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The FCC plans to end single-provider cable contracts for apartment buildings. They're doing this to increase competition and lower prices for consumers.

It's a nice gesture, but pretty useless from my point of view. What good does it do to allow competition when the city the apartment is in only has one cable provider? How about ending the practice of cable monopolies for entire cities?

Someone twittered about the version of Firefox with an "orthographic corrector." I wondered why this was so great, and whether this was something I needed. So I went to the page they linked to and still didn't get information about this feature beyond the fact that it existed. So I looked up "orthographic" on Google: Of or pertaining to orthography, or right spelling.

That's right, orthographic corrector = spellcheck.

Our new XServe is up and running. It has many pretty blinkenlights, making it more attractive as well as a zillion times faster than our old stack o' Dells.

Now the only question is, what do we do with the old servers? They're not really fit for reuse, so it's been suggested that we destroy them interestingly and post the video on YouTube.

Normally I think about technology and copyright as it applies to music or movies, not fine art. This article in the Post and Courier describes problems Charleston's local artists are having with their pantings being copied for profit without permission. Technology makes it easy for their images to be copied and placed on mugs, t-shirts, etc. This often happens outside the U.S., making it hard for the artists to follow up and prosecute copyright violations.

Artists and those copying them have different views on the morality of copying the art:

Anthony Pompa owns a Montreal company that makes canvas prints from the images on Carter's posters. "I love Eva Carter's work. I really do," he said. "And this is such a proper way of displaying her work. We're just doing her a favor. We're making her look great."

Carter, who operates a gallery on East Bay Street, views the works as a clear infringement on her copyrights and a threat to her livelihood. But the practice continues just the same.

I had a page where I needed to swap images and image maps using javascript. This caused IE to crash. Apparently, others have also struggled with this issue.

But I managed to persevere! Instead of just changing attribute values, I used replaceChild() to replace the entire image element with a new one. I then set the attributes of the new element to be whatever I need them to be.

It works, IE no longer crashes, and our site is just about ready to go live.