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June 2nd, 2004 Leave the country for two weeks, and you are a month behind. Here is a silly picture of me in Pécs. |
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June 8th, 2004 I agree with only a tiny portion of the content presented in these Essays on Alternative Living, but exposure to new ideas can never hurt. |
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June 11th, 2004 I was reading a web comic, Ubersoft Pirate Act, and thought that this could not be true. But sadly the Pirate Act is all too real. When and where will the insanity stop? Now we are not only sticking it to our traditional rights, we are now opening sucking chest wounds in our legal rights too. The whole expanse of copyright expansion flies in the face of our Constitution and this act would only further expand the wrongs caused by congress. You think the Patriot Act is bad, just think about introducing double jeporady! Seriously, this must stop, or our culture, or freedom, and our society will perish. |
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June 15th, 2004 My father-in-law sent me an email a while back. The email was about What can't you find on Google?. I find this article particularly poignant based on the two posts I had including Google in the Random Mumblings April Archive. Could Google really pull off the greatest devolution in computing histroy... a central computer that every web user runs processes on? I also decided that I need to keep learning or die. So yesterday I learned about Namespaces, the ASP .NET Page Events: Order and PostBack, and Using the ASP.NET Repeater Control in addition to creating my first simple ASP .NET Server Control. |
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June 16th, 2004 Bam! And ANOTHER article confirms it. How Microsoft Lost the API War, from Joel on Software, a very respectable, and respected source, points the way to Web Based Applications. I honestly can hardly wait. And remember, you heard it here early. (Just read yesterday's post.) |
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June 22nd, 2004 I'm a bit of an Architecture buff. So I found the Eurobad Site, a tiny bit interesting. Although I personally could never consider sharing a kitchen with a horse, or a bathroom with so rowdy a child, but the futuristic fixtures and open spaces make this bathroom appealing. |
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June 24th, 2004 Movie Industry Gets Taste of Own Medicine. This is what happens when you go around paying congress to legislate everything, they turn the legislation against you. This is what happens when you ram rights suppression technology down consumers' throats. This is what happens when you believe that you are, and should be, above the law. RIAA Claims Music On Car Radios Meant Only For Original Vehicle Owner. Strangely enough this isn't true. From the Congress is too stupid NOT to be voted out file: Senate bill bans P2P networks. If these guys had been in office at the time Mcikey Mouse would never have been around for Disney to get so draconian over. Another article claiming Web is Next Generation Development Platform. I wanted to comment on the yesterday, but I got busy. The following are cooking directions from a Marie Callender's Frozen Meal.
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June 30th, 2004 You win some, You loose some. In the first case our Fair Use Rights are confirmed, although if Mattel pays Congress enough, I'm sure that this too will become illegal. In the second case our Free Speech rights are affirmed, but this is a loss. Why? Because the real winners are the porn producers who lobby the government to maintain their lucrative business. This ruling really only affirms that even the Court can be bought. When Eldred asked the Court to stand up against the abrigement of ALL citizen's Free Speech rites, they balked. What a sick society we live in when someone writing a children's book cannot reference great works of the previous generation, but porn sites do not have to take any steps to protect children. I'll also note that I predicted this, although in jest, just about eight years ago. Just ask Wes, or was it his idea, and I agreed with it... anyway, we were BRILLIANT in Highschool. |