Ah for as much as I love hacking on stuff, hacking M$ off of devices to replace it with Linux is truly the supreme ‘in your face Billy Boy’. I do it to anything just because it can be done, even if it yields less functionality, it’s still better.
Going to have to dig one of these guys up to to play with now..
Hacking the Microsoft MN-700 courtesy of Mindzeye.
Some great information here for all bloggers.
Found this post on BoingBoing and thought it beared repeating to get the info out there.
EFF’s magnificent Blogger’s Legal Guide (a guide to libel, employment law, copyright, trademark, journalist’s privilege and other issues as they related to blogging) has been converted to a couple of pocket-device formats — iSilo and Plucker. Now you can carry the guide around in your trousers!
I for one think this will be a great step forward, and should have been done a long time ago (makes filtering the trash so much easier). The only thing I see missing would be forcing all existing sites to move over, the bullshit trickery methods, ie… using typo’d domain names, names that a ‘normal’ person would key in to get somewhere whitehouse
From the AP:
NEW YORK - A red-light district tentatively cleared for construction on the Internet — the “.xxx” domain — is being billed by backers as giving the $12 billion online porn industry a great opportunity to clean up its act.
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A distinct online sector for the salacious, one with rules aimed at forbidding trickery, will reduce the chances of Internet users accidentally stumbling on porn sites, they argue. If only it were so simple:
Zoning in cyberspace has always been a daunting proposition, and participation in the porn domain will be voluntary. Critics wonder why “.xxx” got the OK at all when so many other proposals sit unaddressed, some for years.
Nearly five years after rejecting a similar proposal, the Internet’s key oversight body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, voted 6-3 this month to proceed with “.xxx.”
Overheard from a friend….
The entrance opens, two men dressed in pilots’ uniforms walk up the aisle. Both are wearing dark glasses, one is using a guide dog, and the other is tapping his way along the aisle with a cane. Nervous laughter spreads through the cabin, but the men enter the cockpit, the door closes, and the engines start up.
The passengers begin glancing nervously around, searching for some sign that this is just a little practical joke. None is forthcoming. The plane moves faster and faster down the runway, and the people sitting in the window seats realize they’re headed straight for the water at the edge of the airport territory. As it begins to look as though the plane will plough into the water, panicked screams fill the cabin.
At that moment, the plane lifts smoothly into the air. The passengers relax and laugh a little sheepishly, and soon all retreat into their magazines, secure in the knowledge that the plane is in good hands.
In the cockpit, one of the blind pilots turns to the other and says, “You know, Frank, one of these days, they’re gonna scream too late and we’re all gonna die.
English Springer Spaniel Puppy Update
Pup #2, now better known as Sophie (I guess that’s how it’s spelled….who knows), but she has been adopted, her new owners did not want to wait a moment longer than at all possible, no more rough and tumble time with the other pups, she went home Friday (at 6 1/2 weeks old). No big deal they have been weaned off of mothers milk and been eating solid food for weeks now… not to mention whatever little critters Momma may have brought them while we were not looking. But we sent along her 8 week injection and a couple doses of wormer to boot.
She’s going to a great home and will be one spoiled rotten puppy 
For more info on the litter jump over to Briar Patch Puppies. New updates pictures of the babies will be up soon, the present ones posted are at at 4 weeks, time is flying by so fast it’s hard to keep up with them. Growing like weeds and they’ve got needles for teeth, I’ve got a few perforated fingers to prove it too.
