FFEJWORLD:

Word Pirates: a site about rclaiming or removing misappropriated words. Words like “Pirated Music,” when was the last time you ran into some music that had been boarded looted, pillaged, raped, stabbed, shot, killed, beaten, robbed, burned, sodomized and thrown to the sharks?

with 3 more days to go in the month, i can (almost) honestly say i don’t have any regular readers, just regular search engines. jerry is back on top, if you don’t count bloglines or kototoi. rush presby st lukes med center has fallen off the charts, being replaced by uic med center, and two machines from national inst. health. i suppose i should add all the aol’s together. local search terms have moved to vanity searchs, with jen, elsa, (variations on hairball), (variations on kenneth), (variations on nat) and (variations on zafiro) taking the top. external searches are 17′ powerbook review and some variation on halloween and fashions. danny continues to lead in links to me, followed by mac net journal, ben and the reel jeff (thanks to all). and google still can’t find any page other then danny who links here….

A new release of Mozilla Firebird is availible, just ofr OS X: Firebird 0.7.1 get it. it’s much more spry and less buggy then the just released 0.7.

A new Apple security update for Panther is availible: Security Update 2003-10-28. Fixes a Java Quicktime vulnerability.

Wired has come to it’s senses: A Case Of Piracy Overkill? details the problems with the Digital Broadcast Flag, and what it means to you.

Beyond the Funnies: a history of comics in Canada. From the Canadian National library, in english and french, with entire issues of famous Canadian comics online! See the (incredibly awful) original issue of Cerebus The Aardvark! (man, was it awful!) and the first issue of Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman! plus a separate section on Guardian’s of the North. Amazing. Our Fscking LOC couldn’t do anything this hip–although the Smithsonian did publish an amazing book on comics, which I was lucky enough to read courtesy of the late Fred Levy…

Mac Net Journal and Gilmor weigh in on Proteron’s complaint that Apple swiped Cmd-Tab switching from them Gilmor has links to other (i recommend this one). I’ve used a beta of Liteswitch X, and liked it and recommend it to anyone trapped on Jaguar. But the feature wasn’t unique to them, they even cite windows in their product description. this isn’t a case of Apple swiping a product like they did when their Sherlock absconded with Watson’s functionality.

Groklaw on SCO’s response to IBM’s counterclaims–the GPL is illegal! excerpt:
“The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright, antitrust and export control laws, and IBM’s claims based thereon, or related thereto, are barred.” news.com article. The Register weighs in.

the feds attempt to search and destroy linked secrets on computers

mobile bloging aids:

winksite mobloging and mobil blog reading.

Blogstreeet blog ecosystem comprehensive tools to add RSS to your site, have updates mailed to you, check RSS, etc.

blog2mobile mobile blog reading.

rss2wml more mobile blog reading

The bulk of this post is under the “continue reading” link.

I’m going to be moving to a new format for the blog, moving neighborhood and personal stuff to a separate page, the articles to the front page, and adding a new collaboratively generated RSS news feed. I may remove all news from the blog page, I may not. I’m also going to make a final decision on leaving the comments, or putting up a Forum/BBS system. I’m also going to change the layout of the pages, such as moving the various galleries to their own page as well as attempting to improve spelling and capitalization. Figure on two weeks or so to the first visible sign of the new FFEJWORLD.

A little bit of thinking out loud here. Criticism of the blogosphere consists of charges of replication and oomphaloskepsis. oddly enough the criticism rarely deals with the conversational aspects, of blog space, the use of it as a “new vaudeville” for writers to develope in, or the personal publishing aspects. Except to piss on the notion of every idiot having it’s own soapbox. It centers on the cut and paste “Me too” nature, and the use of links to increase hits. This blog has been a major failure in all regards. Time and bandwidth constraints keep me from from writing my own thoughts all the time, and leave me to cutting and pasting, or leaving out important news. Summarizing in a concise paragraph why the broadcast flag is bad, for example, is beyond my limited skills in the few minutes i have to get a post online Then there’s the age old failure of not knowing your audience, or catering to it. I’m not a good writer, the bulk of the page’s readers aren’t interested in what I chose to blog about. So I’m going to branch out with longer pieces, more in line with what i want to write about. Maybe I’ll finally grow some literature. we shall see.

My iBook is also showing signs of not making it through the winter if I keep dragging it around. The battery is now discharging 30% in my bag over three hours, which gives me less then 45 minutes of use between charges.This after i moved back to the heavier backpack with the insulated padded slot, and started tying the laptop shut. The power adapter is borderline, i shredded the laptop end a few months ago hooking my foot in the power cord. These aren’t criticisms of the iBook, it;’s held up amazingly well to some real torture, I doubt any other laptop would have held up to the kind of abuse.

As for using the blog as a form of annotated bookmarks, forget about it. the blog is online, and I’m mostly offline. I may load a version of it locally after I get Panther. I may just start using ProjectBuilder or some knowledge management software, like Notepad, Sbook5, or Tinderbox.

I’m also tired of page slaping people. Using the page as a journal/newsletter has been a total washout. The people i’d expect to read it don’t, and I’m tired of hearing offline “! didn’t tell you or call you or write you about blah blah because you would have bloged it for everyone to read. So I’ll have to move back to increased cellphone usage and more mass mailings. Whoopee.

Finally, it’s been an autumn of changes all around me, and I’m bored with the way this thing is now. I’m also bored with being homeless, unemployed and depressed. I haven’t gotten any art done, increasingly i don’t feel like taking the camera out of my pocket, let alone charging it. Taking on a new look for the page will be good self therepy, as well as something productive to do while I wait to drop dead.

