Another quick news item from Les today... Prayer will not help you conceive in-vitro. The study that claimed to prove so turns out to probably be a complete fraud. Let's hope this gets some media attention.
Better be careful, software writers, what you allow to be done with a mouse. Les reports that Micro$oft has just patented the double-click. Les does point out that the patent seems to focus on palm-sized devices, but I believe that will provide little to no protection against misuse of this (IMHO) illegal patent. With computing devices becoming smaller and smaller every day, more and more technology will come under the focus of this patent. Once again a company steps outside of the free market to use the government in an effort to extort money out of honest businesses. Repeat after me, kids, "the patent office is hideously broken and needs to be reformed."
I just heard that my girlfriend's cousin, Patrick Anderson, was murdered just the other day. It doesn't seem to have made the papers yet and I'm not sure it will, being a small town homicide, but it's chilling nonetheless. I've not heard the circumstances surrounding the murder or any other details yet. Stop the fucking violence, people.
A few news organizations are now giving brief reports of the murder. WDAM is carrying a story with Pat's name describing the killing. The Hattiesburg American is also carrying a story dated yesterday that does not include Patrick's name.
Patrick is survived by his young wife and two children, as well as by his father. The funeral will probably be this weekend.
Hand-made Gang Starr cellphone QCP ring-tone: Deep Concentration. Any cell phone that can handle QCP ringtones should be able to use this file. Sprint users can use Focus to send this file to their phone. Enjoy.