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January 28, 2012  |  blahg, featured, pictures, Stories  |  Comments Off

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Sopa

January 11, 2012  |  featured, How-to, really, Stories  |  No Comments

The govt is about to pass a bill that will enable censorship of the internet.
PLEASE HELP or the world-wide-web will be VERY different .

Check out arstechnica anti-SOPA reasoning :It’s the best reason i’ve read :
SOPA Resistance Day- By Ken Fisher
PLEASE STOP INTERNET CENSORSHIP HERE
Congress is about to pass internet censorship, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill – PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity.

REACTIONS TO THESE BILLS, “SOPA” H.R.3261 AND PIPA S. 978
See how the internet fought back: American Censorship Day in Numbers.

“The potential for abuse of power through digital networks – upon which we as citizens now depend for nearly everything, including our politics – is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age … This is no time for politicians and industry lobbyists in Washington to be devising new Internet censorship mechanisms, adding new opportunities for abuse of corporate and government power over online speech.”
- Rebecca MacKinnon (New York Times)

“These bills were written by the content industry without any input from the technology industry. And they are trying to fast track them through congress and into law without any negotiation with the technology industry.”
- Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures)

“SOPA, regrettably, represents a big step backward in Washington’s efforts to support the digital revolution, one of the only sectors of the economy that continues to grow.”
- Larry Downes (TechFreedom)

“When civil liberties organizations describe the bills as encouraging “American censorship,” a weighty charge, the legal analysis by Professor Tribe and I support that conclusion. At least, according to the American Supreme Court’s established First Amendment jurisprudence.”
- Marvin Ammori (& Laurence Tribe), Leading Constitution Scholars

“It contains provisions that will chill innovation. It contains provisions that will tinker with the fundamental fabric of the internet. It gives private corporations the power to censor. And best of all, it bypasses due legal process to do much of it.”
- James Allworth (Harvard Business School)

“The main “enforcement” mechanism in these bills is to put liability on third party service providers coming from the tech industry, undermining the safe harbors of the DMCA and the legal framework that has allowed tons of important internet platforms to evolve.”
- Mike Masnick (TechDirt)

“[SOPA would] overturn the long-accepted principles and practices [of the DMCA] in favor of a one-sided enforcement mechanism that is far more broad than existing law while not attempting to protect the rights of anyone accused of copyright infringement.”
- Gigi B. Sohn (President of Public Knowledge)

“When ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled and people constrained in their choices, the Internet is diminished for all of us.. There isn’t an economic Internet and a social Internet and a political Internet. There’s just the Internet.”
- Hillary Clinton (United States Secretary of State)

The AQ Test

April 2, 2011  |  featured, really, scientificme  |  3 Comments

It's National Autism awareness day- so i took this test on wired:

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pajama jeans syndrome

March 6, 2011  |  blahg, featured, Stories, video  |  No Comments

whenever this ad for Pj-jeans comes on,

a couple things happen inside my brain:

1) i feel shame- as it forces me to acknowledge to myself that i’m watching LIFETIME, or LMN.

2) i ponder their claim of paying an astronomical 80$ for jeans? where ? i dont recall paying less than 200 in past 10 years.

3) I am reminded of BAD-IDEA JEANS

how to entertain me

February 18, 2011  |  blahg, Stories  |  No Comments

this morning i received these 2 amazingly constructed comments on on a post:

Number one:

check out, its a site all about the very best Music Rockstar on the web!
Check out on the link right here and let me know what you suppose!
- All the perfect

All the perfect?
that line may become my new email sign off, ..it’s kind of all encompassing/well-wishing new-agey huh?

Number two:

hello!,I like your writing so much! share we communicate more about your article on AOL? I need an expert on this area to solve my problem. May be that’s you! Looking forward to see you.

dude…OF COURSE we share communicate on AOL, just name the time!
i solve your problem, maybeeeee
look forward to you two!

fuck off – canadian style..via the CBC

December 26, 2010  |  blahg, featured, music, really, Stories  |  2 Comments

23 things, about this screenshot, strike me as FUNNY.

