This being said in Googleland, and having the privacy options clearly enough spelled out for me that I even understood what I was checking off when opting in or out of this or that, there is some news today/yesterday about this issue that everyone should understand. Verizon got bitch slapped once again in a PA state court, where a judge said their practice of either mailing the opt-out cards to their wireless subscribers "stinks", since it rarely seems to happen, or when it does it's written in so much legal jargon that Atty Gen Holder would re-open GITMO just for their executives. I don't use them, so surfed on over to their website to view the thing for myself, only to be told that the "page unavailable" was Of Course, the one I wanted.
On the same issue, but regarding different carrier sources, The Free Press came out with a story called "The End Of The Internet" as relates to DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) that has been such a hoary problem for the big broadband boys Cox Comm and Comcast recently. The report seems to assign a bit more of a rant than a factual arguement to an issue thats been ongoing for years now, but not all that many people have been paying attention until we all found out how badly the NSA has been intruding into our interwebs. But it's certainly more than worth a read for anyone who's not schooled on the subject of net neutrality.
The last big and most interesting news this week was again, Cisco Systems in the slurping up San Francisco's Pure Digital, a 100 person 8 year old tech company that makes the very popular Flip videocam. Already it has captured about 1/5th of market share, putting right in direct competetion with Sony and the other heavyweights. For $588 Million in stock the company is seemingly a bargain. And since Cisco is going to most certainly have even more server market to divvy up, both Dell and HP are spinning off separate divisions to deal with it. And Rackspace Rackables launched itself into the fray, not that they weren't there already, but their edge is cutting power consumption by up to 25% by using the Intel Atom @320 per rack with it's own fan, and an onborard Ac-Dc power conversion. Makes this market more watchable by the day. Even Intel itself said that by the year 2011 nearly one quarter of it's chips would be used exclusively for the server market. Now just WHY didn't I buy Intel stock back when it was selling at $4.00?? Oh, right, busfare.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Very Cool New Things
Happy St Patricks Day Everyone!!! Way Cool new shit coming out of Austin Texas this week, if you're not a geek and musik freak, then you don't know about the SXSW (South By South West) Festival that been happening there every year for quite some time now. Every tech company every heard of is here, from IBM and Apple, to little known guys like Xiam. It's an impressive display of technology, for cloud computing and servers, and handheld mobile computing. Let me just give TODAY'S news and it's verrrry interesting.
First off, Cisco Systems has announced it's going to be entering the server market, using Intel's Xeon chipsets, which is a total departure for a company that's known for it's router business. Great for them, more competion for HP is a good thing. Next came Quallcom's announcement that it's partnership with Xiam is going to launch a new mobile carrier service, taking demographic info from GPS and API's and offering adverting based on where you are at any given time and place. So if you're like in say Seattle, and there's a concert there, it'll tell you. BUT, not to be out done now, Google has this Thursday launched it's own Latitude service, which basically does the same thing. Both of course raise privacy concerns, and if one company really succeeds, market dominance. I personally am creeped out by my carrier knowing where the hell I am at all times. Sounds just too Huxley to me.
Along with all that there is Google's attack on the the telecom's (which I just LOVE!!) called GoogleVoice. It could revolutionize what we all know of as phone service. It can handle multiple phone calls on one phone number, work, home, cell, whatever. It allows you to route all calls to a easy to use Voice Mail system, using the Interwebs to handle the calls, even having a voice transcription service that route to your laptop!!!! It puts it in direct competion with Skype, an eBay division, so there will be bloodshed. Again, there is that nagging privacy thing, but hell, I'm posting this through a Google service, so how much can I bitch about it. I actually think of my gmail. in-box as the SAFE one, the one where the spam filter actually works. I'm more than happy with it. Let them take on ATT and the rest now. Let the blood flow. The telecoms all sold out our privacy with the FICA rules, so let them all die!!!! (You wouldn't guess that I'm Irish by this rant would ya???lol)
First off, Cisco Systems has announced it's going to be entering the server market, using Intel's Xeon chipsets, which is a total departure for a company that's known for it's router business. Great for them, more competion for HP is a good thing. Next came Quallcom's announcement that it's partnership with Xiam is going to launch a new mobile carrier service, taking demographic info from GPS and API's and offering adverting based on where you are at any given time and place. So if you're like in say Seattle, and there's a concert there, it'll tell you. BUT, not to be out done now, Google has this Thursday launched it's own Latitude service, which basically does the same thing. Both of course raise privacy concerns, and if one company really succeeds, market dominance. I personally am creeped out by my carrier knowing where the hell I am at all times. Sounds just too Huxley to me.
