Randy Charles Morin blogs for the sake of blogging.
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Tomorrow, many bloggers in the blogosphere will be going silent to remember the victims of Virginia Tech. That's a great idea that I intend to respect. It'll be very difficult to resist the urge to blog. Please join us! If you have the will power to do it, that is.
http://www.onedayblogsilence.com/
This website has a list of copyright violating media that you can download and not pay for. The library is very big and might not be around for long. Hurry!
These guys are looking for that future wife and are willing to embarass themselves on video to get one. You don't want to laugh. It's not nice. But you will anyway.
Just in! The Jessica Lynch Rescue Video. Check it out!
When I saw the title of this YouTube, I knew exactly what the commercial was and started ROTFLMAO. Then I watched it and wasn't disappointed.
This is the best dumb blonde joke I've seen in quite some time.
Today is NOT Earth Day! It's NBC day! Long live NBC.
Where are they now? Wow! How about V.P. Marketing at Google. Several years after hiring me as a development manager at Opencola, David is a top executive at Google and has been for the last year. I've got to pay more attention.
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R|mail.This 19-yr-old leaves a nasty phone messages for his unyet born child that he plans on giving her when she's 11.
And here's a parody of Balwin's daughter's first listening to the voice messages.
You know you are a celebrity when you get hate mail from yourself.
R|mail.Between his first two killings at 7AM and the massacre after 9AM, the gunman sent a package to NBC. This guy was clearly off his rocker. The video is mostly insane dribble.
R|mail.Yet anther great Budweiser commercial.
This guy was extremely demented. He wrote multiple plays that are extremely dark. Check them out!
- Richard McBeef
- Mr Brownstone
He was a stalker. He was a loner. Everybody was advising him to seek counselling. All the signs were there.
Virginia Tech senior Cho Seung-Hui walked into a Roanoke gun shop five weeks ago, put down a credit card and walked out with a Glock 19 handgun and a box of ammunition. He paid $571.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070418/NEWS07/704180419
Is it time yet to remove this right?
Now let me tell you my story.
Several years ago, I bought a motorhome. On two occasions I informed the 407 of the license plate number. Twice, because I changed from the original plates to a new custom plate in the first months of owning the vehicle. I drive the 407etr quite regularly and pay the bills on time every month.
Then, one day, I received a call from a collections agency indicating that I owed the 407 money. After inquiring several times with little success, we finally found out that the 407 had incorrectly created a new account for my motorhome with an incorrect address. They mailed my statement to an invalid address for awhile before changing the address on the account to 6300 Steeles. If you don't know, that address is the address of the 407 HQ. So, I never once received an invoice.
The 407 agreed that it was their fault and agreed to drop the account if we paid the basic driving charges. We paid the basic charges. We also asked that the 407 send us the missing statements and that has never occurred to this date. We've asked on several occasions.
A few weeks went by and we started receiving calls from collections agencies again. We contacted the 407 again and they again agreed to drop the account. For the last few years we've continued to received calls from collection agencies about this account, which the 407 continues to agree with don't owe money on.
I've had many friends in this same situation and they've told me they paid the account to simply rid themselves of the credit problem and the potential that they couldn't renew their license. Unfortunately, I'm not a person like that. This continued harassment by the 407 is also now racketeering, because they have threatened in a letter that I may not be able to renew my license. I ask you to file harassment and racketeering charges against the executives of the 407. I have names and phones numbers of the people we've contacted. Failure to file these charges is admission that you are also co-operative with this corrupt big business. Anybody that doesn't co-operative will be exposed.
I've been playing online poker for two years now. I've been jumping from one poker room to another as I get fed up with the obviously problems with each. The biggest problem I come down to, is that the hands are stacked. I'm not saying that anybody has an advantage, I don't know that, but I have determined that every poker room has basic flaws. I keep track of how often pocket Aces are dealt, how often poket pairs are dealt, how often draws are hit and in almost every situation, the numbers are implausible. Pocket aces are hit in 1 in every 5 to 10 hands, where in real poker, the number should be closer to 1 in 25 hands, assuming 9 players. Even draws hit twice as often as they should and more. I understand that they do this in order to encourage players, but I just want to play real poker. Not this fake poker. Does anybody know of an online poker room that isn't fake?
