February 2012
2 posts
RMPEA
Every now and again, a new abbreviation is born and spreads the Internet like wildfire. I’d like to make a suggestion for one that I think needs to be used, an abbreviation that speaks to a situation so common that I think every office worker has needed it.
It’s the sort of abbreviation that you’ll be wanting to throw out there every time your “Press this button to get the...
January 2012
3 posts
3 tags
“The rallying cry of the 1960′s was Love and Peace. The 2010′s brought us...”
RSS Problems
I’m having some really strange issues with my RSS feed right now, so it’s not an issue on your end. The problem means that many old posts are reappearing as unread new posts all the time.
I hope the problem will be fixed during the week, so stay tuned.
“An outbreak of Chikungunya has been reported in Brazzaville, with at least 20...”
– Yay, I’m going to Congo!
December 2011
14 posts
Wiretap Anywhere by Ambrosia Software
Hi,
I’ve got to say that I’m extremely disappointed in the way you have handled customer information as regards WireTap Anywhere. It’s been since June that you informed us that it wasn’t going to be compatible with OS X Lion - but ever since then, you’ve been conspicuously silent on the subject. For those of us who use WireTap Anywhere in our daily work and...
“The number of Christians around the world has more than tripled in the last 100...”
– I don’t know why, but I think stuff like this is fascinating. Especially interesting is when you look at it in relationship to the geographic distribution of Christians, which has changed dramatically over the century in question.
Are we to assume that this - a rough third of the population...
Creative Frustration
One of the problems that I encounter relatively regularly is a sense of enormous creative frustration. I can go around feeling as if I’ve got libraries worth of stories, plots, characters, worlds, mythologies and mysteries in my head, but not enough time or skill to get them out of my head.
At no point in my life does this become more clear than when I’m reading a particularly good...
“Starving poor people with guns and nothing to lose scare the rich; their...”
– I like his books, but I don’t always agree with Charlie Stross when it comes to various other things. On this point, however, and in the rest of the post, I can’t but feel that he hits the nail square on the head.
“Adblock Plus, the sophisticated surfer’s best friend, is trying something that...”
– Thank you, Adblock. As a content creator that tries to keep a site afloat using advertisement revenue, I salute you.
“Some of you may have heard of the Megaupload video which Universal Music Group...”
– Tom Merritt, host of Tech News Today on twit.tv fights the good fight.
Ekstropodium
I seem to have stumbled onto a mystery on the Internet; a mystery that just becomes more and more astounding the further I dig into it. It all began when I was searching the webs for news from Congo, a country that I will be visiting in a month’s time (Brazzaville, not Kinshasa). One of the sites I landed found durnig the search was www.congoportal.com, which I opened up in a separate tab to...
“You can use the donate button to raise money for a sick cat, but not poor...”
– You know, it’s times like this that I really think we need a good alternative to PayPal to rise up and become the new industry standard. As if it wasn’t enough that these guys are stealing 3.9% of our money every time we send something through there, now they’re imposing arbitrary...
“#SOPA is the vinyl-era legislation trying to manage the industry that requires a...”
– The Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab has decided to leave the Anti-Piracy lobby group for software companies, Business Software Alliance, over its position on US piracy laws.
Good for you, Kaspersky!
“Iceland’s special prosecutor has taken Larus Welding, the former head of...”
– You know, it surprises me over and over again how Iceland seems to be the only country actually doing things right. They let the banks fail, they arrest people who did things wrong and enforce accountability.
Why are other countries bailing out their banks, rewarding the bankers and then pepper...
“Under SOPA, you could get 5 years for uploading a Michael Jackson song, one year...”
– The worst part of it all is that what he’s saying is absolutely true. SOPA and the related copyright enforcing laws have to be abandoned and follow the example of Switzerland, where piracy for personal use is legal.
November 2011
2 posts
So Shoot Me
Remember that time when I said I was done with Wordpress and moving to Tumblr? Then that time I said I was done with Tumblr and moving back to Wordpress? I think that I, after that, said I was done with Wordpress and moved back to Tumblr. Oh, and then there was that time I was done with Tumblr and moved back to Wordpress.
Guess what?
“The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is...”
– - From Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
I like this quote; there’s something about the simplicity of avoiding the traditional liberal/conservative split in your description of politics that appeals to me. For a long time, I would divide politics into neophilic and neophobic, but then I realized that...