Fripp on career changes...

Robert Fripp's Diary for Wednesday, 1st July 2009:

my difficulty is this: i have been bullied, even threatened, made the subject of undue influence, lied to, and generally had my interests ignored, where not actually trodden on. common decency, fairness & distributive justice are not notions of much consequence in my professional life. the only reason, it seems, that my rights are being taken more seriously nowadays is, that i have put my creative life on hold to deal with infringements & unpaid income; where necessary, through litigation. that is, to be paid for my work as a musician, i have essentially stopped being a musician.

2011 - the year Hollywood runs out of ideas...

Sony Announces 'Men in Black 3'! - Cinematical:

Are you excited for a new Men in Black movie? Did you dig the first two? Which project are you looking forward to the most: Ghostbusters 3, Men in Black 3, Spider-Man 4 or Where Have All The Original Ideas Gone?

The one exception in all this? Pixar with The Bear and the Bow. But even Pixar wonn't dodge the sequel bandwagon forever (Toy Story 2 I almost don't consider a sequel in that most of the plot was written for Toy Story 1), as we know of Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, and a Monsters 2 may be on the storyboards...

why does IE have to be so damned stupid.

Java object o, property x = null, being passed through an ajax library to the browser to populate a form.

in java "o.getX()" returns null.  not "null", but real honest to Joy null.

DWR reflection converts that into javascript as null.  not "null", but real honest to Berners-Lee null.

Firefox treats that as null.  not "null", but real honest to JWZ null.

IE treats that as "null".  not null, like EVERYBODY ELSE, but real dishonest to Ballmer "null".

My team now has to go through 37 different pages full of ajax-based javascript jsp files to fix this on every single form entry we've got.

Fuck IE.  Fuck Microsoft.  If the world had any idea just how much money it loses, wasted into nothingness, because their products suck so bad, the lawsuit return would collapse Wall Street.

and if Microsoft *ever* ends up on a government bail-out list in its future, I'm taking a linux box and a cooler full of dry ice and "lean cuisines" and moving to the fucking moon.