Beyond the card dealing problems, I've noticed several other problems that exist in many online poker rooms. Sometimes, you can't fold, when realistically you should always be able to fold. Sometimes, when you muck a hand, other players can still uncover your cards in the hand history. Sometimes, when one player is all-in, you cannot raise. I've never played any online poker room that doesn't have one of these flaws. I'm amazed that someone hasn't come around that actually implements the basic rules of poker successfully.
Ever since the Kathy Sierra incident, blogger's have been talking like legislators. In fact, we've even tried to impose our own code of conduct on blogging. Unfortunately, people seem to be confusing rights with democracy. Agreeing on a code of conduct doesn't really accomplish anything. Conduct is not really a factor of consensus, but rather it's a factor of basic human rights. Consensus is not sufficient. On this issue, rights and democracy are in conflict.
Douglas Karr gives us 25 signs you might have a problem blogging. I only got 12 of 25, so I think I'm safe.
2. You re-organize your [family] room to have better access to a computer.
3. In order to answer some questions, you sometimes have to search your own blog.
9. You found out Anna Nicole Smith died online. [I thought she was a 2nd life personality?]
11. You host blogs for friends, family, and colleagues.
13. You have a lot of friends that you’ve never actually met nor talked to in real life.
14. You understand acronyms like IMHO
18. Any blog without comments sucks… [even] except for Seth’s Blog.
19. You know Ze is funny, Hugh draws great comics on business cards, and Mark was really, really lucky with his first business.
20. You know that any comment from a site ending in “info” is blog spam.
22. You have trouble sleeping without posting. [I sometimes wake in the middle of the night to blog]
23. You only stay at [campgrounds] hotels with broadband or with a Starbucks within 3 blocks.
24. You identify yourself as a blogger [the period should be here] rather than the actual profession that you make a living on.
http://www.douglaskarr.com/2007/04/14/25-signs-you-might-have-a-problem-blogging/
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I just read about the Virginia Tech massacre. Thirty-three students died from what started as an argument between a boyfriend and girlfriend. The worst shooting massacre in U.S. history. This is horrible! Only four days after the 8th anniversary of Columbine. My condolences to the families.
It appears the university didn't warn the staff and students until two hours after the massacre started. The boyfriend shot his girlfriend and R.A. at 7:15 AM. Staff and students were not warned until more than 2 hours later and moments after he killed the vast majority of his victims.
It also appears the gunman planned the entire massacre and killed himself with a gunshot to the head. The man remains unidentified.
Novell appears to have extended the PC vs. Mac commercial series. Linux is hot!
I could watch beer commercials on YouTube all day.
Is there anything beer can't do?
In these commercials, I usually pick the PC, but not this time. Can your Apple do this?
Who needs TV? Just go to YouTube and type whatever keyword suits your fancy.
Awesome homemade Star Wars' Dark Side Oreo Cookies by Sith, Inc.
Twenty-three years ago, Apple introduced the world to the Macintosh with the following commercial. I was a proud Apple IIe user and have never touched an Apple computer since.
I recently ordered a new dedicated server from my hosting service. When I got the email to confirm the order, there was instructions attached about a NAS (Network Attached Storage) Backup. I surely didn't order this service, so I assumed it came with the package. This weekend, I tried to access this service and wasn't able to connect to the backup server. I sent an email to support and they responded.
I apologize for the misinformation. To access the network backup storage, you'll need to...
So I followed the instruction, which weren't much different than the ones I was already using and I still couldn't connect to the backup server. I sent them another inquiring email and they responded.
I apologize for the confusion. The server plan you have with us does not include the FTP Network Backup feature.
Huh? I mean really. Try! Please try! You are wasting my time otherwise.