Along with all that there is Google's attack on the the telecom's (which I just LOVE!!) called GoogleVoice. It could revolutionize what we all know of as phone service. It can handle multiple phone calls on one phone number, work, home, cell, whatever. It allows you to route all calls to a easy to use Voice Mail system, using the Interwebs to handle the calls, even having a voice transcription service that route to your laptop!!!! It puts it in direct competion with Skype, an eBay division, so there will be bloodshed. Again, there is that nagging privacy thing, but hell, I'm posting this through a Google service, so how much can I bitch about it. I actually think of my gmail. in-box as the SAFE one, the one where the spam filter actually works. I'm more than happy with it. Let them take on ATT and the rest now. Let the blood flow. The telecoms all sold out our privacy with the FICA rules, so let them all die!!!! (You wouldn't guess that I'm Irish by this rant would ya???lol)
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Haven't Had Much To Say.....Till Now
This piece today is dedicated to the two peace officers slain in Northern Ireland last week. My family is partly from the Belfast area, so I feel a kinship with them all, Catholic and Protestant. The wife of one of the slain officers, Kate Carroll said it best, "If they hope to solve Northern Ireland's land disputes, this is all they'll get, a six foot piece of earth in the ground" I've been a confirmed athiest all my adult life, but I want to say "God Bless You Mrs Carroll, from the bottom of my heart" I had thought that once the Sinn Fein had control of the government of No. Ireland, "The Troubles" would cease. Slim hope that. It was heartening to see so many Catholics and Protestants march together in harmony at the funerals. Thounsands attended, Amazing Grace was sung by the Catholic choir, another Protestant hymn by theirs. I don't beleive that this event will lead to revived violence, but I don't live there. I hope any readers there will write and tell me the skinny. You're all in my thoughts if not my prayers.
Had enough of the Jon Stewart grand CNBC bash?? I had to pull it up on the Comedy Central site just for s & g, and Jon really is more knowledgeable able finance than one would think. He did get some truly good shots in, and his opponent had no come backs. I've never watched "Fast Money" or anything on CNBC at all, never having that kind of dough. His guest appeared on Martha Stewart (Convicted Tax Felon??) prior to his appear on the Daily Show, and pounded the crap out of some pie dough, Marth egging him on that it was Jon. THAT was funny! She's really funny when she doesn't try to be.
What's up with the Obama administration?? They seem to have some kind of Bush Fetish. Everytime I read the NY Times or the HuffPo or Whatever, Obama is backing down on one more thing. Next he'll be drilling for oil on the White House lawn. As a devout leftist, I am getting very impatient about GITMO, Abu Grahib, the restoration of civil rights for all people, the excess of power of the excutive branch, the story goes on and on and on, All the abuses of the criminal Bush admininistration seem to just be absorbed by the the current one. But should we expect better? We the People, gave the Bushies those powers. It's our own damn fault. And until we get the ACLU and other groups to do their jobs and sue the goverment for access, we'll get nowhere. One woman sued to have her husband released from GITMO, and they won't even admit that he's there. Still. NOW! After seven years. The ACLU knows he's there. They've seen him, interviewed him. But that doesn't COUNT!! Unless the government says you're there, you're not.. Fucking Crazy. Today Obama said he would not call them "enemy combatanats", but still would not let them go. You can call them "Banana Slingers" for all the difference it makes. Put them on trial, see whose guilty or not. Or courts system may be overburdened, buit I think we could handle the couple hundred there. And in the other "Secret Prisons" the term that makes my stomach do flops. Just Do It Obama! Get It Over With and get On with The Business of Running the Country!
