April 25, 2006
US Patent Office on crack
Wow, it's been awhile since I've posted, busy with various and sundry initiatives not least of which has been work which since Siebel got bought by Oracle has been a tad hectic. I've flown 80,000 miles in the past four months!
We've also had some website problems with our hosting providers, 1and1.com, who claim that my website traffic is too high and it's overloading the shared server they provide with their basic service. So I've had to upgrade to a "managed server", and will be moving the various domains and files over the next several days. Expect some crockery to be broken in the move, and just let me know if you spot something amiss.
Which, BTW, means email me, since I'm pretty sure one of the reasons the server has been overloaded is spam in the comments to my posts. I have them queued for prior approval, so you don't see them, but every time one comes in it runs against a script that checks MT Blacklist for known comment spammers, and holds the comment in a queue for approval. Comment spam has really increased recently, so I've turned off comments on all posts older than one day. So if you DO want to let me know something, email me at the link on the upper right of this page.
Today's gem, courtesy of the US Patent office, merits attention. For some reason, the Patent Office seems to periodically forget their meds or hit the crack pipe a little too hard, and we wind up with some ridiculous patents.
From the patent itself:
A call display and vibration-sensed light emitting shoe heel comprises: a shoe body; a shoe heel having an opened receiving portion at a bottom of the heel. A vibration detecting circuit board with an light emitting diode (LED), a battery portion for supplying power to the circuit board, a frame body for receiving the battery portion, an adjusting body, and a cover are sequentially arranged in the receiving portion from the upper side to the lower side of the receiving portion.Posted by John at April 25, 2006 11:22 AM | TrackBack
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