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Agreement Literature

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

You understand you have been reading agreements too much, when your answer  to an e-mail from your “roommate-to-be” begins with:

I answer what you had asked in the same numbering order. But please note that I answer to the best of my knowledge and just to help you with estimates. Hence it is your own responsibility to verify anything, in case such answer is the basis for your decisions.

I was about to add “The responder holds himself not responsible in any way for any damage or misunderstanding caused by the answers provided”. But then felt this is too hostile for a new roommate!

diggy night

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

I can’t resist writing it. Takes 5 minutes of my qualifier exam time, but is worth it.

A digg user posted an item about a HD-DVD code, and the fact it was taken down because of a takedown notice. Digg removed that. People noticed that and informed each other of Digg’s removing the dugg story. But Digg removed those too. People dugg all of this again, Digg un-dugged. People dugg, ….

The result? Look at this:

Digg attack

You think it is over? NO! The same is happening with Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDDVD_Night. People [write in] wiki, Wiki removes. People (write in) wiki, ….

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