Decided that blogs (and webpages) that deface outgoing links through a redirector for the purpose of (potential) evaluation of visitor off-clicks are stupid. And therefore unsubscribed from some of those blogs. Even if the content is interesting - if I have to register the clicks on further information with the blog owner first, they can kiss my RSS feed.
Yes, there are sometimes technical reasons why one might want to do this - my link postings have their own GUID, but they are redirects to the original (since I only have a short comment there, which was already included in the RSS feed). But as a general measure? No.
Life Is Complicated - Tim Bray on the OOXML vs. ODF discussion regarding Wikipedia. And he draws a nice comparison to the XML Working Group and how Microsoft reacted to him: "Netscape hired me to represent their interests, and when I announced this, controversy ensued. Which is a nice way of saying that Microsoft went berserk; tried unsuccessfully to get me fired as co-editor, and then launched a vicious, deeply personal extended attack in which they tried to destroy my career and took lethal action against a small struggling company because my wife worked there.".
Minimum wages in Europe - except of course in our country, because it's supposed to ruin the economy. And the union's demand is even below many European neighbors.
Music industry: Government wants to turn copyright into a "toothless tiger" - the stupid wailing of the music industry - especially their stupid babble that they represent the interests of the artists, these lying crooks - really gets on my nerves. And has led to the fact that I now only shrug at the possible closure of iTMS (as possibly upcoming in Norway). Thanks to Jamendo.com, Magnatune.com, Garageband.com and other netlabels ...