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Nothing like a good language rant to start the day off right.

Turns out that Coldplay (or, at very least, Coldplay’s label) doesn’t really understand their audience. I like Coldplay well enough. Our household has purchased (legally, with actual money) all of their CDs in the past. But, no longer. Their latest CD apparently comes with anti-piracy technology that prevents the disk being ripped to MP3 (ie: no iPod, no iTunes) or played on certain car stereos (!?!) among other things.

Well, thanks but no thanks. Call me when you stop treating your customers and fans like thieves.

del.icio.us has been down for a couple of hours so far today. It was also down for a couple of hours (5? 6?) a couple of days ago. I’ve been using the service lately because the Firefox Extension, LazySheep bookmarklet, and blog autoposting service have made it useful as a blog-post-link-aggregator. It’s less useful when it’s offline.

Oh well. Hopefully Yahoo! (who apparently just bought del.icio.us for an undisclosed-but-rumoured-to-be-healthy amount of money) will be able to throw enough money at the problem that del.icio.us will become a reliable service again sometime. Right now I’m just moderately irked because I’ve gone to tag a half-dozen sites in the past couple of hours and keep running into the “del.icio.us is down for emergency maintenance. we’ll be back as soon possible” error message. Grf.

I’m still angry about Fox cancelling Firefly, so their new idea of cancelling Arrested Development is just doubly infuriating. It’s starting to look like there’s a pattern of Fox being utterly incapable of actually handling and promoting high-quality shows.

Go check Joe’s post for a great clip of David Cross ranting about this very thing.

*sigh*

So, I clicked on a link in my RSS feedreader and the following page came up. It took me a noticeably long amount of time to find the actual content. Image here is colour coded for your edification: Orange = Advertising. Red = Script Error. Blue = Navigation. Yellow = Actual Content. Grr.