In my last post, I described the first issue I had with my new computer, which turned out not to be an issue at all. I had planned to follow that up the next day with a description of how bad of a time I had trying to install and update XP. But a more critical issue cropped up that kept me largely offline for a few days. Now, my shiny new system is sitting off to the side of my desk and I’m back on my old one. I’ll be venting about it over the next couple of days.

In the meantime, in relation to my DRM Hell post, here’s some more DRM nonsense to gawk at. This time it comes from the gaming world and involves Bioware, a company who has made several games I enjoy. Looks like EA, the mega publisher who bought them out, is planning to ruin several future titles with the same system, most notably Spore. I was really eager to buy Spore on its release, but if its burdened with this sort of draconian activation scheme that is required every 10 days — no thanks. Hat tip to Scorpia and Shamus.