I resigned from my job a few minutes ago. I’ve worked at the same place for nearly five years, which is a long time for me. I get professionally bored easily and am lucky to have the privilege of leaving jobs that I don’t like or am not moving forward in whenever I wish to.

However in this case that’s not why I decided to leave.

Rather, it’s the covert and super-secret “project” I’ve been alluding to on here for months that has caused my departure.

This project is an extended road trip that will allow us to take in the US and Canada and eventually other parts of the world at our own pace, and in our own way, with no encumbrances of schedules and external demands.

We are suffice it to say very excited!

We leave February 7. And we cannot frickin’ wait.

DRM on ebooks is completely pointless as though I am a very shitty programmer, even I could cobble together some macro and/or program that would take screenshots of an ebook, use OCR software to discern the characters, then spend a little of my time cleaning it up – and bam, no DRM.

The human analog hole* will always be there. Well, at least until neural implants. DRM on ebooks is particularly impossible because the fonts have to be as good or better as those in a physical book for people to want to read it, and that can always be OCRed.

Once even one person does what I discussed above, the DRM curse is removed forevermore. DRM on ebooks is the equivalent of putting a six-foot-tall fence at the bottom a 30-foot-deep lake to stop the fish from swimming where they want to.

*Sounds a lot more sexy than it actually is.