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I’m posting this in response to a question posted on another blog. Yes, I consider myself a good speller. I don’t know why, I just lucked out and it seems to come to me.

It’s a particular pet peeve of mine seeing bad spelling (and grammar) in professional situations. I work in a Fortune 500 company and I see more emails, and nefarious internal communications coming out that have what I deem as inexcusable errors in spelling and grammar. I can’t seem to grasp how this is possible as corporate America seems to be under the impression that an MS Word document is the ideal unit of information (yet another pet peeve), and this program has an “adequate” spelling and grammar checker built into it. How hard is it to use? Especially when you’re typing and the words it thinks are spelled incorrectly are already underlined in red for you? Come on!

I tease Jess a lot as it doesn’t come so easy to her, but I’m trying to help her as much as possible. She has issues with certain letter combinations producing the same sound… using ’sleap’ instead of ’sleep’, or ’sweat’ instead of ’sweet’. It sometimes makes for some funny sentences.

From Boing Boing:

Customers of new UK ISP get to share all Sony music on P2P:

An ISP in the UK, has secured a license from Sony that allows its customers to legally share any song in the Sony-BMG catalog with any other PlayLouder MSP customer, and to download these tracks from any ISP customer in the entire world.

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That’s awesome. Why can’t I have that with Adelphia???

I’m with John Gruber on this whole stink. Even if Apple or some other developers use the TPM chip to lock something down, doesn’t mean we have to use said software for our daily use. The nice thing about generic operating systems, is that there’s typically more than one application that can be used for a given function. If one locks your data to the application, use another one and be happy.

This is just too awesome. Viruses have already been written to compromise Longhorn (Windows Vista). I couldn’t be more excited.