26 Feb 2007 0312H

BitTorrent has gone legit, and other news

No thanks to a snow and ice storm that delayed my 8:40PM flight out of Midway till 10PM, sat in the gate for an hour, and de-icing took another one, so we didn’t get into KCMO till 1, and not in my hotel until 2. There was a lady sitting a row back who literally talked the entire time we were in the plane, three hours.

I’m pretty shocked to see this happen, actually, even though I saw it coming. The catch is, you must use Windows Media Player and its DRM. But it does beat the direct HTTP download off iTunes, and in a big way, especially for gigabyte files.

Mostly because the facts on the ground speak for themselves, with the proper number of seeding servers, BT has the potential to form the backbone of a corporate media distribution network. Maybe one that could even save Blockbuster, TiVo, and Cable from themselves. I’d say I’m very cautiously optimistic about the outcome, but it all depends on who signs on.

Still monitoring post-WordPress 2.11 update chaos. Problem is a number of tags from FeedBurner need to get inserted into the spaghetti code of WordPress’s PHP pages and I also updated my analytics package, Mint to 2.0, and Steve Smith’s beautiful, beautiful WP Tiger Admin to 3.0.

I got my openID at MyOpenID.com! And have used it three times already. It makes registration on new sites painless and no more remembering countless logins and passwords, pseudonyms, aliases and the like. Kinda makes you wonder why we ever did this any other way.

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