Well, enough rant for today. I want to end in a peaceful mode, not that there's some nice world/trance music on Pandora. Blessings to you all in Northern Ireland, you have my heart, and my name.
Had enough of the Jon Stewart grand CNBC bash?? I had to pull it up on the Comedy Central site just for s & g, and Jon really is more knowledgeable able finance than one would think. He did get some truly good shots in, and his opponent had no come backs. I've never watched "Fast Money" or anything on CNBC at all, never having that kind of dough. His guest appeared on Martha Stewart (Convicted Tax Felon??) prior to his appear on the Daily Show, and pounded the crap out of some pie dough, Marth egging him on that it was Jon. THAT was funny! She's really funny when she doesn't try to be.
What's up with the Obama administration?? They seem to have some kind of Bush Fetish. Everytime I read the NY Times or the HuffPo or Whatever, Obama is backing down on one more thing. Next he'll be drilling for oil on the White House lawn. As a devout leftist, I am getting very impatient about GITMO, Abu Grahib, the restoration of civil rights for all people, the excess of power of the excutive branch, the story goes on and on and on, All the abuses of the criminal Bush admininistration seem to just be absorbed by the the current one. But should we expect better? We the People, gave the Bushies those powers. It's our own damn fault. And until we get the ACLU and other groups to do their jobs and sue the goverment for access, we'll get nowhere. One woman sued to have her husband released from GITMO, and they won't even admit that he's there. Still. NOW! After seven years. The ACLU knows he's there. They've seen him, interviewed him. But that doesn't COUNT!! Unless the government says you're there, you're not.. Fucking Crazy. Today Obama said he would not call them "enemy combatanats", but still would not let them go. You can call them "Banana Slingers" for all the difference it makes. Put them on trial, see whose guilty or not. Or courts system may be overburdened, buit I think we could handle the couple hundred there. And in the other "Secret Prisons" the term that makes my stomach do flops. Just Do It Obama! Get It Over With and get On with The Business of Running the Country!
Well, enough rant for today. I want to end in a peaceful mode, not that there's some nice world/trance music on Pandora. Blessings to you all in Northern Ireland, you have my heart, and my name.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Stimulate This!
Well all Seniors and Disabled on Social Security benefits can now rest easy, their HUGE $250 stimulus check is all but a signature away.....The Bill was voted thru both houses of Congress, without a single Repug even looking up from the desk. Some $789 Billion in new spending and tax cuts was approved late yesterday, and unless you were comatose or highly sedated on your last Valium script, you already know all about the details of which I won't bother with here. The Greenies are happy, what with the dark ages of Bushism seemingly behind them, the Public Transit people seem pleased, so why do I have this nagging doubt, this pervasive sense of doom? That it's all going to be taken away like a favored holiday toy, never to see the light again? Could happen, I mean, were talking huge money here. No reason why this thing couldn't hit the crapper in some last minute conference committee, appropriations committee? Something like that. After eight years of having ALL my toys taken away, I'm not overly optimistic until I have the check in my hand. Conditioned pessimism if you will.
Someone asked me this morning why I only blog every couple of days, why don't I write a daily column? Good question, but an even better answer. I need at least a couple of days for the research required for each column I write. If I had lackeys. it'd be much easier, as when I worked for another magazine and had an e-mail in-box full of material waiting for me every bloody morning. I gotta find every bit myself and fact check it. It may seem effortless and the gratuitous use of profanity enforces that perception, but its anything but. I read for a minimum of five hours EVERY day, including weekends. Its a LOT of ground to cover, and a lot of facts to cross check, with no help from anyone, and a household to care for besides. What I wouldn' t give for a lackey or two. Anyone interested, I pay nothing, the hours suck and I have an evil mind and temper. But I make cookies.
