Best dell bug ever

I found this cool bug at Rickard Liljeberg's blog.

If you have a dell optiplex GX520 and a mobile phone try this but save your work first !

By putting the phone near the cdrom drive it will automatially go in to some weird stand by when you recieve a sms/txt and you cant bring it back to live if you dont shut it down first (either by cutting power or holding down power button for four seconds)

Tags: technology, SMS, blogs, Dell

Fascist Censorship Commission

You risk your life to fight a war to preserve freedom in the world and the USA. Sixty years later some guy decides to make a documentary about that war. Some government agency now has a rule that limits the language that you can use to describe the war. Yes, the same government that you risked your life to save.

I can’t decide who the FCC is trying to emulate: Hitler, Stalin, The Taliban or the puritans during the Salem Witch Trials. I went with Hitler for the pic to keep with the WWII theme.

Anthony Kaufman has a good post about it. The New York Daily News has the story.

Tags: freedom, politics, censorship

Net Neutrality vs. SMS

The opponents of net neutrality claim that with net neutrality the Internet will develop slower and not provide as many services. They also claim the market will prevent them from suppressing a site or service. Do you have a Verizon Wireless cell phone? Have you noticed that you can’t use the multimedia messaging to send a friend a ring tone? That’s because Vzw blocks that. Why would they do that? Because your friend should have to pay for the ring tone. Specifically, your friend should have to pay to download it. So that Vzw can bill the site they download it from for the download from as well as billing your friend. No they’re not protecting the rights of the person who created the ring tone, if they were they would allow that person to give you the right to not have to pay. Weren’t we supposed to be able to use cell phones to pay for things? Why hasn’t that developed as quickly as Internet based technology? Net neutrality is the reason. Without net neutrality the internet will develop as slowly as SMS (the “Internet” capabilities on your cell phone.) The only SMS app that is widely used is text messaging. NewsForge has a good article explaining the “rapid” pace of development on the network without net neutrality aka your cell phone’s Internet. Tags: blogs, Internet, web, freedom, politics, net neutrality, technology, SMS

Lemons

If life gives you lemons... ...make vodka tonics. They taste really good with lemon. Tags: drink, vodka, drinking, lemon, random,

Too Much

I woke up feeling sad yesterday.

Two years since my Mom died.

I heard that Syd passed away.

I wanted to run and hide.

Too much sadness for just one day.

Too much too hide inside.

Tags: poetry, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Life

Today

Two years ago today my Mom died.

Here’s a video of part of the memorial service:

The Rockets' Red Glare

I didn't do much on the Independance Day. I hung out with family and friends.

In the morning we watched The Space Shuttle Discovery launch on NASA TV. It's a great way to celebrate Independance Day. 230 years ago a group of men decided to stand up to tyranny and created a new nation. Now that nation is the greatest nation in history.

Tags: freedom , technology,space

Star Spangled Banner

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming!

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,

In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:

'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion

A home and a country should leave us no more?

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

The Missing Link

Have you ever wondered why our lawmakers do stupid things? Well, as Forrest Gump put it, “Stupid is as stupid does”.

Senator Ted Stevens is quite possibly the dumbest lawmaker ever. In a “speech” (honestly it’s more a collection of grunts, moans and chest thumps than a speech) on Internet neutrality the idiot grunted something about his tubes are tied up and that’s why it takes days for his secretary to send him an Internet. After listening to his gruntings I came to the conclusion that the only thing he has a firm grasp on is his crack pipe.

Listen to his speech and decide for yourself whether this guy is even literate.

Here’s the link:

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1512499

Tags: blogs, Internet, web, freedom, politics, net neutrality, Stupid, technology