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February 10, 2010

Iran is reportedly blocking Gmail, permanently.

Iran is reportedly blocking Gmail for good, so the news said.

Pre-emptive strikes!

June 29, 2009

Anything Goes: June 29th, 2009 Edition.

Starting this early in the morning, and kinda bored by the news.

Pirate parties parade through Prague, Paris (Ars Technica) | They are gaining ground.
China bans online ‘gold farming’ (CNET News) | So who am I gonna outsource gold farming on my WOW account now?
Supreme Court Serves Up Remote-Recording Victory (Wired.com) | An important precedence for consumer’s right.
Iran upholds Ahmadinejad poll victory after recount (Reuters) | At least they don’t have lawyers involved. They only insisted on what the result is by recounting a “random” 10% of the ballot.

June 28, 2009

Anything Goes: June 28th, 2009 Edition.

Missing a lot of news items for the past weeks, and still have a few in draft mode. A lot of things are happening today.

Slayer: About the Apocalypse. Interview with Drummer, Dave Lombardo (KNAC) | The interview was conducted before Slayer embarked on the Canadian Carnage Tour with Megadeth.
Transformers 2 kills in its opening five days with $200M (SCI FI Wire) | All the bad reviews did not stop people from watching this movie at all. Great. This will encourage Michael Bay to make more movies with more explosions.
Billy Mays, star pitchman, dead at 50 (CNNMoney) | A lot of celebrity death this week.
Army overthrows Honduras president in vote dispute (Reuters) | From the article: “Zelaya fired military chief Gen. Romeo Vasquez last week for refusing to help him run an unofficial referendum on Sunday on extending the four-year term limit on Honduran presidents.”

June 25, 2009

Anything Goes: June 25th, 2009 Edition.

Woke up this morning, read some emails and figured some silly settings for Entourage to connect to Exchange Server 2007. I then setup the Entourage remotely. In addition to that, I re-encoded a movie short through iChat Desktop Sharing.

Ahmadinejad compares Obama to Bush (Yahoo! News) | It is obvious that both Barack Obama and George W. Bush are Presidents of The United States.
Transformers 2’s $55 million breaks Wednesday opening record (SCI FI Wire) | It is really impressive for a movie that is getting such bad reviews here, here and here. The reviews at Rotten Tomatoes confirm this. Then again it doesn’t matter because it has a great opening day and they’re working on Transformers 3 for 2001 release even before Transformers 2 was released; allegedly. More giant transforming robots and explosions!
RIAA settles suit where defendant had no PC (MacNN) | Yesterday’s news, but it is still worth mentioning. In the eye of RIAA, everyone steals music. The term “PC” refers to “personal computer” regardless of the operating system. It’s not about the whole “Mac” vs “PC” things.
Pirate Bay Retrial Denied (Wired.com) | As usual, the Pirate Bay responded in their blog. What would the Pirate Party do in the European Parliament?

June 24, 2009

Anything Goes: June 24th, 2009 Edition.

I had quite a crazy morning with Outlook and Exchange Server. Then I went to the Apple Store to get a 15-inch MacBook Pro Battery replaced. It only has 70 full-charge-cycles and it lasts about 5 minutes of charge.

Bunch of letters and numbers and punctuations from the series of tubes:

Unimaginable Horror In Tehran Today (ThreatsWatch.org) | Video is from CNN. Contain graphics picture.
Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malware (ZDNet) | Twitter users have been victims of account-hijacking for quite sometimes now. This is not the first time certainly won’t be the last for a foreseeable future. Obviously this is the same trojan aimed at Mac and Windows users. It is way too obvious that ActiveX plugin on Mac OS X is a trojan. Please be careful no matter what operating system you’re using.
SPINAL TAP: ‘Back From The Dead’ First-Week Sales Revealed (Blabbermouth.net) | It sold 10,000 copies on its first week of release. Buy this CD from Amazon.com! (read disclaimer at the end of this post.) It is better than majority of music released this year so far.
Panasonic Begins To Lock Out 3d-Party Camera Batteries (SlashDot) | Printer manufacturers have tried doing something similar. Then again there are a lot of poor quality third party batteries being sold.

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June 23, 2009

Anything Goes: June 23rd, 2009 Edition.

What a day so far and I don’t remember most of it.

Ed McMahon dies at 86 (Reuters) | A friend broke the news to me early in the morning. Ed McMahon is an American Pop Culture icon. Just in case you want to know more about Ed McMahon, Wikipedia has a great article about him.
Doctors Baffled, Intrigued by Girl Who Doesn’t Age (ABC News) | A medical mystery. Sometimes parents wished their baby would never grew up. This is not really what they meant.
AT&T Navigator brings true turn-by-turn navigation to Apple iPhone for $9.99/mo. (MacDailyNews) | Apparently AT&T believes that their customers are not paying them enough. Word of advice, wait until other companies offer navigation apps for the iPhone. To be fair, AT&T will provide automatic updates and real traffic alert. Once again, compare it to other similar service/apps.
Iran bans prayers for ‘Angel of Freedom’ Neda Agha Soltan (Telegraph.co.uk) | In keeping with the theme, Iran should also ban thinking and speaking. Wait a minute, in a way they’ve already done so.

June 19, 2009

Anything Goes: June 19th, 2009 Edition.

I’m suffering from sleep depravation but still have time to browse the Internet for some news.

Iran’s supreme leader rejects vote fraud claims (CNN) | Well, if the supreme leader said so then it must be true. Seriously, he doesn’t even need to count the votes to say that.
Whats the Difference between Reddit and Digg? (Reddit) | Just in case you missed it, it’s about Pixar granting a little girl’s dying wish. Reddit article vs Digg article.
Microsoft backtracks, extends XP availability to 2011 (Computerworld) | More reasons not to get Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Facebook, Google Go Persian, Aiding Iran’s Activists (Wired) | Good news.
Iran’s leader: End protests or risk ‘bloodshed’ (Yahoo) | Like I’ve never heard that before. If you can’t control the mind, shake your iron fist at them.