Today is St Valentine's Day, and once again I have no partner with which to share it. Me and half the civilized world apparently. Doesn't bother me much anymore, but it does other people. I read massive amounts of very sad posts on everywhere from Salon.com to the NYTimes.com, and while I did ingest a bit more chocolate as a result, it didn't get me down anymore than reading about say "the War in Iraq"[tm], or the vastly more criminal "War on Drugs" [tm] do on any given day of the week. In fact my big bright spot was reading in the NYTimes about how the State of Calif. was going to have to discharge 55,000 low level no-violent incarcerated folks from their prison system. Due to a State Supreme Court ruling there, they are being forced to. Too bad they had to be MADE to do it, but it's a good start for someone like me, a member of the Prison Reform Project and The Drug Policy Foundation for like, EVER. A great start for the rest of the country to follow suit. Made my day not sad at all. I certainly hope that you and (if ya gots one) your other had/have a lovely day and night.
Someone asked me this morning why I only blog every couple of days, why don't I write a daily column? Good question, but an even better answer. I need at least a couple of days for the research required for each column I write. If I had lackeys. it'd be much easier, as when I worked for another magazine and had an e-mail in-box full of material waiting for me every bloody morning. I gotta find every bit myself and fact check it. It may seem effortless and the gratuitous use of profanity enforces that perception, but its anything but. I read for a minimum of five hours EVERY day, including weekends. Its a LOT of ground to cover, and a lot of facts to cross check, with no help from anyone, and a household to care for besides. What I wouldn' t give for a lackey or two. Anyone interested, I pay nothing, the hours suck and I have an evil mind and temper. But I make cookies.
Today is St Valentine's Day, and once again I have no partner with which to share it. Me and half the civilized world apparently. Doesn't bother me much anymore, but it does other people. I read massive amounts of very sad posts on everywhere from Salon.com to the NYTimes.com, and while I did ingest a bit more chocolate as a result, it didn't get me down anymore than reading about say "the War in Iraq"[tm], or the vastly more criminal "War on Drugs" [tm] do on any given day of the week. In fact my big bright spot was reading in the NYTimes about how the State of Calif. was going to have to discharge 55,000 low level no-violent incarcerated folks from their prison system. Due to a State Supreme Court ruling there, they are being forced to. Too bad they had to be MADE to do it, but it's a good start for someone like me, a member of the Prison Reform Project and The Drug Policy Foundation for like, EVER. A great start for the rest of the country to follow suit. Made my day not sad at all. I certainly hope that you and (if ya gots one) your other had/have a lovely day and night.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Son Of Failout......oooooh very very scary timmy!
At the same time as the House and Senate were, for the sake of bipartisanship and stimulusness compromising their collective souls to your______ (add religion) very own devil, Timmy "I'm still called Timmy" Geithner was very, very busy pulling the very largest heist in criminal history, by assembling all the policy and economic wonks he could afford to purchase (that were given time off from their day jobs at Wendy's Fine Burgers) in order to justify to the public and the world just WHY the same crappy bailout scheme that Hankie "Don't Fuckin Call Me That" Paulsen foisted upon us in a two page memo just last September, would conceivably work a second time around, even with a tad bit more "transparency". Of course Uncle Timmy had more than a dinky two page note (that presumably the dog ate on his way to school, so he wasn't prepared for the test) and should be excused ANYWAY since the case of explosive diarrhea that the stock markets had to his notions was just as predictable as Mr Brown, the fourth grade teacher who didn't buy that shit anyway and made him take the test with smelly pants. Even the French wouldn't sit next to him. The markets worldwide went into an absolute freefall clusterfuck. Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, world renowned economist and pretty nice guy, wouldn't take his Twitter messages. Oprah put all her billions in bullion. Mickey Mouse, who's like 130 years old by now, and living in Palm Springs next door to OJ, called me to say, in his inimitable squeaky way, "WTF!!!" Long story short, no one bought it, even the fucking bankers on Fucking WALL STREET!! I can see where the WS wankers getting all shirty if it was going to actually HURT them, but Timbo's plan doesn't, not in any way thats yet been revealed. Perhaps it'll be like on of those old radio serial dramas, where the listeners, audience, even the damn writers didn't know what peril the next episode was going to whoever was in dire danger in the previous installment. Or maybe it's like one of those "Toxic HomeLoans"[tm] where the next payment is the big SUUURRRPISE payment of 90% of the original loan. And we all know how well those worked out for the country now dont we class? Won't forget your homework again now will you Timmy? Good. Because the next time you do you have to spend recess in the dum dum de dum CLOAK ROOOOM!!! And the last guy to spend recess in there alone was never seen again!!! Not ALIVE ANYWAY!! BWAHHHH....
