sells cookies, coffee and waffles. From time to time customers came in and asked if they could pay using credit card. Now they can take credit card.
I have had the draft of this post for almost a week now, and yes I took the title from “Peace Sells” lyric. After numbers of revisions, I scrapped the entire content and started a new one. Well, this is the new content.
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and The Protect IP Act (PIPA) are the talk of the Internet these days. I’d go this far to say:
In their current form, SOPA and PIPA easily undermine if not violate the First and Fourth Amendments.
We have to do something about it.
There is a newly created petition to veto the SOPA bill on WhiteHouse.gov “We the People” site. I urge you, voting Americans, to sign this petition.
Related:
Glad I finish the data transfers on the iMac.
Josh Topolsky and MG Siegler are having war of words over reviews of Galaxy Nexus. John Gruber seems to be cheering for Siegler on this one.
Chronology:
To be honest, both Topolsky and Siegler are “tech elitists”. For the rest of us, we love watching “nerd fight”.
SOPA: Stop Online Piracy Act
From Mozilla Foundation:
From Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF):
Rage Against The SOPA:
It’s such a SOPA-pera.
Four previously unreleased songs from “Death Magnetic” recording session is now available on iTunes collectively titled “Beyond Magnetic“. These songs were premiered during the week-long Metallica 30th anniversary celebration at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
The good folks at WordPress.org has just released WordPress 3.3, codenamed “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt.
Download WordPress 3.3 from WordPress.org or update through WordPress Dashboard.
