Paramount/Dreamworks SKG: HD-DVD yes, BluRay no

With the exception of Spielburg's movies, Paramount is dropping BluRay DVDs. Apparently Universal has already done this, while Blockbuster and Target have shunned HD. Me, I'm wanting to get my LaserDisc player working again.

Long freakin' story link

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday responsible for Skype outage?

Skype relies upon peer-to-peer networking to create a large message-passing network. So your computer (if you have Skype installed) is passing Skype traffic when it's turned on. When Patch Tuesday happened, several dozen computers were rebooted, and if their Skype is not set to auto-logon, the computer doesn't log on to Skype and all of a sudden this peer-to-peer network disappears.

There was a second part of the problem. Skype had a previously unknown bug on their back-end servers, and when their peer mesh network got crippled, this bug manifested and kept them down longer than was reasonable.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/08/microsofts-patc.html

OFF TO ME!

Well, Maine, that is.

Leaving Wednesday at Oh-dark-thirty, getting home late Sunday night, planning on having LOTS of fun! So sorry if I'm offline for a few days!