Some of the mail I get is very serious, and it can really get me down if I read it all in one clip, or as just happened, a machine malfunction caused my e-mail to pile up to astronomical proportions. And I cant be one of those people who deletes the lot and forgets about it. It would rankle. Teeth would gnash. Thoughts would be with some deposed dictators ex-wife who needs ME to help her get 90 kagillion US dollars out of the Republic of Swaziland safely to her home on Park Ave in New York. (Yes I know know that Swaziland has a King, but lets not split heirs) So the thing that I did do is go through all four separate mail accounts, and delete line by line everything that even had a spammy smell. That took two days. We're talking several thousand e-mails here, not even including the ones in the spam boxes, which just went bye-bye as is. Finally I get it down to yesterdays and todays mail, no sweat, I say to myself. "Self, you've done a magnificent job of work it would've taken many lesser humans weeks to accomplish, treat thyself, self!" And it being Wednesday, an unusally warm and clement day for winter, nearly SIXTY degrees for Dogs sake! Get oujt side and get some exercise, and enjoy this fine day. So I harness up the Boston Terrorist, put on the ratty old New Balance shoes cause theres sure to be mud and dog shit, and hit a local nature trail. Nearly two miles of semi-unspoiled wetlands in the midst of an industrial neighborhood (I may be from a professsion that breeds wealth, but it skipped my generaton!) and joined many other like minded souls. It being still WINTER, there was still much ice on the unpaved path, and much mud and dog-shit as predicted. What I had not in any way predicted was a complete and total moron on a RACING BICYCLE! ON ICE! In February! This looney was going as fast as physics and his vehicle would allow, but I didn't see him until after my dog did. The dog was on an retractable lead, OK for walking on sidewalks, on icy trails, no so much. Bostons are small but solid dogs, with very thick necks, and a very determined nature. His determination was to catch and kill the idiot on the trail bike. That there was anyone else on the other end of the lead was not in his focus. So my dog charged the biker, who didn't see the smallish canine, but heard him, and promptly ran his bike off the trail into the marsh, sailing headfirst into the muck and ice. The dog must have thought he killed it, and moved onto other more interesting subjects, like why was the "Food Guy" lying there on the ground screaming in pain? Well, FG as he calls me around the house, was hurt kinda bad. Seems that when FG's hand went flying trying to hold onto said lead, its partner hit the ground at an angle that doctors, this one included, do not recommend. After limping home and dumping off the Terrorist, I went to my local orthopod, who said I broke my wrist. After correcting him that my dog broke it trying to successfully (well, one can hope) kill an idiot cyclist, I took his pain med prescription to the pharmacy and am ever so thankful that the wrist was my left one. Self love is REALLY difficult with a cast on your wrist!
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Everyone Stand Up And Cheer!
Ahhll be going pink today, as the rights of 18,00 legally married LBGT couples in California hangs in the balance in the state's Supreme Court. I just can't understand it. I always thought of Jerry Brown as the liberal's liberal. Mayhap there was an alien abduction at some point and he was injected with Sean Hannitty's brain. And now as Attorney General, he is one of the standard bearers for forcible divorce, a thing as yet unheard of in this country. Prop 8 was bad, but this fight's gonna get nasty. The money pouring into the Right's coffers is HUGE! And it's sure not coming from Joe Sixpack anymore. He can't affford a quart bottle of malt liquor now.
