Done yesterday (20091103)

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A productive day at work -- and at home, for that matter: I got my hotel reservations made for Loscon (having discovered over the weekend that they'd slipped through a crack somewhere between ConChord and OVFF). A good walk, and I scored an APC XS1500 at Fry's for about 2/3 the price of my first one, which I love (in large part because you can permanently disable the "on battery" beep).

But I spent much of the evening tired, sleepy, but restless and with a bit of a headache. At a couple of points I was wondering whether I had a mild case of the flu. Other times I wondered whether the restlessness was just missing a friend.

I had some sleep-time tea and went to bed early, at about 10:30. Some nice snuggle when Colleen joined me shortly thereafter.

 

For link sausage, Techdirt comes through with articles on music (UK Music Critic: This Is The Golden Age For Music and Yet Another (Yes, Another) Study Shows File Sharers Buy More) and the latest development in mapping software: Is Google Going Better Than Free On Navigation? Will That Set Off Antitrust Alarms?.

That one's fascinating. It links to Bill Gurley's article pointing that Google's turn-by-turn navigation software is cheaper than free -- if a manufacturer puts it on a device, they get a cut of the ad revenue. The article shows what happened to Tom-Tom's and Garmin's stock prices when Google's announcement came out. As Gurley points out elsewhere, "if a disruptive competitor can offer a product or service similar to yours for "free," and if they can make enough money to keep the lights on, then you likely have a problem."