Interesting Notes From Today...

As many of you have noticed, the name of my blog is called "My Daily Dime". This means I will be posting my opinion of things. Many people refer to their opinion as their two cents, however, because I value my opinion I have determined that it is worth ten cents, and therefore, my blog is being called a Dime. In any case, on to today's stories and my comments:

In a story that I've been following pretty closely, the Co-CEO of RIMM (the company that makes your blackberry work) announced that his company was close to a deal with patent holder NTP. For those of you who haven't been following the story very closely, A U.S. Court determined that RIMM was infringing on NTP's patent for its blackberry software. This in turn could have caused RIMM to shut down. Fortunately, for all 'crack'-berry users out there, it looks like a settlement will finally get finalized. My thoughts on this: how the hell does RIMM not do there research and resolve this before it gets to this point? I know if I were running a business, there's no WAY that I would be so blind as to not know if the product or service I was providing was already patented.

In the ongoing struggle at the White House, President Bush vigorously defended his Domestic Spying. This is so ridiculous, I'm not sure what to say. How does one bilaterally decide that it's within his rights to start spying on the Country that he is supposedly the President of? Wasn't Saddam Hussein doing the exact same thing? At least Saddam was smart enough to get away with it. According to Newsweek, Bush allegedly summoned the editor and the publisher of the New York Times to his office on December 6 to discuss the publishing of the article. I would've loved to be a fly on the wall during that meeting. Next thing I see coming from Bush & Co. is a massive PR campaign something along the lines of "Reading the New York Times is equivilant to supporting Terror!"

Finally, in sports news, it looks like Noomaahhh finally decided to sign with the Dodgers. He signed a one year contract worth a reported $6 Million Dollars with the opportunity to earn $4 Million more in performance incentives. In case you're wondering what the single thought was going through Nomar's head as he was signing the contract, I'll tell you: "Suckas!" How the Dodgers were duped into this one, I'll never know. It looks like Grady Little followed up his leaving Pedro in one inning too long move with the "Hey guys, let's pay a guy $6 Million and hope we get 100 games out of him this year!"

In my next post, I'll try and stick to a single subject, but for now, you're getting multiple subjects in a single post, because, I just don't have that much time to write during the day.