Why is there no coverage?
So here’s a question that dances on my mind right now at 3:00am (not a debate just a question)…..all the major news sites have massive images of Saddam Hussein and his hanging; however, only a few have a little tiny place holder for the tragedy that has stuck in Madrid, Spain. I guess hangings are more important than the whole terror thing now? I’m sorta lost…can you help me out? Oh you know what…I know what it is…it didn’t get mainstream coverage because it was a terrorist attack by Basque separatist group Eta and not by some Islamic fanatic group. Ahh….the world makes sense once again…
For those of you who don’t know (which I assume are a lot of people) moments AFTER Saddam Hussein’s hanging a car bomb exploded at the Barajas airport in Madrid, Spain.
The ONLY news site that had it as a major headline was Al Jazzeera….and yes for those that didn’t know…it’s available in English.
Here are some screen shots:
New forum on the horizon?
Well in an effort to make this site more friendly I debating whether or not to merge the forum registration with the site registration. The advantage is one ID gives you access to both as opposed to two different logins right now.
The forum which is currently being used is by phpbb and the forum I’m thinking to move to is made by the one and only Fredrik.
Pros:
Single login
Easier to navigate
Cons:
No advanced features *yet* (file upload, etc..)
Single database (this could go both ways really)
So here I am….just a little torn between two thoughts….what do you think I should do? Should I integrate or should I keep it the way it is but just customize the design?
Chime in!
My Photoshop abilities one day….I hope!
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Vonage = SPAM?
So you’re probably thinking what the heck? Well let me tell you a little story….
I’ve had Vonage for a while (coming up to three years now) and I’ve been really happy with them. The only sucky thing was that I couldn’t use it like a land-line…but a little clever thinking overcame that quite easily. So recently I purchased another domain name for my family so we could stay in touch with each other and have the same e-mail and what not. Well I figured I might as well make the most of it and changed certain services that require e-mail addresses to go to specific e-mail accounts. (I got the idea from from RFC 2821 and RFC 2822 In simple language read the wiki.) So after doing this everything was nice because I had nicely setup rules and what not to sort the e-mail based on where the e-mail was sent. So all went well for a month or so and then recently BOOM! spam galore hits my Vonage e-mail address. I mean from cheap software retailers to the incredible weight-loss programs! So I figured okay maybe there might be a directory harvest attack and that’s how “they” got the e-mail addresses, but none of the other e-mail accounts were effected. The only e-mail address that receives SPAM is the Vonage account.
Now I’m not saying Vonage intentionally sends SPAM or sells the e-mail addresses, all I’m saying is that if no one else besides me, my e-mail server, and Vonage have this e-mail address then exactly where did it come from? I know I didn’t give it to any SPAMMERS. I know my e-mail server wasn’t harvested…so I guess that just leaves Vonage…but I’m pretty sure they didn’t purposely did do it.
Thinking of it more as I write this post there’s only one more thing I can possibly think of…and not to add fuel to the fire of outsourcing (which I have mixed feelings about mostly for) is India. So roughly three weeks ago my Vonage phone adapter went a little cookoo so I had to replace it. So now I could purchase one from Vonage or just pick one of the retail ones and activate it. So seeing that the retail route was the cheaper way to go, I went with the retail phone adapter. After purchasing the retail box I needed to call Vonage (which kind of sucks if you don’t have another phone to call from…kinda dumb…but that’s another story) to activate the retail box. So when I called them the call was routed to India and of they verified my information and asked for my account e-mail at which point I gave them. Now after this is the only instance that someone other than a computer and myself knows this e-mail address. A little far fetched…sure it might be because honestly I’m sure the Vonage representative has better things to do than sit and and write down customer’s e-mail addresses and then turn around and sell them.
Yeah I know it’s crazy….so I’m still a little puzzled as to how this happened…What do you guys think? Is it a conspiracy by the international workers against Americans 
? Or maybe there’s just a leak in the Vonage database? OR perhaps I just have way to much time on my hands to think of such things…:lol:
Happy Birthday!
Happy 21 bro!
Have you met Charlie?
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iPhone: January 2007
Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s official Apple’s iPhone will be coming out January 2007. According to some sources the phone will feature 2 separated batteries (one for the phone and one for the built-in mp3 player), 2 capacities – 4 and 8 gigs (priced at $249 and $449 respectively), flash memory, slide out keyboard, touchscreen on the outside.
Now I think we just need to correct the last one, not so much a touch screen…but more like a touch pad (I could be wrong)…the Apple trademark iPod wheel. Although there might be dozens of Photoshop creations, the only one that seems to be remotely close enough to share is this:
Now if you were to ask me personally on the authenticity of this….well I would say it looks pretty good…
Update it seems that the patents have been blogged about with photos:
Update: It appears that the patents have been made public and a prototype image has been released. More information can be found here:
http://www.myiphone.com/apple-iphone-patent-3068.php
mein Auto! BMW 335 mein! Das Auto ist mein!
Okay this is simply just awesome. I finally have some video of mein auto. So here enjoy a glimpse of what I shall hopefully purchase come next year…
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WP-Cache and Mobile Format
Interesting stuff…
It would appear that the plug-in WP-Cache doesn’t play well with the mobile formatting for my website because if someone visits my site from their mobile device then it caches that page. So then the next user who comes along, regardless of their browser, sees the mobile device formatting.
Well I will have this soon sorted out…DENiAL!!!!