At the time and date of this Blog, The Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran is transmitting on 13.375, which is one of the Lincolnshire Poachers regular spots....hmmmmmmmmmm.

Mobile Photography

High-quality telephones are only half the story. The DoCoMo store also featured a range of more specialized mobile Internet appliances. The two examples shown here are intended for mobile photography. Camessepetit and Eggy both let users snap photos, which they can then decorate with cartoonish overlays and transmit to others who are using similar devices or regular i-mode telephones. Camessepetit (left) and Eggy (right) mobile photography products from DoCoMo Camessepetit is clearly intended for children, and I applaud DoCoMo for shipping simplified mobile products for this demanding user population. Eggy also does digital movies but seems more nerdy. How can I apply the term "nerdy" to a product named "Eggy"? Well, anything with buttons labeled mode, menu, and shift definitely has nerdy tendencies, regardless of what it's called. Maybe DoCoMo should have applied a little more usability to Eggy before it was released. Well well wellie well well!! How long do you think that we will have to wait for these incredibly beautiful useful and fun phonez to reach our shores? probably never is the answer, and that my friends, SUCKS.

The report of the Demise of The Buzzer was premature; we check the buzzer every day, and the day that we thought it had gone west, it actually became audible extremely late in the day. This may have been to the coronal mass ejections / sunsopots that have been blasting the earth this month. Normally, we can start to hear The Buzzer late in the afternoon, but that day, it started to become barely audible at around 7ish, which is *really* late. As soon as we heard the Buzzer in its normal place, we n00ked the post, which accounts for the blotting out...

Laziness is one of themost powerful energies in the universe. Closely related to entropy, laziness is like heroin/morphine/percocet addiction. Its ssooooooooooo good, so enveloping, warm comfortable and reassuring, that once you have to give it up, its like being one of the living dead. Like chemical drug addiction, the Rich can afford to feed their laziness habbit. They can swan around "stoned" all day, drinking coffe, excersising, watching Dragonball Z, screwing, what-ever. And as it is with chemical addiction (coke), the "old money" Rich mind set can live with laziness, and are not destryoed by it; just look at all the pop stars / lottery winners who get rich quick, stop working, and then die because they get "bored". Yes dear friends, if you can, choose laziness, "Ne travaillez jamais" they said in '68 (aparently). Words to live by....

The draconian-sounding Italian law about people running websites needing to join the Italian equivalent of the NUJ, have a "responsible editor" etc. became law on the 5th or April. I've been following rants about it but don't think I understand what it really amounts to. Broadly speaking, it seems to be in line with other Italian legislation in that it can't possibly mean what it appears to, but if the authorities decide they don't like you they can probably use it to put you in prison for ever. I read a Q&A with one of the supporters of the law which read a lot like HO stuff here about why RIPA isn't scary. Does everyone with a website need to register? No, of course not, that would be silly. So who, then? People who run online newspapers. How do you know if you run an online newspaper? If you make information available to the general public. So, any web page? No, only if you update it regularly. etc. etc. This is from memory. I certainly didn't come away with a clear idea of whether my "recreational maths books" web page would be an online newspaper if I updated it every time I bought or read a recreational maths book. Some of the people who are worried about the law claim that you can theoretically get a life sentence for breaking it (because anonymous publishing is very very illegal in Italy). Mind you, Italy has some odd laws. It's illegal to be rude about foreign heads of state. Note that as the Vatican is a foreign country this would make it illegal to be rude about the Pope. Hmm.

"violent style " - now were talking! cheers

as a new england conservatory alum i congratulate you on going that route. there's no richer road but beware the temptress of fame et al. it can corrupt wildly and YOU can get lost in the process quite easly. it's taken me 4 years to get my creative self back. the group favors the median. good luck.....i'm sure your head is screwed on right already though as you probably wonldn't be posting here if it weren't. sculpting? new face lift for jonas

actually it's ie5.5 but who's counting :). btw:sbs2000 is like chewing rocks. i had just made a 500$ support call to ms and found out that almost the entire first shipment of sbs2000 was sent out with the wrong keycodes! now that's corporate caring....to make matters worse the entire install will run and ONLY THEN will you be notified that the incorrect key was entered. i can't believe this sh@tty product. shame on them. it'll eat up all your nntp, smtp and tcp/ip as well during this install. wish i didn't have to work with this sh@t but you gotta pay if you want to play.

Somebody forgot to tell Alcatel that the Track Changes feature of Microsoft Word is a dangerous thing to use when you plan to make the document available online and the publisher of said document doesn't have a clue about how to merge the changes in permanently prior to making it publicly available for all to see. With all of their commentary intact, the document was made available online, and is somewhat enlightening to those that really believe that these companies care about customers. Check out the entirety of Alcatel's classic PR move.

