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Disqus and the NSA/FBI/CSA 9 Jun 2013 | 04:22 pm
If I were a government spook I’d drool at the opportunity to connect the IP addresses from the most widely used commenting system in the United States, Disqus with what I already had gleaned from Face...
Ubuntu: The world’s most popular free OS; NO THANKS 2 Jun 2013 | 03:41 pm
I just wiped out Ubuntu from my computer. The red flag was Ubuntu’s depricating of ffmpeg for a minor fork avconv,- Libav . That got me looking at who is bankrolling Ubuntu. The current baker of Ubunt...
Eva Cassidy 3 Feb 2013 | 04:23 pm
An era ago I was introduced to Eva Cassidy by Jim & Esther. Her singing was intensely beautiful and mesmerizing. Only later I found out she had died way, way too early, only 33, taken by aggressive me...
Exploring the Grand Canyon on Google Maps 31 Jan 2013 | 04:27 pm
Way cool Today, we’re releasing panoramic imagery of one of the world’s most spectacular national monuments: the Grand Canyon. These beautiful, interactive images cover more than 75 miles of trails an...
Sentenced to life 29 Jan 2013 | 07:12 pm
In my country, up until yesterday, there were 32 prisoners serving a life sentence. Counter to popular believe, life means life as in “until death do us part”. Until a few years ago, 20 years was the ...
My country. To settle it ALL 24 Dec 2012 | 02:57 am
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Gun Laws 18 Dec 2012 | 11:47 pm
Piers Morgan stated the number of gun related deaths in the US per DAY is the same as in the UK per year. The UK has amongst the stricktest gun laws in Europe. My newspaper did some fact checking. US:...
A Short history of nearly everything 11 Dec 2012 | 03:10 am
I am reading this kinda sorta scientific book written by Bill Bryson. In my country it is published in a format not larger than a pack of cigarettes, on ultra-thin paper. 100o pages mind you. The quot...
My browser is out of date – Mozilla sucks 9 Sep 2012 | 02:20 pm
I have an old Apple PPC G4 that I use for browsing and reading email. All of the software products offered by the Mozilla Foundation stopped supporting the Apple PPC platform in April 2012 – how odd, ...
AK Politicians hide behind “the web” 18 Jul 2012 | 05:12 pm
So how do you email your elected reps in Washington? Simple answer is you don’t – because their email addresses are not available to voters in Alaska. I’d bet good money that some of the elites up her...
