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Microsoft taken for 1.5 Billion....... "Like hundreds of other companies large and small, we believe that we properly licensed MP3 technology from its industry recognized licensor -- Fraunhofer," Burt continued. "The damages award seems particularly outrageous when you consider we paid Fraunhofer only $16 million to license this technology." -from MacNN Kevin Maney has talked about this to some extent in his article . It seems Karlheinz Brandenburg was an employee of Bell Labs way ...

After noticing that her hoarse, high-octave vocals didn't have an effect on me, she upped the ante: she started screaming another song, this time at a higher scale. I wanted to take a rock and smash her mouth but all I did was shift on my feet and flash this really stupid smile.

After reading Suman's article "Circus Monkeys", I had to laugh. It even got me thinking about my childhood. My teen years were fraught with dread of meeting

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I looked up this site called SPOUSENOTES, and found the entire premise of the site very interesting. If you dig contemporary living history, this is quite a unique take. Some of the entries are quite fun. The entry by Troll Baby is pretty amusing.

"But Mom, they even pay for your college! Mom?". This is how the "Join the army" spot ran on T.V. I was tempted. I saw my single mom slog with no skills and a string of jobs that sucked. I could totally identify with the girl on TV. I was cut out for much better things. I was good at sports, and who knows at the end of the sign-up period I could be ...

Update: I have improved on what I did on the 6th, after some very constructive feedback. Thanks for the feedback David. 9 feb 07, Lakshmi Some of the improvements: Recent Comments - See who has commented recently on this site. Theme switcher - Switch between 3 styles (skins) I developed for this blog. Logo - Repeat visitors may have noticed a change in logo. Decided to go double color on this one, and with only Arial font. More ...

"Validate your windows copy" was the prompt to which my husband clicked "yes". It was then followed by an express installation of IE. DUH! We would have upgraded if we wanted to.. If this is not Muscle, I want to know what this is? After this very "Soprano" behaviour, our computer flouted a new installation of IE. My son calls the golden ring around the IE LOGO, the "Jupiter ring thingy". Quick review: It has more viewing space, with reduced ...

Saturday morning I had this sweet email from my friend Bharathwaj. He stays in Tennessee and they had a recent bout of snow. He had started trying to build a snowman, when he realized that he was not doing as good a job as he wanted to, and ended up constructing a snow Ganesha instead, complete with 'Mousika' (mouse). Next thing ...