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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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26 January 2001 - 3:18 pm
Beware of using the :-( ® (registered trademark symbol added to avoid being sued) emoticon in the future. According to this article on Despair's website, Despair plans to sue 7,000,000 email users for using their trademarked emoticon. Now we know why AOL's Instant Messenger converts emoticons into yellow smiley faces: to avoid litigation.
[Of course, the press release does read rather oddly. Almost like something out of the The Onion. But don't let this stop you from adding the registered trademark symbol to all of your frowning emoticons in the future. It's better to be safe than sorry.]
Posted by on 26 January 2001 at 3:18 PM
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