{"id":1410,"date":"2007-02-06T20:56:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T00:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2007-10-06T10:40:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T13:40:19","slug":"strange-as-it-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"Strange as it does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>here were a couple of items in the news that caught my eyes, that is not including the frigid temperatures over here:\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/02\/06\/astronaut.arrested\/index.html\">Astronaut and the love triangle that went wrong<\/a>: An astronaut (and a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nowak\">successful one at that<\/a>), a lover and another one. How do you end up throwing a successful carreer away?\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/securityfix\/2007\/02\/microsoft_to_support_openid.html?nav=rss_blog\">Microsoft to support OpenID<\/a>: Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will support OpenID 2.0. However, I tend to be just as skeptic as Bruce Schneier who says that &#8220;Microsoft has a long history of &#8216;supporting and then co-opting&#8217; open standards&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish\">Embrace, extend and extinguish<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/hotnews\/thoughtsonmusic\/\">Steve Jobs&#8217; thoughts on music<\/a> has the blogosphere <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/blogsearch?hl=en&#038;q=Steve+Jobs&#038;btnG=Search+Blogs\">buzzing<\/a>. The gist: Maybe we should get rid of DRM? Frankly the main clue is actually in the last paragraph where Jobs says that:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">Much of the concern over DRM systems has arisen in European countries.\n<\/p>\n<p>You may have heard that a lot of EU states are considering banning iTunes, following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmwmedia.com\/news\/2007\/01\/24\/france-germany-join-scandinavian-groups-in-effort-against-apple-itunes\">France&#8217;s example to ban iTunes completely<\/a>. I wonder how much that is hurting Apple&#8217;s pockets.\n<\/p>\n<p>And hey, and so once in a while small guys win in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cadenhead.org\/workbench\/news\/3119\/victory-declared-battle\">domain name disputes<\/a>. Well, for now it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a couple of items in the news that caught my eyes, that is not including the frigid temperatures over here: Astronaut and the love triangle that went wrong: An astronaut (and a successful one at that), a lover &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1410\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[167,133,55,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}