Along with Kenneth Starr, yup, that guy, the stains on Monica's dress guy, the one who wrote a book so long it had to be published in THREE volumes guy. It sickens me and brings back the rage that I felt when Reagan would not even utter the acronym of AIDS in 1983, bringing death to tens of thousands more innocents who might have been helped. Praise Allah, Buddha, Mohamed, the Dali Lama, an old Oak tree, whatever your faith may be, if you even have one at all, that there are people out there like Rick Jacobs from the Courage Campaign, fighting on the ground and in the media. More and more are stepping up every day, straight or not, to say that this is just plain wrong. But more need to be out there in the spotlight!
Like it or not, we are a celebrity driven culture, and if more Hollywood A-listers get up in front of a camera and say don't fuck with these loving peoples's lives, and many more television celebs of the minute do it too, in a BIGG way, like lots of man on man smooching at awards shows, people WILL pay attention. But we CANNOT let guys like Rick go it alone. He needs your encouragement and more, he needs money. Please donate to the CourageCampaign.org They've accomplished in just months what the Human Rights Campaign has taken YEARS to do. But don't think that the HRC is just sitting around on their asses. They DO good work, and I admire them in many ways, but when it comes to street level activism, they seem to have forgotten HOW. But I believe that they're re-learning. I look forward to Joe Solmonese to prove me right on that one.
Well, the economy is tanking even further with uncle Timmy spreading dough out like a pizza maker, the Dow drops soons as he says "Hello". The stimulus package isn't much of New New Deal, more like old Bushily crap. Tax breaks are almost half of it. Who GIVES a shit about taxes when you don't have a job anymore??? Wake me up when they do something about the poor and the near poor (formerly called the middle class). I'm popping some Xanax and forgetting for a while. All this "bi-partisanship" bullshit leaves a really nasty taste in my mouth. Like rideing bareback with a "escort", and realising halfway into it that his personal hygiene is less than desirable. Not that I'd EVER do such a thing, but I lived in LA for two decades, there's NOTHING I haven't seen at least once. My actual preference is for bookish, university types. My late husband was a poet and author, and was my absolute ideal for a mate. But now I'm not even certain how to aproach a man, it's been so long since I've done that mating ritual dance thing. I tried some online dating services, but most of the guys I met were after only one thing. Money. Anyone with any practical suggestions, I sure be grateful to hear them!! It gets pretty lonely in a huge crowd.
This post was brought to you by my brand spankin new Toshiba Satellite laptop, just aquired the day before yesterday. I will make sacrifices to the Gods of The Hard Drives that this will prove to be crash proof, and my new posts will be regular and interesting. Thanks to Mike and John and all the techs at Optimum.net who keep my broadband up and running.
Along with Kenneth Starr, yup, that guy, the stains on Monica's dress guy, the one who wrote a book so long it had to be published in THREE volumes guy. It sickens me and brings back the rage that I felt when Reagan would not even utter the acronym of AIDS in 1983, bringing death to tens of thousands more innocents who might have been helped. Praise Allah, Buddha, Mohamed, the Dali Lama, an old Oak tree, whatever your faith may be, if you even have one at all, that there are people out there like Rick Jacobs from the Courage Campaign, fighting on the ground and in the media. More and more are stepping up every day, straight or not, to say that this is just plain wrong. But more need to be out there in the spotlight!
Like it or not, we are a celebrity driven culture, and if more Hollywood A-listers get up in front of a camera and say don't fuck with these loving peoples's lives, and many more television celebs of the minute do it too, in a BIGG way, like lots of man on man smooching at awards shows, people WILL pay attention. But we CANNOT let guys like Rick go it alone. He needs your encouragement and more, he needs money. Please donate to the CourageCampaign.org They've accomplished in just months what the Human Rights Campaign has taken YEARS to do. But don't think that the HRC is just sitting around on their asses. They DO good work, and I admire them in many ways, but when it comes to street level activism, they seem to have forgotten HOW. But I believe that they're re-learning. I look forward to Joe Solmonese to prove me right on that one.
