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 [...]