Philipp Lenssen jokes that Google will acquire the Internet in 10 years for $2,455 billion. My websites make up 1/10,000 of the Internet or something like that (OK, I'm just guessing). So, I'll be getting $250 million as part of this deal. Nice!
My Dad asked if he needed this diskette anymore. It's Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0 for Windows 95. I told him I need it. A classic antique from 1996.
I tried Full Tilt Poker today. My first hand was straight and second was full house. Honestly, I'm so tired of these fake games. Later, I wanted to fold and I only had the option to check or raise. What a f-ing joke! Does anybody know of a legit power room?
Update: Full tilt Joke! Since my last bad experience, I'm having a problem just connecting. What a joke!
It takes one good email to get my business. Today, I got an email from netnation.com inquiring as to how my hosting with their sister company hostway.com was progressing. That's the type of proactive customer service that gets me to say that I'll be hosting exclusively with them in the near future.
BlogPulse reveals that those crying for blogger ethics have set aside a domain for the purpose. Then they point out that BlogHer has already done such. All the while, BlogHer heroes are quiting over the initiating incident. Where's the right and wrong? We'll never know, cause those in the wrong will simply lie. Or maybe not! Did you support an organization that laid out death threats? And then you failed to even suggest you're sorry? It's not your fault, you were just an innocent bi-stander. I'm not pretending to be stupid like the others. It was the invisible ghosts participants that wrote the posts. Name names or you are part of the problem.
One of those things I do to relax is play online poker (free, not real money). I've tried a wide varietry of different online poker houses. Each poker house clearly has behaviorial components that allow newbies to compete with more experiences players. For example, when I join a new online poker house, I get 4 of kind left and right, but eventually over time as my chip count grows, I get worse and worse hands. I know why they do it. They want to encourage the lesser player. Guess where they make their money? But honestly, its very frustrating. I just want to play legit poker. I go to a new poker house and I get lucky for a week and I know it's a fix. Big deal! I think there's an opportunity in online poker game audit reports.
John of Finding the Money has a great list of 10 ways to become the next Scoble or not.
- Ask a blogger for a favor,
- Use messaging
- Sport the dollar signs in your eyes
- Avoid writing comments that resemble actual conversation.
- Copy another blogger's content.
- Borrow heavily
- Write sponsored reviews
- Have a unique perspective on spam
- Focus on memes, contests, link-lists
- Do everything on this list
The titles don't do John's work justice. Funny! Read his entire blog entry.
http://findingthemoney.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-annoy-entire-blogosphere.html
Victor Keegan of The Guardian says that blogging is still a minority sport. You mean in only 4 years we haven't been able to join the big stage with Major League Baseball and the National Football League? Darn. Maybe next year. If they are already trying to say we are not prime time, then they are scared that we will be soon.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2054402,00.html
R|mail.Tim O'Reilly has more on his Blogging Code. He seems to suggest that the code is enforcible. He also talks about a moderation system. Does the word censorship come to mind when you hear moderation system?
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/code_of_conduct.html
In Canada we really only have two seasons; Winter and Construction. The construction is the first sign of spring and lasts beyond the first snow falls. This is near Steeles and Hurontario. They reconstruct Steeles every construction season. Somebody's brother must be in charge of building this road.
I found these two brilliantly signs at a hockey rink in Brampton where my kids take skating lessons. The hours of operation simply show one time. You don't know if that's when they open or close. Take a guess what their actual hours are!
I'm simply amazed just how much incompetence rules in this world. This picture was in a parking garage downtown Toronto (340 College). I hit the maximum time button and immediately noticed that it contradicts all the posted signage. I was charged $10 instead of the posted $9.
Just now, I received what looks like a mass mailing to bloggers. The first two sentences I found quite confusing and amusing. If you are gonna spam me, then at least write good copy.
XYZ is an ideal place that brings a wide range of interesting mobile applications and games that make life more effective and fun!
Make life more effective? What exactly does that mean?
It is a complete content delivery platform that offers a unique experience to those who wish to explore, purchase and download the latest mobile content.
