Month: March 2005

For those who use AOL Instant Messenger, a word of warning

…by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses.

What AOL is saying, essentially, is this: they can use anything you post however they see fit, they don’t have to tell you before or after, and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.

Found through Thudfactor.

Yesterday afternoon, after I’d had lunch, I walked over to the park and read my book. It felt like spring.

Today, we had rain that turned quickly to snow that turned even more quickly into windy wintery chill and dangerous road conditions outside.

Occasional Fish: proving Mark Twain right about the weather since 2001.

I just saw Darius Rucker (of Hootie and the Blowfish fame) singing an ode to Burger King’s “Tendercrisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch” to the tune of Harry McClintock’s “The Big Rock Candy Mountain. I immediately turned off the television.

Somebody needs to be smacked upside the head for that one.