Calling CGIs from SSIs makes the web server choke on it’s lunch.
Calling CGIs from SSIs makes the web server choke on it’s lunch.
Calling CGIs from SSIs makes the web server….
I’m feeling a bit dumb at the moment, compounded by the fact that I’ve been meaning to make that process more efficient but hadn’t gotten around to it yet. Well, now I have. Thanks Bill, sorry for gumming everything up.
Over the past month or so I’ve been emailed about a dozen Nigerian scam letters. The first one freaked me out and I forwarded it to the FBI. But as more and more came, they became entertaining, sort of like the Rejuvenique Infomercial.
I just found The Spam Letters where these Nigerian money scams have helped create a very entertaining exchange. This site would make a great book. via Dog Door of Death
The Privatization of Our Culture A deliciously reactionary read. found on the always excellent Follow Me Here
Worthy thoughts made public are immediately beyond their thinker’s control. Free and open ideas survive, closed and restricted ideas accelerate their eventually disappearance. Sometimes quality will free an idea, but not always. Thoughts are as alive as the beings that have them, and judged by faster and more merciless evolutionary laws.
All the money and all the lawyers in the world can’t shove the genie back into the bottle.
I would spend much more time worrying about intellectual property issues if people would stop killing each other in the name of various gods. When/if the world settles down again I look forward to focusing on important things that seem otherwise trivial by comparison.
05:34:39 – Someone searches Google UK for images of “Blinking” and clicks the Sound of One Eye Blinking image.
08:28:47 – Someone searches Google Canada for images of ” blinking” and clicks the Sound of One Eye Blinking image.
10:19:30 – Someone searches Google Germany for images of “Sound” and clicks the Sound of One Eye Blinking image.
I really need to update that page…
The US may be sending military advisors to Georgia. So where is where is Georgia? On the southern border of Chechnya with ports on the Black Sea.
Chechnya is a mess.
Chechnya has been a mess for a long time.
Chechnya is full of oil.
This has the potential to get much uglier. US Troops are already in Saudi Arabia and Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan/Afghanistan, adding Georgia surrounds Iran on three sides. Iran is without a doubt the strategic linchpin of the Middle East, bordering on Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan, The Persian Gulf, The Caspian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. Even Saudi Arabia doesn’t control as much geographic importance or influence. If Iran is a target, and it seems that they are, moving troops to Georgia now has them surrounded on three sides.
Troops in Georgia would also likely open the Black Sea to US/NATO war and supply ships. These supplies could be moved by land across Geogia, placing them very close to the Caspian Sea. Tehran is basically sitting on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea is also full of oil.
The whole big mess is becoming more and more about oil, for the US and Russia. The world is running out of oil and there’s not much to replace it yet.
Hello to everyone clicking through from Zeldman’s Daily Report.
(I was wondering where the flood of hits was coming from)
The first line of this article states “The music industry’s worst nightmare may be coming true” but they think it’s CD burners and piracy. It’s actually much deeper, the music industry is obsolete.
I buy less CDs than I used to, but I’m usually not disappointed by them anymore. If I hear something I like, I’ll usually download most of the album to try it out. If I like it I buy it. Good music is earning sales while the junk is failing.
Most of my recent CD purchases been soundtracks or obscure small CDs and imports. Most of these don’t register with the RIAA, but none of the mainstream stuff appeals to me very much. Besides the obscure recordings I’ve been listening to music by friends (Gameface), small releases, and hand-labeled CDs of original music created in home studios.
Wilco’s soon to be latest album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot has been in my playlists a lot during the past five months, even though it hasn’t been released yet. During a dispute with their record company they posted a lo-fi version of the whole album on their website which I downloaded and saved. The album might finally get a packaged release this April and I plan to buy it.
When friends ask me about burning audio CDs with their computers I first tell them how to do it (on Macs it’s as easy as inserting a blank CD with iTunes open). Then I tell them to go to Radio Shack and buy a mini-stereo to RCA Y-adapter cable (#42-2483) and plug the computer into their stereos. Very few people burn more than one or two music CDs once they realize the convenience of MP3s. A lot of friends are buying iPods.
CDs are impractical and cumbersome. I have a shelf of 500+ CDs, all of which can fit onto one $200 portable harddrive as MP3s. CDs only play for about 45 minutes, with MP3s I can set up a playlist which won’t repeat for a month.
Piracy isn’t killing the RIAA, they’re killing themselves.
