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Vacation from blog failure

No posting in allmost two weeks. The reason.. Well earned vacation. After returning I found out that Typepad had some major problems and thousands of blogs were down and some posts were lost. This is not the first problem the service have had. Looks that I have to find another service provider or at least get another blog.

Google Advance search and CC licenses

Link: Google Advance search.
Google has launched a search page where you can search for open content. Too bad it is only working only with english version only. Google advance search is available in Finnish too but it is lacking some features like the usage filtered search. This feature can limit the search to content that can be freely modified, adapted or built upon. Google doesn't mention Creative Commons but a search for "jpg" and all the hits have CC license.

Icon wars

Link: is.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object).

What happens when Messenger start a war with ICQ icon? -> You get an icon war with paint shooting rockets and norton zapping my computer. Funny as hell!

IRC gallery teenagers

Link: Putfile - am irk final.
Here is a classic. IRC gallery girls chrash into batchelor party. I didn't realize that IRC galleria was that popular among the Finnish teenagers. Its like my space in US.

Muropaketti gets 1gb out of their ATI GPU

Finnish Muropaketti.com boys managed to take their graphic chip to the limits. Good work guys =]

Noted Finnish over-clockers Sampsa Kurri and Ville Suvanto achieved graphics engine clocks of 1.003 GHz

I used to have watercooling in my home computer. Liquid nitrogen tank... mmmm.. Gotta have very cold computer. No really. I am happy to play the new Civ when it arrives next week with my lap top.

Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info:about:kitchensink - All Releases

I was installing new extensios to Firefox and found one no one can live with out: Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info:about:kitchensink - All Releases.

Sick and tired of users requesting that every feature but a kitchen sink be added to the Mozilla suite, some developers pondered, well why not add a kitchen sink to make our browser complete?

Blogger survey 2005

Would bloggers want pr-monkeys to send  product samples so they could write about them to their blogs?
Who do they prefer to talk if they want to know facts about a company?
What does a blogger do if she makes a mistake in a post?
How should a company react to misinformation in blogs?
Want to know the answers?
See the survey of 821 Technorati users. Link

A9 Instant Reward

Amazon is pushing its serch tool a9 by giving discounts to its users on Amazon.com. Active users get π/2% discount for their purchases. Amazon.com: What is the A9 Instant Reward?.

Sponsored links revenue — from the small text-based ads on A9.com and Amazon.com search results pages — will help offset costs we incur through the Instant Reward promotion. With our automatic π/2% Instant Reward, we are effectively sharing with you some of the money we collect from sponsored links, i.e. sharing the pi.

Mitnick talks about hacking and Paris Hilton

Link: CNN.com - A convicted hacker debunks some myths - Oct 7, 2005.
Kevin Mitnick is talking about his life after prison, his business and of course about hacking. He also explains how Paris Hiltons phone was accessed.

MITNICK: Well, how about Paris Hilton? She was attacked on her cell phone, and she was attacked two ways. One was because of a T-Mobile's Web site, and the other guy was able to compromise it by getting her phone number by going on T-Mobile's Web site, doing a password reset, which SMS-ed her new password because, presumably, only the owner would have the handset.

And then what they did was, they did a technique called caller ID spoofing, which allows a person to change the number they're calling from on their calling phone number display. So, they were posing as T-Mobile customer service, and they called her phone, and on the caller ID it showed as T-Mobile customer service, and then they told her, "There are some network difficulties. Have you been getting any SMS [messages] about a password reset, and what were the contents of the message?" and she freely gave it out, and that's how these guys were able to get to her T-Mobile Sidekick, and her e-mail, and whatnot.

The Long Now Foundation: library

Link: The Long Now Foundation: library.

Cingularity guy Ray Kurtzweil talks about the acceleration of innovation and technology growth. Forget about Moores law. When computers reach human brain level (cingularity) the computing exponential growth will continue. I have been reading Kurtzweils book and its facinating stuff. Ongoing growth just might lead to a situation where human is not the smartest life form on earth.