So Minel didn’t want a blog anymore, but he’s still got something for interested [and trance-y] audiences. Find him at the same address as before.

And my dear, dear friend Anya is leaving for the Orient in a week - Weifang, China! So she has her new little travel log to keep everybody updated. That is, of course, if she doesn’t get shutdown by the Chinese government. [We will always find a way to disseminate information!] To note, I might be authoring a few posts here and there - but hopefully not because Anya isn’t able to do so herself. I’m sure I will have quite a bit to learn out of this experience too - at least she’ll be able to get a first-hand experience of what it’s like to live in a censorship-happy land and tell me about it over absinthe.

This is what happens when you use somebody else’s pictures.

I am not perfect. After generally pushing people to publish their full feeds, I myself have occasionally went against my own belief and sliced up my own feed. In my defense, it would appear that WP 2.1 did it for me whereas the older version was throwing the full feed even if a [more] tag. But no matter, I have a new plug-in that should take care of that

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… are due to piracy!

No, that’s what they would probably want you to believe. While both Bluray and HD-DVD are technologically capable of delivering the content that they’re supposed to, their foreseeable death will be induced by… one another.

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I love it how, at the very sight of even relatively esoteric security flaws in OS X, hordes of deeply frustrated Windows users starting popping up faster than corn in the microwave about how Apple sucks, Macs are useless and all Mac users are stupid, arrogant and elitist shitheads and they should all die. The facts are irrelevant, the numbers aren’t that important - a flaw was found in Mac OS X allowing remote exploit!!111eleven

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Well maybe hacked is too strong a word… but definitely some follies have taken place. I’ve only spotted it on my RSS just now - but I see others caught glimpse of it too.

The entry does not exist on the blog anymore - but a picture from the blog linked above shows you a little bit of what went on.

… are trying to learn install hard versions of Linux.

iTunes will, every so often, decide to lose track of some of my songs. This hasn’t happened often and generally it always fixed itself up after me indicating where just one of those songs was. But last night, things got a whole lot different. A relatively simple fix later, everything’s back to normal. What I lost? Play Counts :(

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So my University, like all respected Universities around the land, has a Microsoft Student Ambassador. The dude [or dudette] has the task of advertising MS events, products, get students in touch with MS etc. And, unlike some other places that I’ve heard of nowadays, there was a Vista launch event last week. We got the e-mail - spam, as it may be, I think there’s something useful to be gained from knowing when these things are, professional connections are never a bad thing.

But then the guy posts the same thing [below] to the course newsgroups.

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How can one strike a balance between an unregulated flow of information - with the raw sewage that would come through as well - and a unilateral perspective resultant of excessive filtering?

Is censoring censorship a feasible way of enforcing freedom of expression?