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Sued for automating email

Patent lawsuits are the worst when they’re taking advantage of people.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Wednesday, August 29, 2007

You Sank my Cargo Ship!

The MSC Napoli, which was holed in storms on Thursday, was run aground following “serious structural failure”. This happened in the English Channel, near Devon. The ship was carrying some freight for a customer of ours that we were shipping. It’s kinda neat being somewhat related to a vessel sinking over 4800 miles away. Some News Links: Stricken cargo ship run aground Oil to be moved from beached ship Scavengers take washed-up goods Police crack down on scavengers

Posted by Michael Palmer on Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Ford and the Family

Looks like Ford is airing a commercial that shows a separated family. You can check it out here.It may be a good move for Ford considering there are millions of separated families these days. Or it may not matter. Who knows.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Caterpillar Invasion

This is crazy! It’s a caterpillar invasion in Sweden possibly? Towards the bottom it gets real crazy.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Magic Germ Wand

Pretty crazy, this plasma wand disinfects. I need one so I can become OCD. Plasma pencil kills germs

Posted by Michael Palmer on Saturday, October 15, 2005

Wee! I posted Again!

When you grew up in the 80s.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Monday, August 8, 2005

Song Outlines

An outline of a song. Reminds me of an XML tree, or a JSON.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Thursday, March 31, 2005

Michael blogs here about random stuff. He's a network engineer, Perl hacker, and photographer.

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