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I'm watching this:
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The first speaker after the chair was Representative Cliff Stearns. He goes on and on and is wrong, wrong, wrong. Guess who's paying his way in DC?
Here comes Fred Upton. Guess where his money comes from?
Here is Mike Ferguson His top donors?
His argument is that piracy, read bit-torrent traffic devastates the internet; and yet, check this out.
John Shimkus?
From what I hear so far, it's a three hour hearing, these shills for the telcos are full of it. They want content creators to pay for the privilege of residing on their networks. It's the same as saying that only Lamborghini's will be allowed to drive on surface streets. That's great if you can afford a Gallardo; unfortunately, that's going to make we mere mortals unable to play. This is how the ISP's want it. I think the chairman of the hearing has it right on the money that there are so many red herrings in this debate you could fill an aquarium.
Please write your representative and tell them to support network neutrality

 
Here is another place, saying it better than I can…

Another success for DD-WRT! I just revived my cousin's old v2. I had to flash it twice, once with the mini to get passed the usual Linksys crap, and then up to the full v23 with dd-wrt. Fun. Now what to do with it? I haven't quite decided yet. I've got an Airport Express that does pretty well on one side of the house; so I guess I'll put this one in the wire closet for the back yard. That is, unless I give my cousin back his now working router, even though he was going to throw his away. Oh well. I have a Buffalo router that needs the dd-wrt treatment in case I do the right thing.

So I've been playing around with Movable Type 4 again. It's a bit frustrating. I think my problems are with specifying the proper paths. The documentation is lacking, or I'm an idiot. Either way, I keep getting 500 errors whenever I try to publish anything other than the index pages. Scouring through the error logs, I can see that the wrong url is supplied despite my best efforts to figure out what and where mt wants to point. Once I figure it out, I'll put the rest of the pages up.

I'm probably using a one-hundredth of the features of Quicksilver; but, Apple is going to buy this guy's software and incorporate it into 10.6 at the latest, right?! Turns out I can't live without this software! It's truly inspiring work. Check out this rare appearance by the developer:

Well it had to happen sometime.
I looks like there is a trojan (properly named) out there in the wild. It only seems to affect patrons of porn sites. It goes like this: you want to look at a video and you are asked to download the proper codec. You say 'yes' and download an installer that mounts itself and asks for your password. You give the password and it changes your dns settings and sends you on a wild ride around the internet. Oh yeah, it also sends itself to people on your buddy list in iChat or AOL. Fun.

Symantec is calling this a 'worm'. Although it displays worm-like behavior once it's installed, you have to grant it the privilege of running on your machine; and that, my friends, is a trojan. Whatever the name, everyone should know better than to download and install things from untrusted sources.

I can see where this exploit could confuse people. If the trojan called itself Adobe Flash, few people would think to go to Adobe's site, to see if they had the latest version of Flash and get it from there. Instead people might have heard of Flash so they'd be tempted to install it. This is dangerous.

I've sent out warnings to my clients so that they understand that part of what I do is keeping them current, or at least one generation behind cutting edge, anyway. Hopefully, they'll trust me and not do something stupid.

At any rate, Windows users can rejoice that some Mac users who live with a false sense of security are now actually being targeted. I just want to make sure that everyone who knows me and uses Macs, knows to be more careful and smart enough to know that no system of ones and zeros can ever be completely safe.

Tomorrow we are sending Jake to a higher karma. He's suffering. I wish he'd get better; but, its unreasonable to think that he will. He was a faithful companion for fourteen years.
So long ago, Tammy and I were supposed to meet at the Cup and Chaucer at the Oxford Book Store in Altanta. So, I'm in the coffee shop and Tam walks in with this adorable little black puppy, so small he fit into the palm of my hand. Loud enough for all to hear, she asks me if we can keep him. You could hear a pin drop. Of course I said yes. He stayed with Tam in Atlanta, moved to Augusta, Charlotte, Gainesville, Asheville, and back to Augusta. He's been all over the place!
It's only been these past two weeks that he started to rapidly decline. He was already losing his sight and hearing; now he can't get around on his own. It seems that it is time. I hate it; but, it must be done.

So, it's Apple day. New iPod Touch, redesigned iPod Nanos', two-hundred dollar price drop for the iPhone; now maybe I can get one. It would be none too soon as the screen on my RAZR is now dead. Unfortunately, there was a quiet, albeit rumored, exit of the iPod HiFi. I had the pleasure of using one for the summer at GHP. It was LOUD; without sounding like crap. I was in it for the speakers; not the Dock. Maybe I'll find one on eBay. I'm not particularly worried about it; though I had hoped they would've updated it rather than send it to the trash. Oh well.

So, here's Tess with Sir Topham Hatt.

So, my blog is becoming the obituaries…
Mr. Wizard, Don Herbert became unstuck in time today. He was 89. I found him on Nickelodeon when I was a kid.
LA Times obit.