One:
the no-access,denial message , tempered ever so canadian-lly with :
“Sorry Aboot That”

and the other thing?
being denied access to Canadian media / culture online, by none-other than the penultimate pushers of all things canadian-media related..the CBC.

and the third item of humou, you will find in the comments below. seems someone is mad at something bigger than this post, i think.

et porqoui?
je pense ca must be some serious ass stealth canadian style content they are protecting, not fit for oootsiders eyes/ears..

just in case- save your flickr pics

December 18, 2010  |  hacks, How-to, pictures  |  No Comments

im none too aware when it comes to big business and all its drama;...but that said, thanks to wamu , i did learn to create a sort-of "prick-ur-ears" personal-filter for anysuch news.. which may directly impact me.. and so of Yahoo... I am not REALLY following the recent accounts of the apparent faltering of the interent icon, except for the fact that yahoo owns flickr - whom hosts a shit load of my images - some of which im pretty sure don't exist anywhere else except on flickr servers..

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How to Format your external to backup your mac

How to Format your external to backup your mac

December 15, 2010  |  How-to, mac  |  No Comments

Learn How easy it is to Format (set-up) your external harddrive to start backuping your mac: Open Disk Utility.( Inside Applictaions folder- is Utilitis folder- open to find Disk Utility) The disk utility window looks like this: Select your backup drive from the list on left( mine is the orange one)and click the “Partition” tab.

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Censorship is a good thing – as long as it furthers postbox’s cause.

December 13, 2010  |  angry?, blahg, featured, Stories  |  No Comments

MacUpdate: Member Profile - Ae Creelman_b4r censorship

Macupdate hearts Postbox.

after being perplexed at my comments  being deleted on on postboxs’ forums..and  feeling unfairly represented and  voiceless after Sherman Dickman “cleansed” me and other users feedback..deeming it Abusive (it was hardly so)-i had posted  feedback on macupdate’s site, which  i thought was a neutral app updater site for my fellow  mac peoples..
not so much-
i logged in yesterday to find all my feedback deleted ,there, too- along with a handful of other users postbox feedback-
seems Sherman Dickman is in terrible fear over my thoughts. funny that.
- I’ve since looked into the macupdate site and found some rather interesting facts about its owner:
(it’s all a little dis-hearteneing and eye-opening)
macupdate

Sherman Dickman, ceo of Postbox, deleted my account

December 8, 2010  |  angry?, blahg, featured, really, Stories  |  No Comments

Sherman Dickman, ceo of Postbox, deleted my account on their customer support forum – and my posts- for what he has deemed abusive posting.

FIrst off, let me say , i have been a freelance web dev/fixer for 12 years-which means i test alot of software and   i am online alotalotalot  -constantly sourcing out cool new apps to help streamline my life and work AND enhance my  clients web experience- i test tons – yet most never go further than a test- So when i actually do purchase an app- i have really thought about it-

The instances of finding great,  buy-worthy “paid” apps-that dont have a free/open-source/shareware counterpart,  is rare.

but when i happen on one that i decide to purchase..it’s a whole THING..for me.. buying these smaller apps that really are cool and useful:

because  i feel just a little closer to my community. by getting the chance to support my peers-*

cases in point: panic-,rogueamoeba or obdev

And more than not- my user exp. with most purchased  apps /companies has been amazing- so i will continually pay for upgrades-and if appropriate, promote them to clients-

That’s not to say i haven’t  ended up regretting some purchases-I def. have- Yet ,  never once have i felt the need to express or post negativity online about these companies -Until my postbox exp,

But then again. ive never felt  like i was being dismissed- censored and then misrepresented   without being able to defend my points.


below is the post mr.dickman has published on several user forums / boards , answering other postbox customers asking about my and (other users) deleted posts :

Sherman Dickman replied:
thanks for your comments.  We take post deletion very seriously, and it’s something we very rarely do.

