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Monthly Archives: March, 2007

Another Sony DRM Blunder?

I recently bought “Stranger Than Fiction” from Best Buy, figured I’d watch it tonight.  I put it in my DVD player, a Sony DVPCX995V, and it began to read the disc. Then, the damn thing shut down. I was really confused.  I messed around with it for a few minutes, then I jumped into a [...]

When email parsing gets ‘glitchy’

When Google introduced their online Calendar solution, I was pleasantly surprised when I received an email soon after containing an upcoming event, GMail offered to “Add it to my Calendar.”  Obviously there were parsing rules in place that recognized a date and/or time, even guessed correctly at the name of the event. Unfortunately, as in all rules assumed in [...]