If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve noticed the random quotes at the bottom of my posts. Problem is, I don’t have nearly enough of them. This is where you guys come in.

If you have any funny quotes that you can think of, please, either leave them in the comments section or email them to me. Email addy is in the right sidebar.

C’mon, do your worst!

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Things that make you go hhmmm…...

I really like reading my november as Jamie always presents nice, clean arguments and points supported with facts. Whether you agree with him or not, he always brings interesting perspectives to the issues he discusses (a warning, though, if you debates with him, be ready for long comments with lots of references

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GeekGrrl beat me to this story, but I feel it’s worth propogating.

Even though there’s been quite a few cheap shots taken at our neighbors up north, I think that we need to show our appreciation for their support.

Have you hugged a Canuck today?

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[Link courtest of nothing really important.]

I never really got into pen and paper role-playing. I mean, I gave it a few shots, but it just never drew me in (mainly because of bad DM’ing skills). This, coupled with the fact that by the time I really got into role-playing, much of the RPG world had gone console or PC based.

This is how I envision a D&D night to go, though.

Perhaps I’ll get into it since Remy has been talking about it lately.

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I was watching Frontline on PBS yesterday. They were airing a very good piece showing the history behind this Iraq situation. You can also follow the archive links on that page which provide more in depth information on the history between the US and Iraq.

There was a lot of information presented that I didn’t know and that I feel protesters both young and old should see before they picket. It definitely helped re-affirm my belief in the war.

On a sidenote, how weird is it that PBS is offering news coverage on the war?

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This was buried in my comments section but I felt it was worth bringing up to the front page.

Many of you remember bit I posted about state-led mini-DMCA’s, but it looks like Richard did a bit more homework about what is affected by this. Give it a read and ask yourself: “is this something I want to REALLY happen?” If the answer to that question is no, then I beg you to contact your state governement and even your federal representatives to let them know you’re against this.

I can’t stress how important it is that these bills be shot down in flames so large that every representative for a hundred years will know the public’s opinion about the MPAA and RIAA telling us what our rights are!

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I’m working on moving my Now Playing section to BlogAmp. Switched.

I’m currently using the Do Something plugin to send a ping to a category, which is included in my sidebar template. Got BlogAmp working.

While (Do Something) this is extremely creative, it has the big drawlback of denying my the ability to email me when someone does a trackback.

I would really like to get some sort of mouse over working to display more song information like the author’s homepage. If anyone could give me a hand with it, feel free to email or IM me.

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Doth my eyes decieve me?!? The little counter at the bottom of my page reads over 1,000 visits!

Keep in mind that these hits are only for this month! You like me! You *really* like me!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled drivel.

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[EDIT: also covered here]

According to this article on Freedom to Tinker, there are several bills in several states that will seek to make things like network encryption, firewalling and anything that masks communications between you, your ISP and the rest of the world.

Basically these bills will “ban the possession, sale, or use of technologies that “conceal from a communication service provider … the existence or place of origin or destination of any communication”. Your ISP is a communcation service provider, so anything that concealed the origin or destination of any communication from your ISP would be illegal — with no exceptions.”-Freedom to Tinker. No suprise here that these bills are being backed by the MPAA and the RIAA.

This wil include NAT routers/firewalls, Windows Internet Connection Sharing, any sort of encryption that masks the source and destination of transmissions, etc.

I hope we can all see the ramifications of these bills being passed. Not only will this damage the global internet, setting it back decades, it will also crumble what’s left of the IT industry. No longer will be be able to share connections through routers. We will all have to lease multiple (probably static) IP addresses from our ISP’s, drastically rasing internet access pricing.

Oh, and forget about security. Any company hoping to secure internet communications is just out of luck. Things like proxy servers wouldn’t be allowed as they prevent the origin of communication from being determined. The same with internet and email encryption. Initiatives and programs such as wireless, ssh and all encryption algorithms would instantly die.

Please, I urge you to call your representative to ensure that bills such as this are not being planned in your state. If you’re unfortunated enough to live in a state considering these bills, I strongly encourage you to contact your representatives to let them know you oppose this bill.

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Those of us using Mozilla as our default browsers are very familiar with problems relating to downloading certain content. More often it’s .wmv or .asf files being interpereted as .txt files and being shown in the browser window instead of being opened with the default application.

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