People may criticize the product, or disagree with our policies, that’s perfectly okay.  But we draw the line on forum abuse, or when the ethics of the company are questioned as a means to an end.  Not only do we delete those posts, but we also *ask the authors to leave.”

and here are the abusive comments:

MY DELETED COMMENTS:

( deemed by postbox as forum abuse)

i too automatically updated – to 2.0- thinking this what what i had actually paid for- i paid for this project because i felt it a viable alternative to mac mail-something ive been looking for forever- the fact that it was not free was fine- i didnt mind paying – but i am trully blown away by this policy -

When i purchased postbox- i believe i  should have been  clearly informed before purchase that they would be releasing an upgrade in three weeks-

-that i would have to pay for- therefore giving me the choice to wait  and , essentially, not feel as though i paid to beta test their software for three weeks.

what a shame.

im so perturbed about this – really disappointing – as it seems very shady – especially when a response form postbox basically said- egged me on over this

(sorry the last post got cut off)- i was saying i received an email from postbox support over this issue-basically saying i paid the price of a pizza* for their software- and basically seemed to be very condescending- regarding my perturbed-ness..over being asked to pay again three weeks later-

and to just to back myself up ..( or beat a dead horse)  found this comment from postboxs’ Sherman Dickman, that contradicts my experience:( found macupdate.com/users/Sherman_Dickman )

“we provided one with as much transparency as possible so people can make informed choices.”

nope, you actually didnt.


Forum abuse, eh? wow postbox should get in business with the chinese govt.

*: they didn’t ask me to leave- they sent  an email telling me ‘your user account has been deleted along with all your posts’



The Doggie Lamma

September 28, 2010  |  blahg, favorites, featured, me famille, sadsap, Stories  |  1 Comment

I am so devasted by the death of the doggie Lamma-aka-Helmie- the helmunster…. …so sad that i havent been able to write a post about him and aboout how he affected me- i cant even really do it now.. but here’s an attempt: Helmie and i met during one of my saddest periods in life…and from the first tme we had eye contact: him looking up at me w/ his babydog eyes, and the pure joy he had ..whenever he saw me…saved my life- he loved me and NEVER faked he didnt.

never faltered from just wanting to “get small”


and,in my life, when shitty was shitty – it was always helmie i wanted to see.
he made me feel loved. and i cant stand that i wont see him getting all small as he pranced down the walk when i got there…or the forlorn glances when i was leaving..

Helmut Lohner i love you and thank you dloh, for bringing helmut into my life.


i’m Breaking up with lifehacker

September 21, 2010  |  angry?, blahg, crushes, favorites, featured, hacks, mac, sadsap, Stories  |  No Comments


to this here website,(taintme)-The lifehacker.com site been the absolute fav/bestEver/ go-to site -barnone.
A source of much  inspiration , frequent reblogging and general nerd/hack awesomeness …I’ve found projects that spoke to the hybrid nerd in me ..projects i would actually carry out- start to finish…The site filled a gap that is/was extremely specific to my personality type….( see here for a description…of the male vs of my type) This site was my golden ticket -Gina Trapina my willawonka -So , around a year and a half ago, when she…, Founder/Editor Gina ,handed over the rains, i was a little bummed..but still high on the few years of overindulgent fixes for my machack dependancy.. . i wasn’t that REALLY worried.. i mean it was the site …and i was intrigued- as the site had already become more a community feedback / multi-author depot- since it’s beginnings–mixing hardcore mac tweaks with google fixes and hand-crafted firefox addons.
I trusted the editor shift , as the new lifehacker flow that had been setup was starting to help me understand a lil about Ubuntu and even enjoying a little peecee knowledge, i was  inadvertantly picking up  -
But ..OFCOURSE as with all good things…..lifehacker was not to be as it had once been…slowly…..well not to me…in my hyper vs.-the shift was immeadiate..but regardless of my minds’ over-dramtization, a shift of heavy peecee leanings variety has taken place-
i noticed whenever i opened my feedreader..anticipating a daily project/fix/fact….i increasingly found myself feeling annoyed-as i was seemingly more-than-not greeted with “No New Posts” or posts tagged “Windows Only”

- at first i was second guessing myself- thinking/rationalizing my annoyance at my own sillines…Due to Gina’s over-indulgent mac favoritism…and i just needed to get used to the new editor’s balance of pc/mac posts…
but it has been well over a year since Gina handed it over- and although im sure there are many new lh fans and many old fans pleased-as-punch about the flavour shift… sadly- i am not one- and today, with a sad finger.. i finally hit my delete subscription button-because not only do i rarley get any subscribed feed updates(mac) – but this is the the last one i got , prior to hitting the FAIL button: