Politicians are clueless...

twits when it comes to matters technical, case in point is our dear Patricia de Lille. She recently railed about anonymous comments that were put up on some blog criticising her dear friend Simon Grindrod.
"The only way to put a stop to this is to use every legal option to hold not only the website, but also the perpetrator, responsible. This kind of thing must not go unchallenged."
Dear Pat and Simon... trying to trace that comment if and when you get the necessary court order, that would be infringing on the blog site's owners privacy rights by the way as well he rights of the ISP's in question, not to mention the cost involved... why not worry more about crime and joblessness! I wonder how she found out about it in any case? Spending a lot of time on the Web in parlament are we Ms de Lille?

Holy Moses who?

This is going to piss off some traditionally weaponed tribesmen for sure!
I must say there is quite a paucity of quotes etc. about this "illustrious" comrade on the internet, so much for being "famous.

Digg is digging it's own grave...

by letting this happen. I for one will never use Digg, especially after this episode. I am not even going to post the link but let you see the wiki about it... speaking of Wiki...
This is similar to what is happening on Wiki with anything related to islam or Cuba. The pro islam/cuban contributors are online 24/7 monitoring these articles and as soon as the correct information gets posted it gets changed again. This is one of the dangers of the Internet and open forums. You always get hijacked... just like South Africa really so that is why I feel so at home on the web... it is just like walking down to the mall...
I could get mugged, knifed, shot, or get there in one piece, it just depends what moonbat is out at that hour...

But for the grace of God

there goes my daughter... I was checking out the news lately and all this craziness over Britney shaving her head and all got me thinking... I think all her family and fans should get on their knees and start praying for her because she is having a breakdown. The pressure of the media is a terrible thing, she cannot move without being in the lens of photograpers or from my view the jackals of the press. To me she is saying "You wanna see shocking! well watch what I do next!"
Maybe this is the idolarity of our age? With the true victims being the Idolised?

The trees will be glad...

to hear that the print media is heading for extinction and so will I. Kate's blog about the gnashing of teeth over at the New York Times made add my comment thus;
The print media used to give out the news of the day with an editorial comment... then they started putting their view on each news item and that was when truth left journalism. From there it was a downward slide and the Internet was the edge of the precipice. I do not see a way back up for them, neither is it a big loss, unless you like wrapping your fish and chips in the paper.
Kate's comment "It's not a war, Mr. Sulzberger. It's a revolt." is probably the epitaph of modern newspapers as we know them. Personally I don't give a damn if they recover from this slump or not. History will show that the media failed their prime directive and paid the price...

Tuesday Twit

Microsoft, for the copy protection implemented in Vista... this is going to be a deal breaker in my humble opinion.
Many people have legitimate copies of media in their possession and now the Lords of Redmond want to dictate what I may or may not see on MY PC with their software?

BBC pro muslim bias shines through

Once again tha BBC shows it's muslim loving streak;
"What the Ethiopian government doesn't understand is that it is making a continual enemy to Ethiopians at large"
Tsegaye Girma, Addis Ababa
When one views the comments the overwhelming majority are for the ousting of the muslim mafia but Auntie beeb has to quote one of the few negative views.

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

This quote by A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963), was long before the Internet and Blogging. Today anyone with access to the Internet can put their thoughts, view's and rants on the WWW for all to see yet we still have Countries that cannot accept that the world is a village and try to stifle free speech. May they all fall like the Berlin wall!
With this freedom however comes a terrible responsibility and unfortunately we have people on the Internet that have no conscience or morals that abuse this wonderful gift with abuse, spam and other nefarious deeds. May they rot in hell!
Long live the ability for people to express their thoughts freely!

Worth reading.

I have found New Media Journal to be very informative as well as balanced... time to put them on my sidebar too...