Javi's World

Wired News has a great story on why to Boycott Sony. I hope other companies are watching, so they do not make the same mistakes.

Finnaly, Sony has stopped producing CDs that install rootkits onto your computer. I guess all it took are virus writers using the rootkit to hide their payload. News.com has a nice FAQ, if you want to learn more about this problem.
This is one of the reasons I don’t like buying CDs anymore. Record companies really restricting the music we buy. I am not a music pirate. I support artists that I love to hear. I also believe in fair use. I want to easily move the music I buy from the CD to my iPod so I can take it anywhere. Yet with all of the DRM in CDs now it is harder to rip music off the CD onto your computer. That is why I love buying songs from iTunes. Less hassle for the songs I buy.

Google has been busy lately. They just launched Google Reader, which is a web based news aggregator. What is a news aggregator? It is a program that lets you read articles from a website in one central location. The news aggregator will pull the new articles for you to read once the article is posted. This is a great way to easily read pages or articles on the web without having to individually visit each site.

I have been using Bloglines as my news aggregator for awhile now and I have to say Google Reader is pretty slick. I can easily scan the over 60 feeds I subscribe to, reading the items I want. Also, I really like the keyboard shortcuts, which helps to move through all the articles quickly. I will be trying this for awhile and maybe soon I will be droping my Bloglines account.