Maszman Speaks!

Thanks to a recent surge, I’ve finally passed the 10,000 spam com­ment mark. That’s just since the sec­ond week of Novem­ber when this weblog went live on Word­press. Com­pare that to the 180 or so legit­i­mate com­ments I’ve received since 2000 and you get an idea of how bad com­ment spam has become. I’d seri­ously con­sider turn­ing off the com­ments if it were not for Akismet.

Photo_032907_001, orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz.

Some­one dropped an IRS tax form into the foun­tain at Midtown.

Three of the major stake­hold­ers in the upcom­ing GPLv3 have com­mented on the lat­est draft. Stall­man, the founder of the FSF, has mostly been deal­ing with issues aris­ing from the draft. Tor­valds has been a pub­lic critic of the new ver­sion and as head of the largest open source project to use the GPL, car­ries a lot of clout. Nov­ell prob­a­bly has the most to lose, given v3 directly addresses patent deals like they one they recently forged with Microsoft.

That theft of credit card num­bers at TJ Maxx wasn’t just big, at 45.6 mil­lion card num­bers, it’s the biggest ever. Time for a new credit card, no mat­ter whether you can recall shop­ping there or not.

More offices for High Falls means that for­mer Mayor Bill Johnson’s legacy is effec­tively nonex­is­tent. No ferry, no enter­tain­ment hub and no one to care. At least the build­ings will be mostly spared and there’s still the East End (which is thriv­ing, thank you very much).

Photo_032907_002, orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz.

Out Of Service

The bro­ken pipe at Mid­town flooded the Post Office, Jack­son Hewitt and more.