Maszman Speaks!

Here’s a sur­prise. Not. A senior IOC offi­cial admits they cut an Inter­net cen­sor­ship deal with China. No won­der the hotels are bugged.

The only thing sur­pris­ing here is that any­one finds this sur­pris­ing. I can eas­ily envi­sion a future inves­ti­ga­tion turn­ing up lots of impro­pri­eties con­cern­ing this year’s Olympic games, this is prob­a­bly the least of them.

A GOP Sen­a­tor is com­plain­ing about the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment order­ing foreign-owned hotels to install addi­tional equip­ment to mon­i­tor their guests’ inter­net com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Nat­u­rally, no men­tion of the US gov­ern­ments warrant-less sur­veil­lance activ­i­ties was made.

The Law of Unin­tended Con­se­quences tells you that if you mea­sure teacher effec­tive­ness by test scores, they might do things to improve test scores other than, you know, actu­ally teaching.

Uh oh, the cool kids are mak­ing real-time 3-D pop-up ads. Now we have to, too.

I men­tioned the beta back in April and now the offi­cial release of Light­room 2 is avail­able. It’s $99 to upgrade and $299 to buy out­right. If you work with RAW files, it’s hard to beat Lightroom’s seam­less han­dling of images from mul­ti­ple cam­eras but I’m not sure I use it enough to jus­tify the upgrade. If I were a pro, of course, there would be no hes­i­ta­tion. For now I guess I’ll hold off until one of the new fea­tures becomes impor­tant enough for me.

C’est Fini

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Sign on the door of Mid­town Plaza.