Here's the picture that offended so many of the leading bloggers. Man these people are seriously uptight. Marc says he never pulled it. Right on. [Scripting News]

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A couple of days ago, I pointed out that Bush's loss of flight status (he didn't show up for a physical) seemed very wrong to me.  In all of my experience, military pilots just don't stop flying when they want to, they aren't allowed to.  If I had refused to take a flight physical in order to stay out of the cockpit, I would have been court marshaled.  The Boston Globe has picked up on this today.

Two retired National Guard generals, in interviews yesterday, said they were surprised that Bush -- or any military pilot -- would forgo a required annual flight physical and take no apparent steps to rectify the problem and return to flying. "There is no excuse for that. Aviators just don't miss their flight physicals," said Major General Paul A. Weaver Jr., who retired in 2002 as the Pentagon's director of the Air National Guard, in an interview.

Brigadier General David L. McGinnis, a former top aide to the assistant secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, said in an interview that Bush's failure to remain on flying status amounts to a violation of the signed pledge by Bush that he would fly for at least five years after he completed flight school in November 1969.

"Failure to take your flight physical is like a failure to show up for duty. It is an obligation you can't blow off," McGinnis said.

[John Robb's Weblog]

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ExtremeTech: iTunes Bad, WMA Good

Jason Cross predicts that "Apple is about to get Netscaped" out of the digital music arena while also extolling the benefits of Microsoft's WMA format. "I expect the iPod/iTunes duo to get Netscaped by WMA-compatible stuff within a few years... Eventually, someone will come out with a player that looks as good and is as much a joy to interact with as the iPod, and I fully expect Microsoft to whip its media playback software into shape with a better interface and a full built-in online music store. IPod sales and iTunes usage will continue to grow but the market will grow even faster, causing their actual market share to shrink. When that happens, and Apple's products become entirely marginalized, I don't want to be stuck with a whole bunch of 99-cent songs encoded with AAC and locked with FairPlay DRM."

[The Macintosh News Network]

What a load of crap! I guess the reason Windows won is that morons populate the world. You are never stuck with an encoded song, if you can play it you can re-encode it. I doubt WMA will win any fight. Check the free services, even with Windows dominance Mp3s are the norm. That's the standard...

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