This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

This Saturday (May 20), I’ll be at the GAITHERSBURG Book Festival with my novel Red Team Blues; then on May 22, I’m keynoting Public Knowledge’s Emerging Tech conference in DC.

On May 23, I’ll be in TORONTO for a book launch that’s part of WEPFest, a benefit for the West End Phoenix, onstage with Dave Bidini (The Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (Citizen Lab) and the whistleblower Dr Nancy Olivieri.

#20yrsago Pal Mickey: A location-aware wireless famulus for Walt Disney World https://web.archive.org/web/20030523192116/http://www.wdisneyw.co.uk/palmickey.html

#20yrsago PressPlay being sold to Napster https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/19/business/deal-may-raise-napster-from-online-ashes.html

#15yrsago UK gov’t wants database of every phone call and email https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7409593.stm

#15yrsago Microsoft: we listen to broadcasters, not customers https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/microsofts-masters-whose-rules-does-your-media-cen

#10yrsago What the Mounties pirate https://www.pirateparty.ca/2013/05/17/rcmp-and-industry-canada-ip-addresses-found-to-be-downloading-torrents/

#10yrago Patent lawyers: Help! The evil Makers won’t let us apply for bullshit 3D printing patents…