Little bit of local history

I found this little bit of Tampa history interesting. To paraphrase a bit:

George Horatio Packwood, a successful military man, bought the first deed in Maitland, FL in 1873. After a freeze ruined his orange groves, the Packwood family packed up for Tampa in the 1880's.

George brought his entire family to the west coast: Wife Lahvesia, Son George H. Jr, and daughters, Mary, Eunice, Lahvesia, and Azeele (who was later murdered in NYC).

They settled in Hyde Park. I'm guessing somewhere on Packwood Ave. between Horatio St. and Azeele St.

Bad Sony, Bad!

Don't play any of the following CDs on your computer:

• Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia)
• Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic)
• Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia)
• Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)
• Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia)
• Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia)
• Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia)
• The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia)
• Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia)
• Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic)
• Amerie, Touch (Columbia)
• Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic)
• Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy)
• Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy)
• Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy)
• The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia)
• The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic)
• Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy)
• Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)
• Ricky Martin, Life (Columbia)

Why? Because they all suck! No, I'm kidding, if you want to subject yourself to Celine Dion and Ricky Martin, I won't judge you, (snicker, snicker).

The real reason is that Sony doesn't want you to copy songs off the CD and onto your computer. Sooo, they've come up with this brilliant plan that when you put the cd into your computer, it will install software called a "rootkit" that will monitor what you're doing and stop you from copying songs.

But wait, it gets better. Sony had developed technology to make the rootkit undetectable and very difficult to remove so you can't get around it. But wait, it gets even better. Virus writers are starting to take advantage of this technology to hide from Virus scanners. So you can catch something from Neil Diamond and not know about it until after the music has faded and he's moved on to another groupie.

Un-real estate Part II Remember that guy that bought a virtual island in a video game for $26,000? Well a year later, he has developed virtual video game houses and sold them to other online gaming people. He has at this point completely recouped his entire investment. So from this point on, its all profit.

Who needs real life?