Category Archives: Technology

Google acquires Jaiku

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Wow - this should pretty well be the nail in Twitter's coffin. Google announces that they've acquired Jaiku (the web presence that I use). I'm curious to see if they have a direction, or it this is a portfolio pickup. Google's Blog *Editor's note: The reason I have never been on TWiT is because I make completely wrong statements like "this should pretty well be the nail in Twitter's coffin". Read more [...]

Follow-up – MPAA Story

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Apparently, the MPAA has "taken into account" the exact flaw that I described in my earlier post. They specifically asked study respondents how many of the movies they pirated would have been purchased (or viewed in theaters) if they could not have pirated them. Fear not, though...they're still a bunch of booger-heads. According to ArsTechnica, nobody has seen the survey. The press release was merely a collection of talking points, with none of the data revealed. Ars brings up two good points: You Read more [...]

Big Content probably full of crap again – nothing new here.

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Yesterday, one of the agents of "Big Content" (the MPAA) released the news that they had lost over six billion dollars in 2005, due to piracy worldwide. Yet again, they seem to be failing to take a number of factors into consideration. Let me say upfront that piracy is a real issue. I do not dispute that. I think Big Content is losing some real money here. But I also believe that they are overstating their case in an effort to make it easy for the politicians they've bought to get whatever shenanigan-laden Read more [...]

I’m an idiot…here’s proof.

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One of the neater functions of WordPress (the software I run khaosx on) is the ability to set the system up to recieve posts via email. Anything you see in the category "moblog" is something I posted via email. It's really easy: 1. Setup a mailbox 2. Set WordPress to look for email in the box. 3. Setup a cron job to run the page that looks for email. My cron job runs every 5 minutes, and uses a command line broswer (CURL) to process a script file that dumps the email into a post. Here's where Read more [...]

Is there a bank on the planet that understands how to do business?

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Netbank SUCKS. If you are even remotely contemplating opening an account with them - DON'T!!!!!!!!!! As previously mentioned here, in the past year they've managed to lose $4000 in deposits (yes, they managed to find them a few days later, but it cost me 12 hours of my life), and now this: I put in a wire transfer request yesterday morning at 07:44. At 15:00 yesterday, I called to see why it hadn't gone through. I was told "Yeah, we haven't worked on that yet. You need to verify the information." From Read more [...]