The internet is undoubtedly teaming with condolences, grieving and other information as it comes in regards to the passing of Steve Jobs today. An avid Mac user & tech industry girl, myself, I wanted to share my condolences for this incredible loss. To family, friends, the technology industry and ultimately the world.
The world has certainly lost one of the most revolutionary and brilliant minds there has ever been. A profound thinker, and endless dreamer coupled with persistence and intelligence rivaled by few, he changed the face of technology and entertainment for eternity.
The commence speech from 2005 below highlights many of his admirable characteristics and he explains how he came from a college drop out (Which gives me hope as I am still -not by choice- BFA-less) to a multi-billion dollor corporation that changed the personal computer forever. Not to mention founding Pixar, which has brought me endless joy and hours of entertainment in the form of Finding Nemo, Kung-Fu Panda, and countless other childrens films.
“…death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new…Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
The first & last time I saw the Northern Lights I was about 12 or 13 years old. I had woken randomly in the middle of the night during the winter and out my window to saw the sky above the ridge behind my house glowing a vibrant red. Naturally, as anyone that age would, I had assumed that the gas station about 4 miles away in that direction has blown up and was currently projecting flames to an untold height.
After watching for a few more minutes I noticed the red sky was oscillating like a flag in the wind, and recalled from recent memory (at the time) the movie Balto, in which stupid Canadian huskies were frolicing around all stupid-like underneath the Aurora Bourealis.
All I can really say is “Jesus Christ, that’s is really fucking ugly.”
If you can imagine a special needs red headed stepchild had an… offspring (seems like an accurate term) with a naked mole rat then you might get an idea of what Skype 5.0 looks and behaves like.
I find it somewhat ironic that the first time Skype has had a major outage since 2007 is right around the holidays when everyone and their mother (literally) is making calls to their loved ones or people they feel obligated to stay in touch with if the end result is gifts, and when business is most certainly on the rise.
Over 20 millions calls are made per day and Skype says it’s been running at about half that volume due to a software malfunction… A very expensive one.
You can follow their blog for updates that states they’re slowly getting more people back online, which I’ve not experience so I’m convinced they’re a bunch of big fat liars. But in the meantime if you’re in desperate need to make that phone call check out other programs like Oovoo, or even AIM video chat.
Also to be noted: If you look at the word “Skype” long enough it begins to become an unintelligble mash of letters…
I learned an interesting fact over the past 24 hours, maybe a few come to think of it. iPhones, they’re definitely not waterproof. But for some reason my £10 piece of shit mobile has no issue withstanding a brief dunk in the toilet. Peeing is dangerous, for electronics; because they seem to have a penchant for ending up in the bowl (luckily in both cases it was post flush). The bright side of that, I’m now the proud owner of an iPhone4 that will, if my track record is any indication, end up in the toilet in the near future. I’m inventing a bungee for my phone, you know… the like the kind parents put their kids on so they don’t run off into the toilet? Yeah, those…
No, it’s not a house for human bathmats or puppets in disguise. It’s a 300 sq ft ‘house’ in Hong Kong that transforms into 24 different rooms. It’s pretty bad ass, although I think I’m too much of a pack rat to be able to live there with all my shit (aka books I’ve never read and probably wont, & a myraid of other trinkets and random crap that is completely unnecessary).
Today Verizon & Google came out of the closet with their Internet Policy Framework. In a nutshell, it’s their proposal to completely take over and filter the internet on the most epic scale imaginable. The internet will become a greyhound race full of dogs on steroids that are backed my multi-million dollar corporations vs you’re retarded lab that can’t tell his ass from your shoe. Essentially, if you don’t have money, you’re fucked (weird, isn’t it?). You can kiss all your satanic activist, all things Darwin related and porn sites goodbye, unless Comcast somehow gets a foot in the door on this deal.
Read about the whole thing here (because I’m too lazy to elaborate tonight). Though I will say I’m completely against online censorship. There are a million different sites you can find if you hate this one, or the next. Such as this, or this, or that.
RIP net neutrality. I better get back to work posting as much offensive shit as I can before my site is banned from teh interwebz! Either that, or get ready to move to Finland. ONWARD!
Here’s an interesting article from Forbes about Mac/Apple security or the possible lack thereof. Hacker Charlie Miller has managed to unearth Apple’s security issues, much to their annoyance we can all assume. Luckily these issues lie mainly within their own programs such as Safari, and Preview, to which you have many alternatives. You should be using Firefox anyway because Safari sucks, and Adobe Acrobat is better than Preview for obvious reasons…
Still standing by my theory that when computers begin to take over the world that we can definitely point the finger at Steve Jobs.
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The internet is undoubtedly teaming with condolences, grieving and other information as it comes in regards to the passing of Steve Jobs today. An avid Mac user & tech industry girl, myself, I wanted to share my condolences for this incredible loss. To family, friends, the technology industry and ultimately the world.
The first & last time I saw the 
I find it somewhat ironic that the first time Skype has had a 
I learned an interesting fact over the past 24 hours, maybe a few come to think of it. iPhones, they’re definitely not waterproof. But for some reason my £10 piece of shit mobile has no issue withstanding a brief dunk in the toilet. Peeing is dangerous, for electronics; because they seem to have a penchant for ending up in the bowl (luckily in both cases it was post flush). The bright side of that, I’m now the proud owner of an iPhone4 that will, if my track record is any indication, end up in the toilet in the near future. I’m inventing a bungee for my phone, you know… the like the kind parents put their kids on so they don’t run off into the toilet? Yeah, those…
Today Verizon & Google came out of the closet with their Internet Policy Framework. In a nutshell, it’s their proposal to completely take over and filter the internet on the most epic scale imaginable. The internet will become a greyhound race full of dogs on steroids that are backed my multi-million dollar corporations vs you’re retarded lab that can’t tell his ass from your shoe. Essentially, if you don’t have money, you’re fucked (weird, isn’t it?). You can kiss all your satanic activist, all things Darwin related and porn sites goodbye, unless 
Here’s an interesting article from Forbes about 
