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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Lawmaker: Broadband Funds Exclude Appalachia
Lawmaker: Broadband Funds Exclude Appalachia -- Broadband Funding -- InformationWeekLawmaker: Broadband Funds Exclude Appalachia
Communities isolated by mountains, but geographically near populated areas don't qualify for federal stimulus funding.By W. David Gardner
InformationWeek
September 11, 2009 02:42 PM
Rural areas are slated to receive a lopsided amount of federal stimulus grants for broadband, but mountainous regions -- likewise short on broadband access -- are in danger of having grants withheld, according to a congressman conducting hearings on the issue this week.Rick Boucher, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, noted that in mountainous areas of his West Virginia home state, grant funding can be withheld because communities are near cities, even though they are cut off from easy broadband access by mountains. Boucher is conducting a hearing Friday on oversight of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act involving broadband access.
"For communities with small populations that are isolated by mountains, the cost of building broadband can be great," Boucher said in a statement prepared for Friday's hearing, "And with populations as few as 100 homes, that cost can't be recovered through the revenues to be realized from the broadband service."
Providing access to the Internet is a license to take money out of your pocket and put it in the ISP's pocket. Why have we never heard of the real cost of providing Internet service compared to the income? Hmmm?!?! The FCC should use the same "regulations" on ISP's that were imposed on the Telephone company to provide rural service.
SA pigeon ‘faster than broadband’
all creatures [great and small] - crowth: SA pigeon ‘faster than broadband’ | BBC...
SA pigeon ‘faster than broadband’ | BBC NEWS
Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.
A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country’s biggest web firm, Telkom.
Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Micky D's - More lawyers than common sense.
Global Voices Online » Malaysia: McDonald’s vs McCurry
Malaysia’s Federal Court has ruled that McDonald’s trademark name was not violated by McCurry, a local Indian restaurant which is popular in Kuala Lumpur.
McCurry, which opened in 1999, was sued by McDonald's in 2001. According to the owners of McCurry, the “Mc” prefix in the restaurant’s name stands for Malaysian Chicken Curry.
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McDonald loses court battle in Malaysia
In a David-and-Goliath match-up in the world of fast food in Malaysia, McDonald loses a court battle against McCurry -- a small Indian curry shop in Malaysia. The court battle lasted for eight years. McDonald's claimed that the prefix "Mc" in McCurry trampled on its trademark. The country's Federal Court on Tuesday ruled that it didn't. Photo: McCurry restaurant owners A.M.S.P Suppiah and his wife Kanageswary Suppiah.
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Catastrophic FAIL - DELL COMMUNITY
Inside Enterprise IT - Inside Enterprise IT - DELL COMMUNITY
Watering My SMB Roots
09 September , 07:05 AM
It’s hard to believe that I’ve now been at Dell for almost 10 years. Where did the time go? I think back to my first year at Dell as a fledging server marketing manager, studying RAID groups, redundant-hot-swap whatever every night when I went home, so I wouldn’t get roasted by the hard-core technical sales reps (TSRs). Let’s be clear … they roasted me anyway, but at least it was on my terms. Anyone that knows me knows I thrive on sarcasm and strong personalities. Those guys shaped me into the storage person I am today.
I was part of the Small and Medium Business (SMB) group of Dell back in those days. I loved the emotion involved in that job … entrepreneurs growing their businesses, people in love with their job (not necessarily in love with IT) -- I could relate. After living in that universe for almost three years, it became my foundation. Our performance plans call it Customer Advocacy (or something like that), but it ingrained a passion in me that still surfaces regularly today.
Maybe that’s why I’m all over our new PowerVault NX300 Network-Attached Storage (NAS) platform. It gives me a chance to get back on my SMB soap box and show how we’re addressing their business problems with technology - ...
I started out just reading the text of this posting in GoogleReader (No picture!) Sounded like a real person, a real committed person, really engaging. I was beginning to get excited about the positive story being related. I really started to relate. Then I clicked on the embedded link. BUMMER, "We're sorry." ...
Dell has sadly let me down. On the Internet fail links spell disaster. Particularly fail links that introduce a new product. Here is the message that I come away with... fail link = fail product. I know it is unfair but it is very difficult to un-experience a first experience.
We're sorry!
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Monday, September 07, 2009
a certain state of enlightenment...
Myanmar: UFO or flying Buddha?
By Michael Cohen
The reader, from Myanmar, who sent us the link to this video (below) told us that:
'This footage is taken by a unknown teenage girl in Myanmar (Burma).Posted on youtube by Nyi Nyi. There are kids voice in the footage saying flying 'Ya Han Dah' It is believed to be a flying Buddhist monk.Said to have been taken on the First day of the Myanmar New Year 2009. This is definitely not CGI cause i have studied it many times and i am a graphic artist myself. This is definitely not visual effects.It is a monk wearing a so called yellow robe but really deep-red in color. In my country many sighting such as this has happened in the past and thousands have witnessed these events but this is a first time on tape that i have seen so far. In Buddhist scriptures, Buddhist monks are able to achieve flight through achieving a certain state of enlightenment.