Well, the economy is tanking even further with uncle Timmy spreading dough out like a pizza maker, the Dow drops soons as he says "Hello". The stimulus package isn't much of New New Deal, more like old Bushily crap. Tax breaks are almost half of it. Who GIVES a shit about taxes when you don't have a job anymore??? Wake me up when they do something about the poor and the near poor (formerly called the middle class). I'm popping some Xanax and forgetting for a while. All this "bi-partisanship" bullshit leaves a really nasty taste in my mouth. Like rideing bareback with a "escort", and realising halfway into it that his personal hygiene is less than desirable. Not that I'd EVER do such a thing, but I lived in LA for two decades, there's NOTHING I haven't seen at least once. My actual preference is for bookish, university types. My late husband was a poet and author, and was my absolute ideal for a mate. But now I'm not even certain how to aproach a man, it's been so long since I've done that mating ritual dance thing. I tried some online dating services, but most of the guys I met were after only one thing. Money. Anyone with any practical suggestions, I sure be grateful to hear them!! It gets pretty lonely in a huge crowd.
This post was brought to you by my brand spankin new Toshiba Satellite laptop, just aquired the day before yesterday. I will make sacrifices to the Gods of The Hard Drives that this will prove to be crash proof, and my new posts will be regular and interesting. Thanks to Mike and John and all the techs at Optimum.net who keep my broadband up and running.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Catching UP!
No I haven't forgotten anything, haven't forgotten the English language or anything so drastic. I may be old, at the age where one's mind starts slipping gears and things fall by the wayside. But I always know where my loyalties lie. With my readers. All four of you!! And to that end here I am back at the library, racing through another script.
Now President Obama is going to close Guantanamo Bay and the other CIA prisons worldwide, as he said he would. Good. He's going to stick to the Army Field Manual in regards to torture. Good. All Good. He's going to push through his massive stimulus program. Excellent. He's going to increase the troops in Afganistan by 30,000 ?? WTF? The Afgani President Hamid Karzai, who we were instrumental in installing in office, is livid that we seem to be killing an enormous amount of women and children this week in raids that have left many dead. Even he doesn't want us there. Let's look at history. The Brits tried and failed to control the region, the Soviets and the the Russian's tried and failed, what makes the US think it can do better?? Damned if I know. Good luck with that. The US military should just start to desert.
Anyone catch the latest "Clean Coal" ads on Discovery?? They're using a clip from O's trail speech where he talks about it. Bad move O. That'll come back to bite ya. Anyone with a eighth grade education and a lick of common sense knows the technology does not yet exist, and even when it comes to being it may not achieve it's goal of capturing carbon emissions. The jury is out on whether piping carbon into the ground will work or worsen the problem. And that's 30 years off AT LEAST.
Well, I won't be back for a few weeks, until the new computer is shipped in. This librayry has excellent ones but one hour is not enough time!!! Until I return, please check out my favorite blogs, links on this page.
Now President Obama is going to close Guantanamo Bay and the other CIA prisons worldwide, as he said he would. Good. He's going to stick to the Army Field Manual in regards to torture. Good. All Good. He's going to push through his massive stimulus program. Excellent. He's going to increase the troops in Afganistan by 30,000 ?? WTF? The Afgani President Hamid Karzai, who we were instrumental in installing in office, is livid that we seem to be killing an enormous amount of women and children this week in raids that have left many dead. Even he doesn't want us there. Let's look at history. The Brits tried and failed to control the region, the Soviets and the the Russian's tried and failed, what makes the US think it can do better?? Damned if I know. Good luck with that. The US military should just start to desert.
Anyone catch the latest "Clean Coal" ads on Discovery?? They're using a clip from O's trail speech where he talks about it. Bad move O. That'll come back to bite ya. Anyone with a eighth grade education and a lick of common sense knows the technology does not yet exist, and even when it comes to being it may not achieve it's goal of capturing carbon emissions. The jury is out on whether piping carbon into the ground will work or worsen the problem. And that's 30 years off AT LEAST.
