Coming and Going

Coming - TIVO the recording device similar to Sky TV's My Sky has been bought by TVNZ . But in another bit of marketing brilliance it will be disabled so that it doesn't skip ads, although it will fast forward at 30x times speed. Why then get it, as opposed to a Hard Drive Recorder?? And don't they understand that the 12 year old kids will soon hack it so it does skip ads.

In the States they have had a conference about DRM in DVD's etc and it was brought up how Obama gave Brown some DVD's but because of the restrictions on playing in another country, (zone), Brown can't play them!! The industry continues to shoot itself - not in the foot but in the wallet.

I see that the Christian Science Monitor newspaper is to close. (Thats a misnomer if there ever was one - the word 'science' in their approach to medicine).

Newspapers are sadly an almost doomed industry - well at least the paid versions are; although I still think the niche market versions will survive. When we were in the UK the Metro (a Swedish idea) was the giveaway newspaper and we thought it was great.

Whats going? Illness.

Sarah was sick but she is much better now thanks to the drugs she was prescribed.
However, the lead up wasn't so good as she picked up the medicine and took one dose but didn't feel any better. She came around to our place and Christine didn't think it seemed right so looked up what she had been given, on the Net. It wasn't the correct drug.

So after some discussion with the hospital it turned out they used an old name and the chemist just thought it was a slight spelling mistake (one letter different) from another. However no harm done thank heaven and the new one has worked a treat.

Cricket Jessie Ryder (the boy from Naenae) has scored another ton - in fact a double ton.