Basement progress is slow, but I’ve enjoyed the first two days of my vacation.
There is so much drywall dust it’s amazing – I’ve vacuumed, and swept no less than 4 times, and still there is a coat of dust on the floor.
We’ve got the paint, did some shopping today and picked out the tile, carpet, and maybe some cabinets. Got the plastic and some painters tape, and tomorrow the real fun starts.
The EFF has launched their latest campaign, in support of bloggers’ rights.
Follow the link to see the rights you should have, and how the EFF is fighting to defend your rights every day.
Like many other sites, including BoingBoing, I’ve added a badge to the right in support of the EFF and their efforts.
Join the EFF – they’re even offering a discount off their member rate. It’s tax deductible, and one of the best non-profits you can donate too. I’ve been a Pioneer member going on 4 years now.
Defend your rights before it’s too late. They need your support.
I don’t understand the black out rules around NFL’s Sunday Ticket on DirecTV.
Last week, the Packers the play the Steelers at 3:15 on CBS. CBS stays long on the Raiders / Chiefs, so I flip to the Sunday ticket channel for the Packer game. No go, it’s blacked out, as it usually is when broadcast on the local station.
While I appreciate CBS for staying with the hot game, I was annoyed that I couldn’t see the game I wanted to see, when I supposedly pay for “all” the games.
Yesterday, the Packers are at the Falcons, 3:15 on Fox. The Vikings are the noon game, and are going long. I switch to the Sunday ticket channel, assuming the Redskins / Buccaneers game is the game of the week at 3:15, and watch the Packer game on Sunday ticket. At halftime, the signal is disconnected. Sure enough, the Packer game is on the local Fox affiliate.
So why one week do I get the game and one week I don’t? Is it up to Fox and CBS to determine when DirecTV puts the blackout in effect? Worked out for me yesterday, but still annoying.
And… we’re back.
Not that this hasn’t already posted everywhere on the intraweb right now, but is still very cool. Someone with way too much time on their hands has transcoded all 6 Star Wars movies and is watching them simultaneously and noting all the similarities.
Some are to say, at the least, quite interesting parallels in some of the movies, just from a time perspective.
Work’s been kicking my ass, and I’m traveling this week – blogging will resume soon.
Zoe really liked her costume, she went as a mouse this year. She and Alex, who went as a vampire, made sure to get lots of candy:
Donna Wentworth gives you an overview of how Blizzard is spying on you.
If this was the government, as the article points out, they’d have to get a warrant.
What’s even more distrurbing to me, is the blog comments on this article – the gamers just don’t care if it stops cheating. This is right up there with those who say “I have nothing to hide, let the government videotape/phonetap/etc”.
Where do personal rights start and end? Just because you click on a EULA, does it really give a software company the right to capture what programs you’re running, who and what you’re communicating over instant messenger, and what websites you’ve visited?
Ubuntu Blog has one of the most useful tips yet: How to mount a remote filesystem using SSH.
This is going to be big for me: I can mount my different webservers, hack my Terrastation and mount that using SSH, and all my other boxen.
Why use GNOME-VFS now? SSH is much more stable.
Thanks Ubuntu Blog!
I’ve received a number of questions over the years of where the name “Silwenae” came from. It was randomly generated in Everquest – the second name I chose within EQ. It was unique enough that I stuck with it, including registering 3 domains. (And for the record, it’s pronounced sill-win-ay).
CmdrTaco, co-founder of , has written an op-ed piece on Slashdot on how Blizzard made him change his name due to the use of “Cmdr”, a title, in his World of Warcraft name, and how it’s affected him.
Online persona’s are interesting – there is a lack of accountability in using a handle for your pixels. There’s safety in anonymity. It wasn’t until recently I even put my real name on my blog – not out of safety, but out of privacy. (Though smart interweb people just look at Internic to see who owns a domain, and I’ve never faked that). I grew up on BBS’s, and using popular characters from books I liked – and I see that trend every day online (how many Drizzt’s did you see back in the EQ days?)
What does an online handle mean to you?
