Jason Griffey

Awwwww…my sister just got a puppy.

Well, Happy Day. It looks like I found out what was going on with my blog software….I had a relative link instead of an absolute link for my FTP path. So, maybe things will get updated properly from now on…AND, my archives seem to be working.

Interesting court case today….the US Supreme Court ruled against 20th Century Fox in a trademark suit. Essentially, the suit says that users of material under public domain do not have to worry about tracking down trademark information for the original creator of the material. Fox sued a company called Dastar after Dastar used material created by Fox, but allowed to fall out of copyright. Fox argued that repackaging it diluted the Fox trademark, which SCOTUS rejected. From CNN:

“Scalia said that if creative producers were required under the trademark law to attribute the origin of any uncopyrighted materials they used, it would be difficult.

“We do not think the Lanham Act requires this search for the source of the Nile and all its tributaries,” he wrote.

The Bush administration and other groups including the American Library Association had supported Dastar. “

So, good news for the public domain…now if we could just managed to GET a public domain again, we'd be in good shape.

Hmm. Upload still not entirely cooperating. Lots of reports over at radio.userland.com, so hopefully something will get changed soon. If not, I guess I'll do ANOTHER blog migration…check out moveable type or something.

Speaking of eating habits, Abe and I had an interesting experience at Southpoint Mall yesterday…after seeing The Italian Job with Trish, she headed out and Abe and I tried to grab some grub. Unfortunately, every quick eatery at the mall evidently closes at 6pm on Sundays….all of them. Don't understand that, since the movie theatre shows movies all through the evening. The only things that stayed open were the sit down places that would take like 2 hours to get in and eat.

So: Boooooooo on the Food Court at Southpoint. Booooooooooooo.

Without Bets around, my sleep/wake schedule is soooooo fucked up. I'm sliding into the 2-3am bed/10-11am wake schedule, which is normal for me, but weird after the regimentation of school. So this is a weird few days. And don't get me started on my eating habits….gah.

And back to the problems uploading…looks like the problem is that it has trouble with my home network. Which is interesting, but not a deal killer, since I can still blog, and then just upload it during my time at school.

In case some of you missed it, it turns out that the rescue of Jessica Lynch was….*gasp*…..not presented by the American government and media entirely factually.

Check the story from the BBC, since you can be sure the liberal American media isn't going to cover it.

Wait, let me do that again: <sarcasm>…the liberal American Media…</sarcasm>. That's better.

So lazy today….so much of nothing done.