It’s not by choice, but I’ll once again be rarely online. In fact, for this next while, it’ll be less common than when before I got internet at home. I don’t know how often I’ll be able to get online, but as for the circumstances surrounding this, I have to admit I should have seen it coming. But that’ll likely give everyone a different, and wrong, idea of said circumstances, so just pretend I never said that. Pretend I said I have to go undercover and infiltrate some evil society or something. That’s a lot cooler, and better, than the truth, which as usual, sucks.

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Windows Photo Gallery has great metadata support. It supports hierarchical tagging, makes it easy to rename and caption photos, and even allows for adjusting the date and time that a photo was taken. For all this, it rocks, especially if all you have are JPEG images.

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We’ve all heard of Spore, the game where you evolve creatures from the puddle of muck stage through to galactic conquest. It’s a very, very neat game! Unfortunately, it’s not a game worth buying, and the reason for this is (drum roll, please) DRM! I needn’t cover the details of the system that ruins the game, as various reviewers on Amazon.com do a great job themselves. Of the approximately eleven hundred reviews currently available, over half are one-star (the lowest rating you can give), and just about every. last. one. goes on about the DRM.

Update: This is not the article you're looking for. While my points were valid when I originally wrote the article, today, Zemanta provides a great service, which works well and continues to expand. If you want my opinion, I'd say use it!

You might have noticed recently, that I’ve been giving Zemanta a try. It’s a pretty interesting service, and when it works, it’s great! Unfortunately, at least for me it doesn’t tend to work.