I’ve been overly distracted with trying to obtain medical insurance. A major rant is coming up about how they try to make sure you can’t get it, and Bush’s solution of “tax credits” won’t begin to address the problem.

But I did have time for some fun. The reverse cowgirl’s blog is updated more than once a day, and is wonderfully raunchy. Plan on spending a few minutes there every day. It will end up taking a lot more time than you planned on.

The other item that took up my time is the news that it looks like the last corporate holdout against Big Content, Philips Electronics, has gone along with the herd. Soon we won’t be able to record shows off the television and that TIVO isn’t going to very much use.

I also found this interesting rant-that-insists-it-isn’t called Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going. It’s very long, geeky reading. Along with reasons why MS releases buggy products and how XP invades your privacy, one of the more interesting parts to me is how reliant Windows is becoming on being attached to the web, or more specifically to the servers at MS.

Take that requirement, along with the current EULAs (End User License Agreement. For a lot of the software you get, you don’t buy it — you license it. You don’t have the right to resell it or give it to anyone else. And although you paid for it, the company you bought it from can revoke your license so that you can no longer use it.), and we’re another step closer to renting software that will have an expiration date.

I need to come here more often. Just updated the page look, so now it needs another link.

Fritz’s Hit List is a humorous look at what would happen if the Hollings CBDTPA bill passes as it is written.

Okay, that only took 45 minutes to set up and get it working. Where to start?

One place where I go at least once a week is DigitalConsumer.org. They provide the latest news on protecting “Fair Use” rights, and how the CDs that you buy may soon not be playable on your computer because of copy protection.

And one link found today looks like it should be a good place to stay up on LA news. We’ll have to see if it is, because I’ve only been there once. It’s LA Examiner.com. If nothing else it has links to local newspapers, magazines, radio and TV.

I keep running across links that I want to save and sometimes share with others. I’m trying a blog as a way to do it.