Those monks who has become enlightened are not known as being enlightened until they die. On burning their corpse, instead of pile of ashes, balls of ashes are left and then it was known that this monk was enlightened and has pass to a higher realm or Nirvana. Some monks don't rot and their fingernails kept growing even after they die. This is not something u would find on casual BBC or CNN news as this world is immersed by Christianity and Islams. Buddhism is not a religion its a practice of good. So whoever reading this should rethink what is what. Sorry.. I got a little carried away.
“Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”
“Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”
- Alan PerlisSunday, September 06, 2009
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Hat tip to Friday, September 04, 2009
Thursday, September 03, 2009
I am a Leader - Reposted from The Elder Storytelling Place
I am a Leader
from The Elder Storytelling Place by Ronni Bennett
By George Baker
I AM A LEADER
When faced with any decision, I will do the right thing and refuse to do nothing.
I AM A LEADER
I have no desire to manage a work force.
My desire is to lead a team.
I will not get behind and push and coerce my team.
I will get out in front and pull and inspire my team.
I AM A LEADER
I am a product of my decisions, not a victim of my conditions.
It is my choice to make things happen and to never make excuses.
I refuse to merely be reactive to my circumstances.
I resolve that proactive planning will determine my destiny.
I AM A LEADER
I will practice self-discipline and self-control before asking others to do so.
I will never be satisfied with the status quo.
I will not complacently do what is expected.
I will eagerly exceed expectations.
I AM A LEADER I will communicate more vision than supervision. I will stimulate and communicate a futuristic vision. I will not futilely fight the changing tide. I will excitedly ride the wave of the future.
I AM A LEADER
My values will not vacillate depending on who I am with.
My integrity will remain immutable, no matter what the circumstances.
I will not blame, belittle, besmirch, or begrudge another person.
I will try to excite, exhort, encourage, and empower others.
I AM A LEADER
I will not have to be coddled, cajoled, coerced, or kowtowed into doing my job.
I will have the caring, character, courage, and commitment to perform my duties to the utmost.
I am committed to being a life-long learner.
The day I stop learning, is the day I stop breathing.
I AM A LEADER
I refuse to spend my time fighting the fires of the urgent.
I resolve to proactively plan my time to focus on the critical.
I refuse to waste my time in the present worrying about the future.
I realize that the best way to predict the future is to create it.
I AM A LEADER
(Thank you George Baker and Ronni Bennett)
Media: Right, Left and unbiased?
A recent report brought to the surface the difference between media and society...
Sri Lanka: A Journalist Sentenced For 20 Years
Sepia Mutiny reports that Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam, who has written articles critical of the Sri Lankan government for a magazine, has been sentenced for 20 years hard labor.
Groundviews first highlighted the case of J.S. Tissainayagam last year, noting that,
Salient points of Tissa’s case point to a larger and more chilling deterioration of media freedom in Sri Lanka under the Rajapakse administration. Tissa’s case in particular reveals a particularly twisted logic, and through it, confirms fears that the regime in the South now completely mirrors the intolerance of media freedom and free expression the LTTE is known and reviled for.
In contrast I reflect on our right guaranteed by the first amendment, the freedom of speech. As a society we are both burdened and blessed with this freedom. We must endure the seeming endless tirades of self-interested parties bent on swaying public opinion. As well, under the same protective freedom we enjoy the privilege of publicly expressing our values in art, theater, dance, literature and more. Sometimes even unfettered political criticism. What we as a society has learned is that our democratic form of government compensates for the polar extremes of freedom of speech. Further, we know that the onus of responsibility for filtering, affirming or dismissing a given free speech expression falls squarely on our shoulders. This is in sharp contrast to nation-states such as those sited above as well as a myriad of others. Governments and power brokers who would believe that by repressing the free press, by stifling freedom of expression, that they are in some way protecting the people. In fact they are only trying to keep their people ignorant. They are not repressing a free press as much as they are suppressing knowledge. This deprivation of knowledge is the primary means used to maintain power. Power, after all, is what it is all about. Frightened despotic governments who rule not by popular mandate but by the imposed shadow of ignorance cannot be taken seriously in this day and age. They are laughable. Sadly, while they laugh at their population's enforced ignorance, the free world cries for a journalist sentenced to 20 years hard labor.
Monday, August 31, 2009
The geek version - Apologies to Janis
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a 4BSD?
My friends all got sources, so why can't I see?
Come all you moby hackers, come sing it out with me:
To hell with the lawyers from AT&T!
Saturday, August 29, 2009
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