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Time for the obligatory occasional apology for the lack of posts recently. Very busy indeed. Hope to get back to a more regular schedule soon. In the meantime, be sure to check out my Flickr photostream to see what I’ve been taking pictures of, and my Audioscrobbler page to see what I’ve been listening to.…
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I bought a Linksys BEFSX41 Firewall Router a while back and soon after began having some strange problems – certain websites were not resolving (including Blogger and Flickr!!!)… for a while I thought it was something with the DNS server settings, or even my ISP’s DNS servers themselves… I tried all kinds of settings and…
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Mark Evans: “Internet users must either be lazy, ignorant or strangely satisfied with IE. If more people explored the alternatives out there -which would likely encourage developers to come up with new browsers – I believe surfing the Web will become a better experience. With IE dominating – and some would say controlling – the…
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This is great. I’m sure you’ve seen the scam baiters and are aware of the fun that can be had with Nigerians … well, Shizzy takes it to a new, hysterical level in his baiting of a low-level Starbucks Corporate employee. Rock on, Shizzy.
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Disneyland Slides, Circa 1965
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Happy Festivus!
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Mark Pesce: “Hey, Hollywood! Can you feel the future slipping through your fingers? Do you understand how badly you’ve screwed up? You took a perfectly serviceable situation – a nice, centralized system for the distribution of media, and, through your own greed and shortsightedness, are giving birth to a system of digital distribution that you’ll…
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So the MPAA has succeeded in having popular torrent tracker site SuprNova shut down. So? As Douglas Rushkoff noted recently, this latest turn will simply be the impetus the hackers need to find a way of tracking torrents in a more distributed fashion. The harder the studios push, the faster the technology evolves. And once…
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My good friend Noel (Lumpy) is over in Thailand for a cycling holiday and he’s been posting some great pics to his blog. I know this isn’t exactly news, but I love the power of blogs (and photoblogs and moblogs and uh… vacatio-blogs?) for stuff like this – being able to keep in touch with…
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Pictures of kids screaming at Santa.