I feel kind of sad at the events that have been occurring recently. The whole thing began when some people decided to publish cartoons mocking other people’s religion. While I think that freedom of expression is important – after all I have this blog here and like to write – I don’t think that its…

Lenovo’s decision to remove the Trackpoint buttons from the latest models of Thinkpad notebooks was widely and rather intensely disliked by people who have long used and loved Thinkpad notebooks. There was even a funny video overdub done of Hitler freaking out when he finds out that the Trackpoint buttons were removed. Most people were…

America’s a great country If you’re an annoying, retarded aggro shit And want to drill a hole in your muffler And abuse everyone around you If you want to operate outrageously loud Landscaping equipment which terrorizes And violently abuses delicate Precious and vulnerable living beings If you want to be a loudmouth Banal hypocritical fuck…

Owncloud has been updated to version 7.0.4 today. Time to aptitude update && dselect install if you’re running a Debian Owncloud server. Or if you have installed cron-apt and configured it to notify you by mail, then you will already know this!

AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don’t Have To from mushon on Vimeo. What advertisers and other entities on the Internet who track users do is sickening. Even though there have attempts to have an above-the-board method by which people can legitimately opt-out of being tracked, those efforts have failed massively as greed and grubbiness…

Rank Country Score Ten-year change 1 Switzerland 87.67 0.80% 2 Luxembourg 83.29 3.02% 3 Australia 82.40 2.32% 4 Singapore 81.78 0.94%   Full list at epi.yale.edu “Home / 2014 EPI / Country Rankings” I lived in country #6 for a year and I have to say what a difference from country #33.

The U.S. economy has long been powered in part by the nation’s ability to attract the world’s most educated and skilled people to its shores. But a new study of the worldwide migration of professionals to the U.S. shows a sharp drop-off in its proportional share of those workers – raising the question of whether…

The global average temperature over land and ocean surfaces for January to October 2014 was the highest on record, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It said October was the hottest since records began in 1880. source: wmo.int; “News, 21 November 2014, January-October temperatures break records“

This light only costs $30. I had the previous model to this light, the HL-EL220 which duly got ripped-off my bicycle a couple days ago. It was an excellent light with extremely long battery life and was very bright. This one is almost identical – the shape is slightly different but it still has the…