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Buzz: Oops Goog did it AGAIN! xP

Author: Aasemoon

13 Feb

Oh come on! I mean… seriously? You have got to be joking!

For the life of me, I cannot believe how fast Google is jumping from one useless project to the next! It feels as if it was just yesterday when Google gave us all a not so sweet surprise with the half baked and hardly usable Google Wave. Now here they go again, this time with the Gwitter. How many of the same thing do we need anyway?

There’s about 50-billion micro blogging services out there right now, but of course Google has found a way to make the Gwitter stand out. You know what it is that all the rest of those services are missing? Well, they DON’T SUDDENLY MAKE YOUR PERSONAL DATA INTO PUBLIC DATA!! Haha, oh yes! Google’s new ridiculous Twitter clone is the only one out there to have a security hole / privacy breach of such magnitude! Upon activating Da Fuzz on your Google account, your connections list is the first to go public, followed by another load of data apparently. And even though you have the option to change that, the default makes your connections list and other pieces of data public without actually asking / waning you.

Of course at the first glance you may not notice the gravity of the situation.. in that case, I suggest you read this pleasantly straight forward article, nicely titled “F*ck You Google”, and you’ll suddenly get a better view of exactly what’s going on.

So, we have a brand new Google service, that doesn’t do anything new, doesn’t look anything particularly appealing, doesn’t involve any sort of innovation in anything except for magnificently breaching your privacy, and yet, people are, and will be, using it. Yay to the brave new world!

Cheers! =)

Update: Thanks to my good friend Knarfoo for sharing this interesting article. Another good description of the current state of Gwitter.

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Filed under: Google, Horrible, Internet, Reviews, Web

Facebook Chat + XMPP

Author: Aasemoon

13 Feb

Nice, really really nice! =) Facebook finally did it. FB chat supports XMPP now, and with the latest Trillian release, you can now use Trill’s Jabber / XMPP plug-in to connect to FB chat. All you have to do now, is to first make sure you have the XMPP plug-in added to your Trill, then introduce a new Jabber account, and log on with yourusername@chat.facebook.com. And by the way the username part is case sensitive… as in you have to enter everything in lower case for it to work. I set this up yesterday, and it works like a charm. =) Yaaaaaay!

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Me & Caprica

Author: Aasemoon

12 Feb

Long story short: It turns out I _DISLIKE_ Caprica just about as much as I _DISLIKE_ BSG. Ahemn. Yeah. =P

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Supernatural HaHa…

Author: Aasemoon

11 Feb

“6 degrees of heaven bacon” – Dean Winchester

Hahahahaha I found that quote from this week’s Supernatural pretty darn amusing! =D

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Avatar : I Cried A River!

Author: Aasemoon

10 Feb

So as usual I’m pretty late to the whole movie gig, but oh well, I guess it’s better late than never eh? Specially when it comes to a movie such as this.. I couldn’t possibly miss this one. =)

So we went to see Avatar last night… and I can’t begin to put into words how impressed and moved I am by this movie. Would you have seen me in the theatre though, you’d have been able to tell for yourself. Specially if you would touch the scarf around my neck… lets just say that if was completely wet. I had tears all over my face for the bigger half of the movie. So much beauty, so much emotions… ahhhh…. [And I have to add, it wasn’t just me.. the company was weeping too! 😉 ]

This movie sends so many deeply meaningful messages through. There’s so much to think about here. And I have to admit, even though I knew I was watching a movie and not something real, there were times that I just wanted to explode with emotions. I couldn’t help totally falling in love with the “Na’vi” people. And there were times I really wanted to punch that sodding “Colonel Miles Quaritch” hard enough in the jaw to completely redecorate his face. And guess what… finally someone managed to picture a race of alien beings that are in fact prettier than humans. Much prettier that is. =D I mean…. oh man…. BLUE….. =D 😉

Now I’m going to wait for the Blu-ray, and the soundtrack CD. It’s certainly a completely different experience when you’re watching it on IMAX 3D, and feeling like the tree branch is about to splash you in the face… but the Blu-ray would still be quite welcome, and better than nothing. 😉 But what I really wish for, is a couple [or more] of sequels. Not that it seems very likely at all…but it’s still ok to wish for it, right? =P

Aaaaaaahhhhh….. So dreamy…….

