I have not posted much of late. I had intended to post a lot of political stuff here but I really can’t get into it. Politics is just so disgusting. I am much more interested in posting about hobby projects I am working on. So that is the direction I am going to move in now.
In the coming months I hope to publish a few simple projects to get started.
Wednesday we lost an Industry leader and pioneer. I fear that he may not see a pioneer of his caliber again. From the early days of computers he defined the industry. Even with his departure he continued to be a pioneer in what ever he did. Upon his return to apple he continued to be a pioneer and boldly lead Apple from the verge of bankruptcy to a company with the a market cap greater than Exxon. He redefined music with i-tunes and the iPod. He defined what the smart phone is with the introduction of the iPhone. And created a new market with the iPad.
If the measure of a mans worth is all the lives he has touched and his deeds, then Steve Jobs was a great man. May his legacy live on.
My condolences go out to his wife, children, sisters and employees of Apple.
For more about Steve Jobs got to CNET News http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20116336-37/apple-co-founder-chairman-steve-jobs-dies
If you have been around on the net for a while you already know this. But, if you haven’t run across your spam filter is working well.
We get email like this all the time. The below email is typical of this kind of scam. What they want you to do is to click on the attachment and download it. However if you look closely at the icon you will notice that is shows a block in a clamp. This is the icon for a ZIP file. This is a compressed file. Since it is compressed the contents of the ZIP file are not decompressed to be scanned fine and slips past the Virus protection. This is useful if you are sending certain types of files that the virus scanners tend to block regardless of the nature of the file. (ie. a patch or batch file) In this case this is most likely malicious code. So beware of attached files.
This is a post notification
Post notification No.72166
The company could not deliver your package to your address.Your package has been returned to the Post Express office.The reason of the return is “Error in the delivery address”
Attention!Attached to the letter mailing label contains the details of the package delivery.Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our office
Thank you,Post Express Service.
Also in light of other security breaches, such as Epsilon. If you get an email from a company you do business with open another tab and go there directly and do not use the link in the email. Spammers now have you email address and know which companies you do business with. So just don’t be careful be paranoid.
Over the past couple days it has become apparent again that our President can not or will not lead. I am not saying blindly go running in like a certain previous administration seem to do. But to have a voice and react in an appropriate manner and not wait for polls or other countries to make up their mind before speaking.
Some recent examples of his failure to lead. After the deadly tsunami in japan he should have come out and said something. At least come out and say; Damn that is messed up and the United States Govt and Citizens are ready to help Japan. We will be working closely with Japan to help them every where we can. The back channels seemed alive but the figure head was absent until a week later.
The uprisings in Libya. The uprisings have been going on for weeks before he joined with European leaders and the Arab nations to come up with the UN No Fly Zone for Libya. He should have come out earlier and said; that he understands the people of Libya’s desire for change and that he would be working aggressively with the UN and Nato to come up with the appropriate plan of action. Instead He sat back and waited for everybody else to come up with something and them pulled the Me too card.
Going back to the BP disaster he did nothing to expedite the response to the Gulf. Oil Booms in warehouse where not mobilized. Help from other nations was refused. It was not till late in the crisis a foreign ship was allowed to scoop up oil. They cited certain acts to justify the in action but I am sorry as a leader my first job would to find out where the Government is hindering the clean up and if I could not suspend the interference directly I could twist the Congress and Senate arms until something got done. You would be amazed at how fast a Congress and Senate can get something done when you beat them over the head in the press.
I fear that we truly have a “Community Organizer” for President. And this makes me sad. We expect to much from him. A community organizer just shows up and takes notes of other people’s ideas. Once a consensus is reached and there is no opposition he then announce what has been decided. At no point in this does a community organizer bring any ideas to the table that is everybody elses job.
I really do not know what to do. We are stuck with him until the next election. It is hard to feel ok with our reputation in the world when we sit on the bench and wait for others to decide for us. We have been turned into the the nation that is so desperate to belong to the group that we hold back and let the group decide and then jump in with our support. Nobody ever likes that kid.
P.S. We have done the No Fly Zone in Libya before against the same leader. See how well it worked we are doing the same useless thing again. This seems to be a Failure to Learn as well.
They are at it again. They (the US Govt) wants to be able to shut the internet down in a “Cyber Emergency”. Of course they are going to reword the name to make us think that it is not the internet kill switch and it will have no provision for judicial review.
Why is the Internet Kill Switch (IKS) a bad thing. Do you do pay bills, shop, research, use VOIP, Email or any other activity that would come to a halt with the internet such as use of a Smart phone. I have to ask what kind of a cyber emergency justifies the followng:
Shut down online banking services
Stop data transfere of businesses & individuals
Shutting down Email communication
Shutting down online commerce
Turning off VOIP and Phone services that rely on the Internet
Stop business from reordering inventory
Stop delivery of Online news content
Stop political discussion online.
This is just the tip of the very large Ice Berg. In fact here is my challenge post a comment of what else you think will be impacted by the Govt shutting down the internet.
Well, Finally I-Phone comes to Verizon. Coming 2-11-2010. Very little Change in Stock price at announcement. I-Phone fans enjoy the new carrier choice.
