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Wikipedia nonsense

21-Dec-09

* Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Crucifixion in art, you will be blocked from editing. –Tryptofish (talk) 01:54, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

* The addition of anime to a LOT of pages, whether through “In Popular Culture” additions or other spurious ways, is a key reason [...]

iiNet welcomes Conroy’s ISP filtering plans

16-Dec-09

iiNet “won’t introduce compulsory filtering unless required to do so by law” but are seemingly already prepared to fold to the welcomed, structured and disciplined approach to enhanced cyber safety…and bullshit everyone in the process.
Or…
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/329895/iinet_welcomes_conroy_isp_filtering_plans
iiNet has welcomed the Federal Government’s new cyber security plans – which include the introduction of mandatory ISP-level filtering — calling [...]

07-Dec-09

Report: Wikipedia losing volunteers
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10403467-93.html
Wikipedias insular culture imploding in on itself @ SA
“Dear Mersp222 I have deleted your photo detailing your fecal matter for a more accurate photo of my fecal matter, by which I feel will give Wikipedians a better understanding of the human waste” – Jim34
Wikipedia is nothing more than a sandbox for [...]

28/10/09

28-Oct-09

Between 1400 and 1600 A.D., the terms tadstoles, frogstooles, frogge stoles, tadstooles, tode stoles, toodys hatte, paddockstool, puddockstool, paddocstol, toadstoole, and paddockstooles sometimes were used synonymously with mushrom, mushrum, muscheron, mousheroms, mussheron, or musserouns.

Identi.ca and Twitter

13-Aug-09

Having a look at http://identi.ca/
I really have no prefference over one microblogging system or another, and with all the related and add-on services its more than easy to use one at a time.
Identi.ca has more real selling points though I think, Its OpenSource, its getting a lot more functionality and Im not being told about [...]

BBC’s RSS feed goes back in time!

01-Aug-09

When i checked my RSS feeds this moring I saw this exciting anomaly:
BBC News | Latest Published Stories | World Edition

I have refreshed the feed a few times…and its still there. Its 1914! exciting!
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/latest_published_stories/rss.xml

Change your FaceBook username as many times as you want.

25-Jul-09

“Choose your new username carefully. You can only change your username once.” Seems like that was a load of bullshit.

Click on Settings at the top-right corner of your Facebook page.
In the drop-down menu, click Account Settings
Look for the Username option in the list on that page and click Change
Type in a new name,
Press Check [...]

Install Adobe Air on Ubuntu

20-Jul-09

1. Download the Adobe Air installer file, just click the link:
http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/1.5/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
2. Save the file in the Home folder /home/your username
3. Open a terminal and run this command (just cut and paste them in):
$ chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

4. Now run this command:
$ sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

The Adobe Air installer will open, follow what is says to install it. It [...]

Twitter=My Playlist!

20-Jul-09

So my Twitter is just posting what I play now mainly. Im using Banshee MediaPlayer as it is awesome and not as FUCKEDUP as Amarok has become (Amarok2 is just horrible, I dont even know what the Playlists option is supposed to be doing….)
My previous blog post shows how it is done.
EDIT – Twitter should [...]

FaceBook = Blah!

19-Jul-09

Im over FaceBook, I will not use it anymore (except to feed my Playlist to…)
I believe its like some awful mediocre suburbs of the internet, a way to corral everyone into a boring, limiting, 1-flavour-for-all interaction shithole.
The above mentioned Playlist thing; What Im Playing to> FaceBook Status message, is currently working as such:
Banshee Mediaplayer scrobbles [...]

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