I found managing a Wordpress blog, a Tumblr blog and a Twitter account a bit too much.
I’m going back to just be using my Wordpress blog and my Twitter account to share.
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Hey hey, blackface minstrels are not funny any more.
I would assume most of you now have heard about the ‘Hey hey it’s Saturday - Red Face’ skit that has created a debate about if the blackface minstrel is racist or not. I would assume most of you have read some of the articles about the incident and how Harry Connick Jr. reacted to it. Based on some of my tweets you can hopefully understand where I stand regarding this unfortunate incident.
Norway world’s best place to live?
Reuters writes:
Norway has retained its status as the world’s most desirable country to live in, according to U.N. data released on Monday, which ranks sub-Saharan African states afflicted by war and HIV/AIDS as the least attractive places.
If it’s the country to live in, why haven’t I been living there the last 4+ years?
I’m fairly confident that this is the prime example how statistics can really be used the wrong way. Based on the report, I can’t say I recognise Norway. At least that’s not the Norway I grew up in or read about everyday in the Norwegian media.
Either I must have been in all the wrong places everyday and I’m still reading the wrong articles everyday, or something can’t be right with the statistics.
I wonder if they asked anyone in Norway what they think, or if they took a few numbers, mixed them together and created a bunch of new numbers and claimed them as “facts”.
After living in my fourth country I can say with certainty, as of now, that there is now best country. All countries have different qualities. And from the countries I’ve been living in, they do a lot more things better than Norway.
With friends comes work?
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Have I become an old boring geek?
Last night I went to the monthly 2600 meeting in Brisbane. We played a few rounds on Quake Arena and later on talked about different geek and hacker topics. I had fun, but not as much fun as I expected.
I’ve always had an interesting in hacking and trying to make gadgets and such do more than it’s expected to do. Yesterday I drifted away when they were talking about wifi sniffing and cracking. Well, I listened with one ear, but I didn’t feel as interested as I might have been 10+ years ago.
I’m not sure if I’m losing interest, or if my focus is shifting to something that everyone can benefit from.
I’ve always been interested in telecommunication, so exploiting wifi is interesting, but not something I would go around doing everyday. My focus has always been more focused on transportation and spreading information securely. Be it words or raw data.
I think it’s safe to say that I find social engineering and media hacking more interesting and useful in the long run. Don’t get me wrong, keeping focus on how to better improve wireless security is important; but can that be used to change the world?
Also I don’t tinker as much as I used to. I just browse around the web, reading news and randomly posting an article now and then.
Honestly I don’t know where I’m heading with this article, but I’ll try to sum it up in the next paragraph.
I think I’ve just become too tired of always tinkering with stuff without no purpose. I spent maybe an hour to fix the sound issue in Fedora 11, thanks to a great howto; but that had an actual meaning and end result. I do have a few ideas on how to change this, but I’ll air those ideas later or never.
Live long and prosper.
I’m not sure if I love or hate car driving.
Today we decided to take a trip to Nimbin (NSW). It’s about 171km from Brisbane, which is a 2h drive.
I kind of find driving fun, but then again not. I’ve done some practicing back in Norway and Sweden, and I’m a big fan of car games; but I’m still fresh. I still can’t help wondering how some of these drivers actually have a license. It seems like they just got it in the mail, by surprise.
The first bogan driver seemed a bit annoyed that a had to force my self in front of him, even if I had been signaling for a while and the first car didn’t let me in when I tried to merge. So when we came to a red light, he decided to speed up and cut in front of me. Continuing on the highway he actually tried to prevent me from legally overtaking him; but when I was in lane three aand he was in lane one I just snuck up on the side and coasted slowly past him.
As a learner driver, and someone who tries to follow laws as they are written, I force myself to keep the speed limit; as everyone else should too.
I find it odd that it’s so difficult for some to drive 100km/h where the speed limit is 100km/h.
Of course, you also have these idiots who obviously have much better car than we do, but they insist on driving 10km/h below the speed limit.
Do I really have to mention these idiots who ride up your arse, even if you are keeping the speed limit, when the speed limit is 110km/h?
In certain situations I find driving a car very fun, but now and then I just feel like stopping the car, getting out and just grab my bike instead.
There’s so many situations we’ve been in that I could actually just slammed the breaks, slammed it on an animal and we would probably have a new car, thanks to the hoon tailgating us.
Why I criticise Telstra.
From what I know, Telstra is doing what many telcos did when Internet was scarce and new to the public, and they really don’t know what they are doing; which is about 10 years ago. In other words, I feel like I’ve traveled back in time. Traveled back to the technological dark ages.
The irony is that I think broadband came to Australia the same time as in Norway, so you would think Australia would have managed to pull their finger out from their hole by now. Apparently not.
Cafes are there to be used.
I can’t help but laugh at the main article and the comments found on this Digg article. I fully understand you’re not making much money from someone drinking your cheapest coffee one cup an hour, but is that customer the only one to blame?
Read the whole article.
