to save everyone the ‘trouble’ of having to visit my blog to check on my latest del.icio.us bookmarks, I’ve decided to splice that feed into this one. I don’t post there too often and there shouldn’t be more than one entry per day [to this feed], but if it gets annoying let me know.
The government is running a campaign of fear. From the low level of job security and financial dependence to the higher ground of terrorism, every day the media reminds us of all the reasons for which we are so eagerly throwing away our freedoms.
But I must confess that I, as well, employ a similar tactic. Without necessarily adding myself to their ranks, I feel that all revolutionaries do. ‘We’ remind you of what you may be giving up in the long run, in the hope that the fear it triggers is of persuative enough to generate a reaction. Nobody’s to say either side is right. But as I have said before, it is a matter of balance. Let yourself pulled a bit to either side. Certainly you are able to see danger for yourself - and think which arguments make more sense. But it is easy to miss the consequences of some actions - or, worse, to downplay them. Comfort is better than struggle, but the bread and the circus will run out eventually.
I’m sorry to sometimes use ‘their’ methods. But I, too, am afraid.
There are people out there that really care. Like guys from WordPress that put out a special plugin for people posting from their mobile device. So this is what I’m testing right now and it seems to work fine1.
For anybody else that cares, plugin’s at: http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobileadmin
well there is one small problem to blogging from an iPhone, and it’s not typing speed as some might think. It does seem that mobile Safari does not believe the text input for WordPress really is a text field. So, I have to type in code mode. Not that bad, really, if I can bring info directly from the trenches =)
1. I moved house and had to wait for my ISP to remember to hook me back up online1. I also switched jobs [which is quite not the big event for me anymore] but that took some time to organize and whatnot.
2. The OLED keyboard is out. Go buy one for US$1500.
3. I love it when MAFIAA lackeys get theirs. The latest to get pwnt, as you might’ve heard, are MediaDefender. Full story linked to TorrentFreak at the top of the MediaDefender-Defenders mail archive site2.
4. After reading through some reviews from the Internet Police, I can’t help but wonder why so many people tend to put “fuck you if you don’t like me” notes on their websites. Personal or not, a publicly-accessible website is bound to attract some level of commenting from others. Certainly, if one gets offended so easily by some random Joe’s disparate thoughts on some matter, that someone might just as well quit life: it gets harder than this, fuckers! You have to stand in front of someone that’ll drill you a few more holes and smile. You need to be able to pick apart constructive criticism and see how you can implement it. And for fuck’s sake, doesn’t anyone read anymore?
- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Today I had to deal with some Apple trolling and a reminder of why I appreciate Cupertino’s products.
.. and, two days in, a happy Mac [soon-to-be-power] user.
Please, call me the Mac Daddy.
… that are having fun at DEFCON 15! I can’t wait to find the time and freedom to get there… maybe next year? BTW this baby sounds like the ideal machine to bring there [wipe clean before, wipe clean after, of course =) .]
It seems I can now know what songs I shall listen to… before I do so. Nice. Saves me from having to shuffle iTunes.
