i’ve been on a crash course about video conversion and coding for web presentation of video format files over the past three days. i’ve learned a lot, but i still have a lot more to learn, and i’m sort of wondering why i need to know this crap stuff… i’ve currently got a video on [...]
Tagged geek stuff, rants, web designi made my monthly backup, which is now in the process of downloading. i’ve discovered that, pretty commonly, and regardless of platform, if i download using http, i get about ¾ of the way through the download, and it just ends, for no obvious reason, but if i download using ftp, everything appears on the [...]
Tagged geek stuff, incense, pupples, rantsIn the spirit going back to Magna Carta, we require a principle that: No person or organization shall be deprived of their ability to connect to others at will without due process of law, with the presumption of innocence until found guilty. Neither governments nor corporations should be allowed to use disconnection from the Internet [...]
Tagged i am a terrorist, links, quotes, rantsbut by monday there’s a possibility that nobody would be able to read about it… Internet Shut Down in Egypt – “But Biden Says Mubarak is No Dictator” what would you call someone who deliberately shuts off the only means of communicating with the outside that most of his – dissatisfied – constituents have? is [...]
Tagged i am a terrorist, links, rants, technologylisten to this while reading the following post: Have Sex and Die! from Mothra! an opera about insects by Pliny Keep i got a “connect” message from LinkedIn today, for someone i know only vaguely. i thought about it for a long time before i acceded to their request, and almost immediately i discovered that [...]
Tagged fezorocity, geek stuff, rants, technologysince geico made their xtranormal commercial, things have changed: apparently the characters and sets that used to be free are no longer free, which includes the character and the set in chapter 6. i don’t know if this is because they have introduced new free characters, or if it is because they changed their business [...]
Tagged rants, tina choppso i just thought i’d put it out there… since, apparently, some people just won’t take a hint… every spam comment that is submitted to my blog is marked as spam (which is why it doesn’t immediately appear as a comment: for that, i have to approve your comment, which won’t happen if it’s spam) [...]
Tagged rants, spamThink US politics are absurd? Brazilians elect actual clown to Congress – brazil has its collective shit together in more than two ways that i’ve noticed recently… maybe american politicians should be paying more attention to the brazilians… 60% of countries will be bankrupt within 50 years – the only hopeful thing about the future [...]
Tagged bizarre, blasphemy, brazil, corruption, i am a terrorist, jeezis, links, rants, technologyi don’t often admit to hating pretty much anything, but i will admit, whole-heartedly, to hating spam with a white-hot passion… i’m going to use this as an example of how i determine something which is not labled spam, is actually spam. the following is a text-dump of the entire message, with the headers intact. [...]
Tagged rants, spamLinkedIn Zeus spam run targets prospective business marks – i’ve been getting this spam for three weeks and i haven’t picked up the ZeuS trojan yet… of course, i haven’t been clicking on any links in mail that crosses my desk labled as “spam”, and i have been reporting messages that claim to be from [...]
Tagged rants, spamThe City That Ended Hunger – Buckminster Fuller said that we, as a people, have posessed the technology for 50 years (and he said this almost 50 years ago) to create a world where nobody has to work to survive. Why Bother Working At A Job You Hate? and The RICH Economy are my attempts [...]
Tagged big brother, bizarre, cannabis, geek stuff, gulf oil spill, i am a terrorist, imaginary pooperty, links, music, pictures, rants, technology, the very big stupidso i’ve been doing some maintenance on sedentarysousa dot com. i uploaded the last of the changes, and refreshed the browser, only to get one of those “Firefox can’t find the server at www.sedentarysousa.com” messages. i restarted firefox. i flushed my DNS cache, and the DNS cache of my router. i rebooted the machine, and [...]
Tagged bssb, malfunctioning computers, rants, technology, web designi don’t use facebook for a large number of reasons. primary among these is that, despite the fact that a lot of my current friends are facebook members, there are certain people from my past that might want to get in touch with me, and i would prefer it a great deal if they did [...]
