You know, I don’t get out much, so I’m sometimes surprised at how much you have to pay to be entertained these days. For example, yesterday I bought a couple of hockey tickets. Two tickets in the nosebleed section … 44 dollars. Ticketmaster “convenience charge” … 10 dollars. “Processing fee” … 2 dollars. The feeling that the already exorbitant ticket price was really a bait and switch … priceless. (I got a much better deal on a mini package of minor league baseball tickets. Two sets of tickets to 7 games in the best seats you can get for 80 bucks.)
Interesting spam today: Siberian Software Services. Specializing in … everything!
Risks Digest has a note about a very interesting Microsoft Word risk involving the track changes feature. There’s no design flaw involved here, just users who don’t have security in mind when they exchange documents.
Jeff Bezos has written an open letter about patents and posted it on the Amazon.com site. His recommendations for the reform of the patent system are very sensible. Unsurprisingly, Tim O’Reilly has already written a response to the Bezos letter.