I survived the great ‘node outage of April 2009
So a little after 10pm what turned out to be the great ‘node outage of April 2009 arrived when i discovered my internet connection was down. At first i thought that it was a suddenly repeat performance of the connection problem i was having before Easter and meant crappy to no connections. I never found out what the cause of the problem was but i expect Telstra stuffed something.
So there i was trying to connect last night and nothing was happening. Oh noes, not again. What has telstra stuffed this time? How true it was when i read Telstra under fire over response to Tassie outage. The cynical side of me thought that it was some kind of telstra revenge for internode being about to pull 75% of their business to use basslink instead. Perhaps I am just cynical.
Bohemian Rhapsody like you never heard it before
Boheminan Rhapsody like you never seen or heard it before!
Now Reading Has online piracy reached a tipping point?
Was just reading Has online piracy reached a tipping point?
Whether it be downloading movies illegally on the Pirate Bay, ripping a movie rental from Netlix to a computer hard drive, republishing an unauthorized copy of a news photograph to the Web, or sharing music via peer-to-peer services, the people who create this content have begun to send a message: “no more free lunches.”
And so soon after I became a Preliminary Pirate too!
Now a Preliminary Pirate
I will be perfectly honest, i am not a huge fan of politics as the whole activity of politics can get in the way of good government as our politicians cury favour to keep their seat for the next time there is an election. It means you end up with decisions being taken based on political sense rather than common sense. Not that i am advocating an alternative system, dictatorship doesn’t mean better government, of that i am sure.
So it comes as a bit of a suprise to announce i have joined the Australian Pirate Party and not the kind with eye patches and parrots on one shoulder. Rather the free culture and the ability to do what ever i want with property i have bought without breaking the law such as copying my own dvds. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a particulr hate of mine as since i have bought the album, song or what ever, for my own personal use I would like to do what i want with it. DRM is often forced on the consumer without their knowledge or consent and has even at times exposed the user to security threat (Can anyone say Root Kit such as the Sony Scandal).
I encourage you to join, there is no cost to be a preliminary member
Move over Twitter, here comes flutter.
Find 140 characters on twitter too much. Good news because here comes flutter which limits entries to just 26 characters. And it will even seemlessly intergrate with your twitter, facebook and iPhone.
Oh and before you rush off to sign up. Its a joke.