January 10th, 2010 | Author:
akagaga
This old fogy is finally going to take the plunge and get an MP3 player. I spend about 6 hours a week in the car going back and forth to therapy, so I decided to get an audio Bible. I found one I like for MP3, that I think will be a lot easier in the car than using CD’s – plus it’s a lot cheaper.
So now I need something to play it on, and I’m looking for recommendations from all you savvy folks – or better yet, you unsavvy folks who’ve managed to use an MP3 anyhow. Here are my requirements:
- it needs to be easy to use
- I’ll need 1.9 GB to load the Bible, plus I’ll want to add some music
- it needs to be easy to use
- I don’t care about a lot of bells and whistles
- it needs to be easy to use
- I don’t want to spend a fortune
- have I mentioned that it needs to be easy to use?
So I await the wisdom of all you who have traveled this road before me: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
December 18th, 2009 | Author:
akagaga
This cartoon says it better than any of my words might.
November 10th, 2009 | Author:
akagaga
From Wendy McElroy.com:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that the secret negotiations for the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) are including draconian provisions:
…according to the leaks, ACTA member countries will be required to provide for third-party (Internet Intermediary) liability. This is not required by any of the major international IP treaties — not by the 1994 Trade Related Aspects of IP agreement, nor the WIPO Copyright and WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. However, US copyright owners have long sought this.
The “third party” here is your ISP. What this means is that if you share files on the Internet, your ISP can be held legally responsible, even though they’re only providing you a communications channel and not hosting the content. (This is like holding the phone company responsible if you read passages aloud from Atlas Shrugged during a phone call.) Predictable consequences: (1) ISPs will be required to monitor all of your Internet traffic; (2) ISPs will shut down your connection at the slightest hint of legal liability.
Read the rest here.
Hurray, hurray, my picture is in, thanks to Blogatech!
The only problem is the little “yeah, right” title on the left side shouldn’t be visible. (Okay, I shrunk it down so you have to look real hard, but I still know it’s there.) The post said I needed to look for something called an H1 tag and delete it, but I couldn’t find one.
If any of you techies out there have any ideas, I’m all ears.
January 31st, 2009 | Author:
akagaga
It seems I’m way behind the times, but I figure I’m not the only one, so here’s a very cool search engine. When you do a search through Scroogle, it goes to Google, and you get a fast, nice clean list of results, without all the ads.
Why bother, you ask? Because, unlike Google, who stores every search you do, just waiting for some government bureaucrat to come looking for it, Scroogle:
- doesn’t use cookies
- doesn’t save search terms
- deletes logs within 48 hours
When you search using Scroogle:
- Google cannot set a cookie
- doesn’t see your IP address
- and cannot tell which searches are from the same person
They have a secure link if you want, and if you click Browser support, Firefox, (which is what I use) there’s a search engine plug-in available. What’s more, Scroogle is an official non-profit.
If you think Google is getting a little too big for its britches – not to mention they’re a little too happy to cooperate with whatever government is around – check out Scroogle!
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