Updates for 2008

Been a while since I've posted anything to this blog, so it's about time for a follow up.

Weedshare

From what I've garnered, it appears that SML auctioned off all their intellectual property they'd gathered while maintaining the Weedshare network as of early 2008. It's amazing that artists and content providers who signed into this system can all the work they'd put into developing and marketing this distribution platform packaged up and sold to the highest bidder without even a mention from the company. Not even a thank you email for all the work that was done in this 'beta test'. But then I guess part of the legal contracts that allowed artists to sign into this program probably gave them this ability.

It's interesting that Microsoft has made so many bids for Yahoo! in the last little while. As far as I know, Yahoo is one of the few other companies that would have benefitted from having a Weedshare-style distribution platform packaged into their own music offerings. If anything, Microsoft's bid at a corporate takeover seems more like a means of protecting their own behinds from being sued over licensing a faulty product when a more developed version was available and possibly losing control over that more developed version.

There's still no hints of a rollout of a SML-style distribution system for the Zune, although I'd imagine thats been put on a back burner until MS is no longer under their standing antitrust suit with the American Government.

On a positive note, I got 2GBs of memory for $40 from Staples and now Vista runs like a slightly wobbly top on my laptop. Much better than before.

DCA - DIA

Not much on the go here. I've had a few contacts and passed the idea around a bit, but had no takers regarding DIA testing. There's a few comments published in the last post that list a lot of the recent findings for DCA. I'd recommend reading through them for anyone interested in this highly promising but controversial treatment.

Pelts, quantum computers, etc.

I'm now halfway through my program at CONA. I think I've still got my 4.0 gpa, but my marks haven't come out yet for this term. I'll know tomorrow. I'm planning on prototyping my peltier designs this coming year as part of my third year project. I've also got a number of other experiments I've got on the drawing board for different theories, and i'll probably try to explain them on here in the coming weeks to help myself get my head around. So far the only one that I think I'll be able to do with the lab I have at my disposal will be testing a theory of magnetic field induced optical diffraction through water (magnetic rainbows), but I also have some thoughts concerning a room temperature superconductor and a theory of quantum gravity that includes the possibility of antigravity.

I'm hoping 2009 could be a fun year.