Tagged bizarre, cannabis, drugs, i am a terrorist, links, livejournal, malfunctioning people, rants, the very big stupidi’ve subscribed to a number of anti-evolutionist blogs (for entertainment purposes only, mind you). this one, from It’s Harvest Time typifies the combination of laughable, and frightening ignorance which i frequently find so disturbing that i question my own sanity in subscribing to wingnuts like this. i originally wrote “freaks like this” but then i [...]
Tagged blasphemy, crazy people, evolution, jeezis, rants, the very big stupidTwitter bug creates account hijacking peril – i’m not sure that this is exactly related to what i have been experiencing, but it does explain a lot, especially since i didn’t start experiencing a problem until after i had “disabled” my twitter account… now to determine whether or not there is a way to prevent [...]
Tagged gripes, links, malfunctioning computersapparently either something was “stuck” in my computer that i deleted when i deleted and re-uploaded my blog yesterday, or something else is going on, because so far, the unauthorised authorisation dialogue that has been plaguing me for the past three days has now flown the coop… grr. it’s back again… 8/ it’s like it [...]
Tagged bizarre, linux-maintenance, malfunctioning computers, rantsi’m fairly sure that the authorisation dialogue message that (still) won’t go away is somehow connected to my blog. when i shut down my computer yesterday, there was an authorisation dialogue box on my screen, but when i started up this morning it wasn’t there. so, i paid very close attention to what i started [...]
Tagged bizarre, linux-maintenance, malfunctioning computers, rantsi went to the twitter web site and quickly determined that there wasn’t a way to connect with a tech-support drone who had any hope of giving me a cogent answer to my (primarily twitter-related) problem – one of the reasons i was so hesitant to get wrapped up in this whole thing to begin [...]
Tagged bizarre, geek stuff, linux-maintenance, rantsi didn’t want to, but i signed up for a twitter account, allegedly so i could “keep in contact” with the previous host provider… no, this isn’t going to be another gripe about my host provider, although it starts out seeming that way, bear with me… of course, it didn’t work, and i don’t have [...]
Tagged malfunctioning computers, pictures, rantsi am writing this from portland. to be specific, i am writing this from the back yard of my mother-in-law’s house. when i booted up my battery-powered laptop, it automatically found a network, and logged me in. it also found 3 other networks, for which i don’t have the password stored in my computer. my [...]
Tagged big brother, corruption, geek stuff, i am a terrorist, malfunctioning computers, rants, the very big stupidso i was forced, once again, to switch host providers. i was having a conversation with the (now) previous host provider, who said that there was nothing to worry about, and then, two days (literally) later, i get an email from him that says he’s going out of business – again… he gave me a [...]
Tagged host services, rantsi was driving home this afternoon when i had a realisation: this society is screwed up, mentally, and it comes from the fact that there are two very powerful, but entirely opposite messages being propagated from a very early age. one message is that everyone is equal: things like the constitution, the bill of rights [...]
Tagged i am a terrorist, important things to remember, rants, the very big stupidCrabs provide evidence oil tainting Gulf food web – oil spill? what oil spill? wasn’t that two weeks ago? 8/ and, while we’re on the subject of oil, 2,487.5 mpg! Catchy headline unneccessary – “We find it incredibly thrilling to report mpg ratings that require a comma so we’re going to write it again: 2,487.5 [...]
Tagged bizarre, blasphemy, dreams, gulf oil spill, i am a terrorist, jeezis, links, rantslet’s start off with a bit of double-you-tee-eff, shall we? Topless sunbather accused of sensuously rubbing in sun cream – keep in mind, this happened in italy, where it is legal for women to go topless on the beach everywhere, and not just in secluded areas. apparently, however, that was okay with the mother of [...]
Tagged bizarre, blasphemy, cannabis, imaginary pooperty, jeezis, links, rantsin a dramatic about face, flickr/yahoo actually admitted that memoriasdopac.org.br was, actually, abusing their priveledges as a flickr API subscriber, and cancelled their account. the thing that amuses me is the way they put it in the email they sent me: We’re very sorry for the previous email we sent to you. The site you [...]
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