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The Microsoft/Android war: Which patents are at stake?

By Michael Palmer | Oct 27, 2011 | #android, #microsoft |

Good article over at Network World about Patents Microsoft has claimed to hold. I’ve blogged about the silliness of patents like this in the past. People at the patent offices must be not tech savvy. I would NEVER have let such vague patents be allowed through. Check some of them out: The Microsoft/Android war: Which patents are at stake?

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Get an array of months in Perl

By Michael Palmer | Oct 4, 2011 | #perl, #web-programming |

Building an array of months for an HTML dropdown box.

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Ryobi s430 4-Stroke leaky gas cap.

By Michael Palmer | Oct 2, 2011 | #gear, #ranting |

After only a few months of use, my gas cap is leaking

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Introducing Amazon Silk

By Michael Palmer | Sep 29, 2011 | #technology |

Amazon Internet filtering could be interesting.

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Trixbox Polycom Directory of all extensions for IP650

By Michael Palmer | Sep 27, 2011 | #asterisk, #perl, #voip, #programming |

Generating an XML directory for a Polycom 650 phone.

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Oracle sues Google over Android and Java

By Michael Palmer | Sep 22, 2011 | #technology |

Oracle sues Google over Android and Java | Relevant Results – CNET News. Wow, I must have missed this news. Not sure how I feel. IMHO programming languages should be free and open. You can make your own IDE and sell it, but really the right to use the language should be free, or even in the case of Java, sell your VM to people. Maybe I’m not well versed enough on the whole ordeal.