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Filed under: Amazing, Art, Beautiful, Entertainment, Movies, Reviews

LabVIEW Package for Robotics Design

Author: Aasemoon

7 Feb

This is something that I’m very much looking forwards to getting my hands on. It could very well be a life saver for me.

“On Monday, National Instruments announced one such platform. It’s called LabView Robotics. In addition to LabView, the popular data-acquisition application, the package includes a bunch of tools specific to robotics. It can import codes in various formats (C, C++, Matlab, VHDL), offers a library of drivers for a wide variety of sensors and actuators, and has modules for implementation of real-time and embedded hardware. NI says engineers could use the package to both design and run their robotic systems.”

IEEE Spectrum: National Instruments Introduces LabVIEW Package for Robotics Design

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Filed under: Coding, Electronics, Engineering, Programming, Robotics, Software, Technology

Office 2010 :: The Movie

Author: Aasemoon

5 Feb

Hahaha.. look what I just found on Channel 9 forums. This is pretty amusing. =D And, well, self explanatory.

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Filed under: Funny, Microsoft

LOST Seaon 6 Premiere, and Sayid’s IRANIAN passport!!

Author: Aasemoon

5 Feb

So I just watched Lost season 6 premiere on Space channel, and it was simply mind blowing. =) LOOOOVVVEED IT! As I expected, it caused much more questions than giving any answers… and that’s exactly what we love about Lost, isn’t it? 😉

At the end of season 5, after Ben’s trial, I knew with a 100% certainty that John Locke the new, the smoke monster, and the black dude were all the same. It was very clear given how he manipulated Ben to kill Jacob. But I’m wondering, what the heck is his name? =D And where’s “home” that he wants to go to? And what happens no that Jacob’s dead? And what did Juliet mean by “it worked”? And .. and… and… and… I could go on forever.

But you know what? I also have another really BIG question that I really have to bring up here… Sayid Jarrah is supposed to be Iraqi right? Then can somebody tell me, why on earth he has an IRANIAN PASSPORT????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m half Persian. I was born in Iran. I have an Iranian passport. I know what an Iranian passport looks like. Below is a screenshot of the scene showing Sayid’s passport [thanks to YouTube!], right beside a photo of the first page of my Iranian passport. As you can see, it’s exactly the same. [Click to see the full size.]

Something tells me that this is not a part of the Lost mystery plot. So I’d say… it’s a rather sad mistake. Iraq and Iran are 2 different countries.. a fact that SOOOO many people seem to not realize.

Anyhow… aside from the above booboo, I really enjoyed the first episode, and I can’t wait for more…. ah… please… moooorrre…. moooorrrrrrr Lost… MOOOORRRRE… =))))))))))

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Filed under: Amazing, Entertainment, LOST, Sci-Fi, TV

Google Code Blog: A proposal to extend the DNS protocol

Author: Aasemoon

2 Feb

On one hand, I find the ideas here extremely interesting. On the other hand, I’m not feeling to well about the kind of information Google can have on a user’s every single move. Hmmmmm….. still a very intriguing proposal.

“Today a group of DNS and content providers, including Neustar/UltraDNS and Google are publishing a proposal to extend the DNS protocol. DNS is the system that translates an easy-to-remember name like www.google.com to a numeric address like 74.125.45.104. These are the IP addresses that computers use to communicate with one another on the Internet. By returning different addresses to requests coming from different places, DNS can be used to load balance traffic and send users to a nearby server. For example, if you look up www.google.com from a computer in New York, it may resolve to an IP address pointing to a server in New York City. If you look up www.google.com from the Netherlands, the result could be an IP address pointing to a server in the Netherlands. Sending you to a nearby server improves speed, latency, and network utilization.”