Onward.

Yesterday I performed an amazing feat of sys admining. In three hours, I removed over 184 virii, trojans, trackers, servers, Internet Explorer content bars, worms, and other malware as well as patching and repairing Java, Windows 2k, Norton, the hard drive and the drivers. In Korean.

Damn i’m good.
Continue reading ’spam and the man and a new plan’

THE 18th STREET PILSEN OPEN STUDIOS TOUR!
Oct 35-26 11am-7pm starts at the APO building, 1436-40 w. 18th
Maps at the cafe’s (we recomend the Jumping Bean)

the real pilsen, real artists. real cool. (wish i had a poster, the work on it is nice, artists with chops, instead of mission statements.)

maryland democrats fear electronic voting machine fraud. gilmore reports on civilo dissobediance keeping the damning diebold memos online. the guardian is scared (pay for view, but read the blurb). i’m scared.check out blackbox. selected diebold memos”

If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.”
source: http://why-war.com/memos/s/lists/support.w3archiv e/200009/msg00109.html

“I need some answers! Our department is being audited by the County. I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 when it was uploaded. Will someone please explain this so that I have the information to give the auditor instead of standing here “looking dumb”.”
source: http://why-war.com/memos/s/lists/support.w3archiv e/200101/msg00068.html

“Johnson County, KS will be doing Central Count for their mail in ballots. They will also be processing these ballots in advance of the closing of polls on election day. They would like to log into the Audit Log an entry for Previewing any Election Total Reports. They need this, to prove to the media, as well as, any candidates & lawyers, that they did not view or print any Election Results before the Polls closed. ***However, if there is a way that we can disable the reporting functionality, that would be even better.***” (emphasis added)
source: http://why-war.com/memos/s/lists/rcr.w3archive/20 0202/msg00051.html

THE WORLD OF APPLE

the wall street journal’s pogue, mossberg and pogue rave about Mac OS X 10.3. secure and virus free feature laden, including a few copied from XP. (ok, one pogue is a newsletter post).

apple has quietly updated the add on MPEG-2 component for quicktime 6.4. use software update if you have final cut 4, get it from the apple store otherwise…

natalie’s iBook drive crossed the mystical 87.5% line, and she can’t see DVD’s now. sound familar?

clarification: the New G4 iBooks have the same exact keyboard and case design as the previous models, and this is a good thing, as witness the almost three year old iBook i’m typing this on. the design is amazingly sturdy, this machine has suffered drops, throws, ice tea, and a flood. and keeps on going. i do prefer the 12″ powerbook keyboard, well, prefer isn’t the word, love is. and i’m annoyed that they have changed the video output dongles (again). but if i had the money, i’d have the new iBook.

and i just met someone who bought the 14″….

Apple anounced new G4 based ibooks today, replacing the G3’s.. My first reactions was, oh cool. My second was “huh?” they’re selling three new models a 12″ 800mhz, a 14″ at 933 and another 14 at 1.0ghz.

why? the 14″ units haven’t been selling. I know of one person who has bought one, and i’ve seen 3 out in public. Compare that to the hordes of 12″ models i see every other day. and why even bother selling aa 933mhz model? 70 whole mhz less then the gigahertz model. It’d make more sense to sell a 800 and 1.0ghz 12″.

no L3 cache. oh well. the original 12″ powerbook didn’t have it either. still has the ludicrous 600meg memory cap. still can’t drive a second monitor, except as a mirror. and they made the cdrom slot loading. but all models come with the dvdrom combo drive, so they all have cd burning capability.

there’s also a configuration contradiction buried in the fine print of the specs page about whether the optional airport extreme card is really an airport extreme card. i can’t tell if they got rid of the flapping keyboard, or if the top deck is still metal.

the base sticker price for the 800mhz 12″ is $1100, the base for the 14″ is $1300. figure another 150 for ram to get it to 600megs, and whatever they want for for the airport card. which is still is cheaper then the last 900mhz G3 Ibook, stripped.

in all honesty, i’m viewing this at cell phone speed with not all the images loading, so i shouldn’t jump to conclusions just yet. if they got rid of the flapping keyboard i’d give it a definant must have. as it stands, it could be just what every student discount user needs to run Final Cut 4 and Logic.

which begs the question, why weren’t these ready for back to school?

various websites report that OS X 10.3 has been shipped early.

What’s radical about the weblog form of journalism: “10.) Journalism traditionally assumes that democracy is what we have, information is what we seek. Whereas in the weblog world, information is what we have—it’s all around us—and democracy is what we seek” .

How to save the world. A very cool blog. Even has pigs for oakey to drool over.

PIG ROAST THIS SUNDAY 3PM

mozilla 1.5 is out, as well as a new pre-release of firebird. i initially had some trouble with the new moz, but resolved by an ancient expedient. i logged out and logged back in. voila. new faster mozilla. the new beasts are better on OS X then the last batch, but as per usual, they scream on intel boxen. one thing mozilla does better then any other browser is multiple pipelined page requests. open a bunch of pages in a bunch o tabs and watch how fast they come up. amazing, but then your milage may vary.. free download, or buy the cd for a measly $3.95 plus shipping and handling from the Mozilla foundation.

huge Apple news. new firmware for the D-link USB dongle, new software and accessories for the new dockable ipods, including voice recording and photo storage. wonder if rachal got hers…i keep banging on the browser button but there isn’t any picture of the belkin photo media reader anywhere…

there’s evil then there’s evil. fraankly you don’t care, so fuck it.