Doomsday Approacheth

For those who are curious about this whole NTP-sues-RIM-why-is-it-taking-forever-when-the-patents-are-getting-rejected thing: a great roundup of the situation.

The Blackberry comes from Research In Motion, RIM*, which is based right here in Kitchener-Waterloo. They would just say Waterloo. Kitchener is icky and non-technical. So as goes RIM, so goes, K-W, or at least it feels that way.

Why Doomsday? An injunction may be applied forcing a pretty big upheaval in the Blackberry world on February 24th. Tick tick tick tick...

* who I applied for RIM jobs from, you may recall.

Office Politics

How many beers bought for you by coworkers is too many? I think I've had more beer tonight* than I had in 2005**. Not quite, but it's a reasonable comparison. Sheesh.

Update: * Four.

** No more than fifteen.