DoDo

DoDo is my mother-in-law's pet. He was a 17 years old virgin and had bad temper. Since the first time I visited to my wife's family, he never liked me. He kept the habit barking at me every time it saw me. So, in some way, he is a very consistent dog.

I wondered whether his bad temper is related to his virginity. But I will never know the answer.

I tried to make peace with DoDo by talking gently nice words with him but he turned his tail to me.

Sally knew DoDo very well. Back when Sally was a baby, DoDo didn't bark at her at all. When Sally was learning to walk, DoDo doesn't bark at her, either. He only steps away when Sally walked toward him.

Sally has not lived with DoDo for one year and can speak a lot nowadays. Sometimes Sally said "DoDo!!! Don't bark" to him. (DoDo barks at her since she moved away.)

In any case, we will miss you, DoDo.

Education of Intellectual Property

The war between YouTube (Google) and Viacom is very interesting. This is a highly concerned lawsuite as it is defining the boundary of compliance to DMCA concerning uploaded public content and the ad profits in relation.

DMCA defines the baseline for copyright materials on the Internet (at least in United States). The reason that DMCA is demanded: Internet is a different medium from legacy mediums and it forms a new world for copyright to apply to.

Ok, enough background. Now we are here to read about a blog post concerning the judge's ruling.
(Note that this blog could be biased.)

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9242

However, what alerts me is from talkbacks following the main article, it can be easily seen that some people either have no clue about what IP really is or are twisting it purposely.

The fun catch:

The lawsuit by Viacom against YouTube (Viacom) is somewhat a joke. Refer to "Controversial complaints" section in the page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom#Copyright_complaints_against_YouTube

Coolest Domain Name Ever Seen

http://err.no/personal/blog/