Time and again I’ve warned my readers of the perils of DRM.  (Specifically here and here).  That’s why I don’t buy music on iTunes and have given all of my digital music patronage to Amazon.com.  Even my wife, who’s not as into FOSS and all that as I am, has become disgusted as she’s understood what DRM means for her - regular Jane Consumer.

I’m not the only one who’s made these claims.  Yet others say, “you guys are just using that as an excuse to malign DRM.  It’s necessary for protecting content from piracy and you just want to pirate stuff.”  Oh yeah?  Well, are you prepared to give up your rights to expect your paid content to work when you come back to it in the future?

I’m going to see if I can fix up my blog’s style so that it’s not so narrow because, otherwise, I’ve grown to like this theme. So if the blog looks a little messed up for a little while it’s because I’m editing the style sheet.

11 Second Club - Nov 2007 - fourth pass from djotaku on Vimeo.

Background: I’m feeling a little under the weather, so I’m staying home today. Danielle: “I want you to rest today, ok? I’ll send you a list of chores later.”

So I’m using Flock daily now for my web browsing to see how I like it. Since I don’t usually go to Facebook on my own, it’s nice to see the notifications within Flock. Thus, I’ve been more responsive to my Facebook private messages, a good thing since my second-cousin recently caught up with me on Facebook. So I’m liking the Facebook integration even more than I thought I would since I’m not a Facebook-heavy person.

(just so you know, you should be able to click on most of the screenshots to see them more clearly)

Earlier this year, I took a look at flock. It didn’t impress me. In fact, I found it so useless to my browsing habits that I didn’t even bother to review it. I neglected to mention last time that Flock is built upon the same Gecko backend as Firefox. This is, as I have mentioned before, one of the best things about free and open source licenses. Firefox is a great technology, but it’s meant to be the every-man’s browser. This is expressed by Firefox’s own team and it’s why they have the plugin architecture. They feel that the Mozilla Suite became extremely bloated as it had a web browser, IRC client, email, and (I think) calendar built into it. It was a bit intimidating for first time users and took up quite a bit of RAM. Also, from a programmer’s perspective, it’s a lot harder to maintain something so complex. So, for Firefox they went for just developing a solid browser. Anything missing could be implemented via plugins.

This is a test post for a blog post I’m writing about flock 0.9.  It should appear in the next 30 minutes or so after I finish up.   This is bold, underlined, and italics.

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11 Second Club - Nov 2007 - third pass from djotaku on Vimeo.

Just need to lip sync the lil guy.

Just a little more left on the lil guy, then lip sync and final touchups!

11 Second Club - Nov 2007 - second pass from djotaku on Vimeo.

11 Second Club - Nov 2007 - first pass from djotaku on Vimeo.This is my first pass. I’ve gone through and animated nearly everything for the character on the right (mancandy) except the lip sync. To see it in full HD awesome quality, follow the link containing the video’s title right under the video.

I’ve just finished up my second pass. I finished up Mancandy’s animation and did the arm/hand animation on lil guy. I think it’s coming along very well for my first attempt at something like this. I’m going to set it to render tonight at respower and I hope to find all or most of the frames to be done by the time I get up tomorrow.