Well, I won't be back for a few weeks, until the new computer is shipped in. This librayry has excellent ones but one hour is not enough time!!! Until I return, please check out my favorite blogs, links on this page.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
theothercrash
It was a normal day like any other, starting with opening the mail program, sorting and discarding the spam, or so I thought.....and WHAAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Flashing lights, screen madness, and no way to stop it!!! Tried the old power off and on real quick, after Ctrl/Alt/Delete did nothing......still no operating system. Panic sets in....where the hell are all the files I was working on, the ones I hadn't gotten to backing up this week??? Can't find ANY files, nothing ias working, the mouse has gotten killed by a very vicious kitty cat indeed. The keyboard is just that, a board, it has no more function than a slab of plywood. Then I remember reading about this virus going around the cyberverse, it doesn't have a name, as there's more than one of them, many in fact that do the same thing, all catagorized as malware.
It's usually sent as attachments to spam, but can be written into the spam itself, so opening it isn't the necessary move that we need make to catch one. According to Sid Kirchheimer, author of "Scam-Proof Your Life", published by AARP Books/Sterling Press, and author of a report from which I quote in the Jan-Feb issue of the AARP Bulletin title "Conning The Curious". E-Mails have been circulating since September in poorly written English in the Title line, "We Have Kidnapped Your Baby" with an attachment saying "We has attached photo of your fume [family]." These are designed to unleash a virus that steals your passwords and gains access to bank accounts and other personal information. Others yet claim to be attachments of airline ticket confirmations, invoices, or onlinine banking forms from newly merged banks. It's usually sent a criminal in another country. But not only do they steal your info, they can destroy your computer!! Last year alone malware cost US consumers $7 Billion and forced 850,000 people to replace their computers, just as must do right now. I am writing today from a public access computer at the local library, and will not be publishing again until I can replace my "baby".
I loved that old dog of a computer. It was way obsolete, outdated, and slow, but so am I. It kept pace with me quite nicely. Now I'll get something that will be so freaking unbeleiveably fast that it's waiting impatiently for me to cartch up to IT. I'm looking the used route, but thats where I found my last four machines, and not one lasted more than a year. This last one I had for just about 11 months. A record. If it weren't for some fucker's greedy virus crashing it so bad that my repair guy just looked at me with a vacant stare, and said, "Sorry, nothing I can do."
See you again soon I hope.
It's usually sent as attachments to spam, but can be written into the spam itself, so opening it isn't the necessary move that we need make to catch one. According to Sid Kirchheimer, author of "Scam-Proof Your Life", published by AARP Books/Sterling Press, and author of a report from which I quote in the Jan-Feb issue of the AARP Bulletin title "Conning The Curious". E-Mails have been circulating since September in poorly written English in the Title line, "We Have Kidnapped Your Baby" with an attachment saying "We has attached photo of your fume [family]." These are designed to unleash a virus that steals your passwords and gains access to bank accounts and other personal information. Others yet claim to be attachments of airline ticket confirmations, invoices, or onlinine banking forms from newly merged banks. It's usually sent a criminal in another country. But not only do they steal your info, they can destroy your computer!! Last year alone malware cost US consumers $7 Billion and forced 850,000 people to replace their computers, just as must do right now. I am writing today from a public access computer at the local library, and will not be publishing again until I can replace my "baby".
I loved that old dog of a computer. It was way obsolete, outdated, and slow, but so am I. It kept pace with me quite nicely. Now I'll get something that will be so freaking unbeleiveably fast that it's waiting impatiently for me to cartch up to IT. I'm looking the used route, but thats where I found my last four machines, and not one lasted more than a year. This last one I had for just about 11 months. A record. If it weren't for some fucker's greedy virus crashing it so bad that my repair guy just looked at me with a vacant stare, and said, "Sorry, nothing I can do."
See you again soon I hope.
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