I have been battleing software this morning – trying to extract an image out of an email message. After some work I have managed to do this. I am just surprised it took so long for me to do. I did no realise how horribly complex normal email messages are. I just hope that they do not get much more complex over the next 30 years.

John C. Dvorak from PC-Mag has an article describing how he feels that the Creative Commons license is, to be frank, bloody stupid as a concept. I think I follow his view on Copyright. He did make the comment that copyright in the USA is too long at 50 years after the author died – and mused that it was stupid that there were troubles republishing a book from 1930 with the photo of a Picaso from 1924.

In other tech news, there are more rumours of an iPod with Video coming out in September. Cute idea but I think battery life will be somewhat limited. The driver for this seems to be the iTunes store selling video clips. I am not convinced.