Just who even knows what mobile content is? It's a buzzword for ringtones, MP3s, etc. I love the B.S. copy that people write. Clearly, these people are doing something in the mobile space, but what exactly, I have no idea. I get one of these almost everyday, even from other known bloggers with their own Web 2.0 compliant startups.
R|mail.Dave Winer is completely infatuated with Tim O'Reilly. This isn't a new thing. Dave's thing with Tim has been going on for many years.
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/04/09/whatKindOfKidWasTimOreilly.html
Peter Dawson read my mind when he followed up my post with the following thoughts.
Yeah it a simple no fuss, no frills tdeal, hat every human being adheres too. Its simple ..no big deal
1) If you cross the line - apologies. We all make mistakes.
2) If an anon comment is off topic or inflammatory - you delete it. It's your blog - own it , clean it and keep your house in order !!
...that my 2 cents for this topic. It't not about being a Blogger, its about being a decent Person.
I swear I wrote this word for word and deleted it before posting.
http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2007/04/blogger_ethics.html
The conversation of blogger ethics that fell out of the Kathy Sierra incidents continues. Tim O'Reilly has created a draft blogger's code of conduct. Dave Winer doesn't like it. But then, if Tim gave us world peace, I doubt Dave would like that either. Dave simply doesn't like Tim. Maryam Scoble reached out to Dave. Dave didn't buy it. Now Maryam's hubby, Robert Scoble is reaching out. Let's see where this goes.
I think Dave is completely wrong here. I think his opinions are biased on the fact that he really doesn't like Tim and therefor doesn't like anything that Tim does or creates.
On the other hand, I don't think we need Tim's blogger ethics. Blogging has already been tarnished by nastiness. Or do we forget that many of the early bloggers were mostly trolls that found a more profitable way of expressing themselves. Trolling is a blogosphere past-time. You can look at this historically and find the same trolls on USENET years earlier. We don't need a code for bloggers. Bloggers are human and we already have a code of conduct for humans.
Now, I'm not saying you have to be nice, but I think we all know there is a line in the sand. I think we all know where that line is. I think we all know when we cross it.
My brother-in-law has a new family law firm in Brampton (near Toronto).
Dave Winer just revealed his own dislike of lawyers and I couldn't agree with him more. In particular, he says:
I've been naive about lawyers, but I'm learning fast. There's a technique they learn somewhere that I think of as messing you up every way they can think of until you give up and give them what they want, and it's usually money. It's legal blackmail. They can do it to anyone at anytime.
That struck me so true. This is exactly what happened to me earlier this week. I was talking with a new lawyer and wanted an estimate for the work ahead. He had me send him the contract I needed help with. He called me back after reviewing the contact and estimated 5-6 hours of work (less than $2,000). I agreed to move forward and we setup a face-to-face. Five minutes into the face-to-face, he revealed his new estimate was $75,000 and more. I asked WTF? After hearing his b.s. response, I got up from my chair, said I'm leaving and left.
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My orange juice says that I can earn 10 Aeroplan Miles. The fine print say details inside. Really? I'll report back when I'm finished consuming the contents.
My basement just flooded. Looks like the toilet overflooded. Fortunately it wasn't blocked, so it's only water.
from Jay Leno's Tonight Show. Funny.
I can't believe Milli Vanillli did this commercial. I guess if you can't laugh at yourself...
It appears that today is another one of those days that we thank Dave for inventing blogs.
iBLOGthere4iTHANKDAVE!
No, I didn't sell kbcafe.com. Yet!
EMI announced today that they will be selling DRM-free music on iTunes. This could be the end of DRM. The DRM-free music will cost $1.29 while the same DRM version will cost only $0.99. I suspect that most all users will continue to buy the DRM version and save the $0.30. DRM may not be dead yet, but I think it just caught a terminal disease.
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I fold. This April Fools joke is so good that I have to violate my sales agreement and post just one more time. Google has released hehe free broadband service accessible thru your .... toilet. You can also get packages delivered from Google Checkout directly thru the sewage network.