GNUPGP may compile on OSX before the {N}etwork {S} {A}ssociates get round to porting PGP...keep an eye out for it. http://www.linuxppc.org/software/index/gpgp.html Mozilla This is shaping up to be the only viable alternative to IE5/World subjugation. That was issue 14 btw.

Were really looking forward to trying OSX; we can run all of our legacy Mac apps, and all of the new naitive stuff in a robust and utterly kewl environment. Linux may well be made redundant by OSX, since it does now what Linux will do in another five years.; appeal to the dummies as well as the 3|337. *nix dudez. (and people who need to run ATM) :] did you write that post in IE for OSX? Or is that not out yet?? It will be a toatl scream to read the millions of posts from the LaMeRs about how they trashed their systems cuz they were logged in as w007 when they were "practicing that horrible command line stuff".

so sorry to tell everone this but Joey Ramone has passed on. a loss for all of us.

i am normal-i am clean i'm not frightened-i won't scream

Try these leet codes for your Nokia fone: this one will switch your fone to "Enhanched Full rate codec". *3370# EFR will be activated after a reboot of the phone ( consumes more power ) #3370# EFR will be switched off after a reboot of the phone.

7 hours bound in the cords of love love and betrayal go hand in glove... the chance is lost. upgrade woes? at work today a botched install on one of their nt4 mail machines ate the exchange records for over three hundred users. via the backup all was saved all be it for my nerves and the lack of food in my system. unfortunate for me i had to deal with a horrible os but it's not my choice of platforms. also thru this trying situation ip was taken away and the raid controller stopped functioning.....needless to say i can relate. nothing like running a ms network except the steady drip of never ending water torture. also here in the us...northpoint(line supplier) filed chap 11 and cut their service......:without notice from their wonderful isp no web-no mail et al. i had heard that 100,000 accounts were dropped point blank and again without notice. comcast(cable) and verizon(pstn) are scrambling to further their already controlling grasp on the communications industry in the mid-atlantic states. sad. by money...b(u)y freedom. hey home user you want vpn? take that cable modem at 40$ per month and up it to 90$. what else is included in this price? nothing! just an open port for pptp. again.. ...sad. can someone say "anti-trust"?

Yesterday, tried to upgrade from Mozilla 17 to Mozilla .8, and when untarred the package, the sytem got hosed. x refused to start. Took the opportunity to n00k� the installation and then upgrade to mandrake 7.2, this time without KDE (220meg) and a whole bunch of other stuff, like enlightenment. Couldnt do the upgrade the "right way�"; the mandrake 7.2 installer has a broken part in it; if it detects that you dont have enough space to upgrade, it gets stuck in a loop with an error dialogue. Have limited space on this drive (1.5gig); need an 8 gig drive to do a less restriced install..then again, its "good practice�" (in both ways) to choose and install each package individually. These Linux installers are getting better and better. Next, going to give Debian another try, either progeny or the "real thing�". The potato 2.2 installer failed to create a /dev/mouse and frankly, "we need to work!�"

ye link below doth not work!

check these instead, they rawk! "Anti-Census Fever Running Wild" "The Most Dangerous Site on the Internet" 48% of Americans said "privacy concerns" made them less likely to answer all the questions on the long form privacy international Predictably there is nothing (to be found on Google) about anti census activity related to the UK. If you find some, post it!

Australian Jedi

UPDATED: that link is busted: try the ones above

Scopeware This is something VERY interesting; read the essays by David Gerlerntner about information represented in streams, and then try it out!

X-Envelope-From: ?????@?????? From: "Simon" ?????@??????> To: Subject: Fw: Jedi Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 23:44:54 +0100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-Envelope-To: irdial@irdialsys.win-uk.net You may have already seen this. . . ----- Original Message ----- From: ?????@?????? To: *********** Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 3:31 PM Subject: Jedi As some of you may know there is a census coming around on Sunday April 29 2001 For those who don't know, a census is where the government collates general information about it's residents (number of people living in your house, religion, etc) Apparently, if there are enough people in Great Britain, who put down a religion that isn't mentioned on the census form it becomes a fully recognised and legal religion. It usually takes about 10,000 people to nominate the same religion. It is for this reason that it has been suggested that anyone who does not have a dominant religion to put "Jedi" as their religion. Send this on to all your friends and tell them to put down "Jedi" on their census form. And remember ......If you are a member of the Jedi religion then you are by default a 'Jedi Knight'. So If this has been your dream since you were 4 years old.... Do it cos you love Star Wars, If not........... then just do it to annoy people. "May the Force be with you!"