Adieu, OED Online
Parting is such sweet sorrow. I love the OED Online, and I don’t quite know what I’m going to do to replace it, but I don’t quite love it enough for $395 a year for an individual subscription. You folks with your fancy institutional subscriptions don’t know how good you’ve got it. So when I got the notice that my subscription was expiring and they were going to charge me for another year, I bit the bullet and canceled.
Actually what really irks me is that I have the OED 3.1 on CD-ROM, but it stopped working one day, as their asinine anti-copying protection scheme (which calls for relicensing the software every 90 days) screwed up and made the program unlaunchable.