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I've kept my LJ account around so I can comment within the system, but I wanted to drop a quick note in here to let everyone know you can read my current blog at http://www.churchofthegeek.com
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So I've decided to move my blog over to the Blogger.com service. I haven't updated this in quite some time, and I figured a two month-or-so gap is as good a time as any to start fresh. Unfortunately Blogger doesn't have an import function yet, so all my old entries will have to remain here for the time being (LJ does allow you export, I just can't do much with the file until Blogger supports it).
Anyway, head over to http://jasonrallen.blogspot.com to check out the new digs. |
It's the end of an era....
"The last members of the original Winamp team have said goodbye to AOL and the door has all but shut on the Nullsoft era."
I've been using Winamp for almost 10 years. Granted, I will still continue to use it, but this really is a major event in the online community. The popularity of MP3 files can, arguably, be contributed to Winamp and its long time status as a free piece of software.
Just in case you didn't know, the geniuses at what was Nullsoft also created the P2P file sharing protocol Gnutella which is still heavily used by many pieces of software to this day. Basically if you're not using Kazaa (which is a spyware loaded piece of crap) then you're using a Gnutella client without knowing it.
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Why is it that stories like this one are on the frontpage of the BBC news but I can't find it ANYWHERE (other than NPR) on the major US news web sites?
58,000 absentee ballots have gone missing in Florida. The only statement to come from the US Post Office is "It's highly unlikely that 58,000 pieces of mail just went missing."
Now, I try not to promote one side of the election vs. another in my blog because I'm pretty moderate myself and I'm definitely in the "swing voter" group that both sides are practically begging for votes from. The fact of the matter is that Bush was elected in 2000 based on a margin of 537 votes (in Florida). Regardless of the names on those ballots, how do you think this will affect the election? Given the coverage this story is getting (which again is next to none) I highly doubt they'll even find them before we're all casting our votes and wondering if they'll be counted or not.
As much as I'd like to hope that in 5 days we'll have our president picked I can't help but think this is going to turn into the same mess we had 4 years ago. And who knows, Michigan could be the next Florida based on the polls.
Oh... wait... read the last paragraph in the link above. The mess has already begun. I guess I won't be leaving the house without a rain coat on lest I get covered in the political BS raining down from above:
Both the Democrats and Republicans have already begun filing lawsuits in states across the US, challenging different aspects of the election process.
I always thought that it would be years, even decades before the entertainment industry started making TV shows/movies/whatever that dealt with the 9/11 attacks, but it looks like I was wrong. I guess the time restriction for good taste has been bumped down to 3 years. Way to bring in that ad revenue folks (note: sarcasm detected).
Excellent article over at Wired today about how the Internet being used less and less for pornography and more for every day life. In case you weren't aware, it's a completely accurate statement when I say that porn is what drove the internet to where it is today. I'm not kidding here. This was also told to me, in class, by my profs at MSU.
Allerca will start offering hypoallergenic (by way of genetic modification) in 2007. Believe it or not (personally I think they'll beat their deadline).
If I don't post tomorrow then have a good weekend ya'll!!! |
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