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Entries from July 2008

Fair Use

Date July 26, 2008

For those who, as my cousin Bill said, “wake up in the middle of the night worrying about copyright infringement”, please Click Here.

New World Page

Date July 23, 2008

I’ve just added a permanent page to this site, featuring a link to my “room” in Google’s new Lively virtual world. Please link to my Lively room and let me know what you think. Oh, sorry, but so far only MS Windows XP/Vista users can actually do that for now, but Google promises Mac software [...]

iPhone 2.0, day two

Date July 13, 2008

When I signed off last night, the 2.0 software update was still downloading. It took quite some time, and then updating the phone took another interminable period, but finally it finished. I had a bit of a scare when it told me it had to authenticate (or whatever the word was), but that didn’t take [...]

iPhone 2.0

Date July 12, 2008

It hasn’t been easy to be cool about waiting for the upgrade so I can spend my money on little apps, but the end of the tunnel is in sight now. The software and firmware are installed now, and I’m just waiting for my data to be restored.

Virtual Worlds Galore

Date July 2, 2008

I was just talking to Henrik Bennetsen at Stanford Humanities Lab about his project, Preserving Virtual Worlds. So much has been happening in the homebrew virtual worlds space that it’s hard to cover it all, but we exchanged some info about various sites we’ve each visited, and talked about the possible future of these exciting [...]