Thanksgiving is a season to think about all the things we are grateful for, but so often we forget the bits of technology that we enjoy. Here are the pieces of technology I am grateful for:

Digital Rights Management We so rarely think about it, but DRM touches our lives every day. This proven useless piece of wonderful technology brought to us by wonderful narrow-minded people of the music and movie industries brings joy to our lives every time we try to do anything with our legally purchased content. Then, it makes us go buy new hardware, providing an incredible excuse to waste more money.

Dumb Comments Without the occasional dose of stupid, annoying comments, I would never be able to put up with the huge number of intelligent comments. Can you imagine only getting intelligent comments on your blog? No dumb ones and no spam? How would you survive?

Monopolies Ahhh… monopolies… Don’t listen to those people who say they’re bad for consumers or whatever! Monopolies are just another excuse to waste some more money (always fun!) and develop another idol (the company’s marketing department). Besides, without monopolies, we wouldn’t have this guy making a fool of himself.

Open Source Purists I just can’t stand those people who think it is OK to have a little closed code on your system. You know, the people who are too spoiled to use gNewSense. How can you stand touching any evil .doc files and MP3’s? Why can’t they just bug people into using other software! If their boss doesn’t like it, they should just get a new job.

Just in case you didn’t notice, I’m being highly sarcastic.