You know, I really hadn’t given the MobileMe service from Apple much thought. Why? Honestly, its just one more thing to pay for that I will never use. Or will I? This guys story made me think twice about it.
An incredible stolen Mac story without a final chapter.
~dub
FaBidiot (FaceBook Idiot)
-noun
1. a FaceBook user who is too lazy to properly read your status/comment and therefore reacts/comments inappropriately
2. a FaceBook user who has a holy freakout when your comment on their status is off-topic
3. a FaceBook user who has always has to be right, even though they are incredibly wrong
4. a FaceBook user who posts comments to your wall under their kids profile, pretending to be them but reveals their true identity in a myriad of different ways
5. a FaceBook user that complains in their status but doesn’t want advice nor does anything to fix their problem(s)
6. a FaceBook user that always has to one-up your comment
7. a FaceBook user that tries to find hidden meaning in your comment rather than take it literally
8. a FaceBook user that has nothing better to do but take FB quizzes all day long
9. a FaceBook user that has a status such as “worried…” and ignores all queries as to why they feel that way
Looking for reasons why you should use in-private browsing mode? Let Dean Cain help you out!
Some frightening news is on the horizon. According to SORBS, the University of Queensland has terminated their hosting agreement.
From SORBS’ homepage:
It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent closure of SORBS. The University of Queensland have decided not to honor their agreement with myself and SORBS and terminate the hosting contract.
I have been involved with institutions such as Griffith University trying to arrange alternative hosting for SORBS, but as of 12 noon, 22nd June 2009 no hosting has been acquired and therefore I have been forced in to this announcement. SORBS is officially “For Sale” should anyone wish to purchase it as a going concern, but failing that and failing to find alternative hosting for a 42RU rack in the Brisbane area of Queensland Australia SORBS will be shutting down permanently in 28 days, on 20th July 2009 at 12 noon.
This announcement will be replicated on the main SORBS website at the earliest opportunity.
For information about the possible purchase of SORBS, the source code, data, hosts etc, I maybe contacted at michelle@sorbs.net, telephone +61 414 861 744.
For any hosting suggestions/provision, please be aware that the 42RU space is a requirement at the moment, and the service cannot be made into a smaller rackspace without a lot of new hardware, virtual hosting is just not possible. The SORBS service services over 30 billion DNS queries per day, and has a number of database servers with fast disk to cope with the requirements.
Thank you for all your support over the years,
Michelle Sullivan (Previously known as Matthew Sullivan)
Although it is difficult to speculate what kind of impact this will have against the war on SPAM it is certain that if SORBS does close it’s operations, their missing presence will be noticed.
Let’s hope that our baysian filtering will pick up the slack!
(as a side note, when did Michael Sullivan become Michelle?)
-boogybren
Although it may seem trivial, one of the things that I have always been grateful to my father for, is teaching me how to tie a tie. My dad taught me how to tie the “Full Windsor” knot and it has served me well for years. Now, unfortunately as the years have passed my neck size has managed to grow a bit. This has forced me to look at other ways to tie my existing regular length ties as the full windsor knot would leave little of the tail to attempt to thread through the tag on the tie. While I am sure it probably was not noticed by many others, it bothered me to now end feeling like I had just stepped out of a windstorm by the look of my tie. To my relief I decided one sunday morning a few weeks ago to give the old internet a try at finding a new way to tie my tie knot. I knew there had to be someone out there that had a page for this particular problem and I was right! I no longer had to feel embarrased to ask someone else how to tie a tie, fearing that they would look at me in disgust. Thinking all the while, “you are a grown man, how can you not know this?” Anyway, I digress. The point of this post is to show the website that I found to be very helpful and very good at showing me how to tie a tie.
Learn How to Tie a Tie – Learn how to tie a tie with the Windsor, Half Windsor, Four in Hand and Pratt tie knots by following colored diagrams from Tie-a-Tie.net!
I know that most of you out there won’t probably need this, but if you get in a pinch where you or someone else you know is in need of tie advice, this is the perfect place to go.
~dub
This is how the Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm intends to pay his 30 million SEK ($3.9M USD) back to the music industry.
Creative to say the least ;-)
http://www.blogpirate.org/2009/05/10/pirate-bay-founder-crafts-distributed-denial-of-dollars-attack/