Jeff Chausse
Digital Strategy + Design
Name Googling
There’s a Chateau de Chausse wine. There’s a town in Idaho called Chausse (15 miles from Dingle). There’s a thing called “Enfil-Chausse®” that helps you put your socks on.
But in the end, Chaussée, which was the original spelling of my last name, means “roadway” or “causeway”.
Groove Launch Party
Groove just had a launch party for Virtual Office 3.0, which we celebrated at a restaurant/dock in Gloucester. I took a boat ride around the harbor and blogged a bunch of pictures from my camera phone. Enjoy.
Groove 3.0 Launches
Hello, hello, everyone. It’s been almost two weeks since my last post. This has been mainly due to the mad rush to get the brand new Groove.net web site out the door. Groove 3.0 represents a HUGE technological and usability advance over the Groove 2.5 and we wanted a whole new website to go along with it. It was a LOT of work for my colleagues and I, and I hope you will go check it out. Special thanks go to Colleen for her graphic design for the site.
I will soon be disappearing yet again since I’ll be on vacation next week (to recover from the above) and not likely to be blogging.
I hope all is well out there in Blog Land.
Fun With CD Copy Protection
I just got a used CD in the mail, and I discovered that it was labeled “Copy Protected”. It was an “advance/promotional” copy, so I don’t know if the standard version is also “protected”.
Here was my experience. When I inserted the CD, Windows AutoPlay popped this up:
Hmmm… What should I click? How about “Cancel”?
I then proceeded to rip the CD in iTunes as I would normally do, without a hitch.
By exploring the CD contents, and Googling the names of some files in there, I learned that it was “protected” by something called “CDS-200“, now distributed by Macrovision. Here’s a great excerpt from the product description:
The CDS-200 data session contains protected and compressed music files for PC playback. These files can only be played from the original disc through a dedicated secure player and cannot be ripped (copied) to the PC’s hard drive.
The files on the DATA session cannot be ripped… Notice it says nothing about the AUDIO tracks 
All so very silly. But, as long as the industry is content to keep using lame-ass copy protection, those of us smart enough to know better than to click “OK” to anything that pops up will be able to use our music as we see fit.
The Blog Must Go On…
It’s hard to follow up a blog post like my last one… I mean, it doesn’t feel right going straight from that to a comment on the cool new Apple Displays, or that Groove was nominated as a Top 100 Private Companies contender. But, being that this is a weblog, we must allow the past (as wonderful as it was) to begin its long scroll off into the archives and move on.
However…
I just have added a new page to the very slowly expanding “Life” section of the site, which chronicles the ongoing story of Anastasia and me. I hope you enjoy it