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Verse & OpenID

Author: Aasemoon

20 Feb

I love OpenID. =) I really do… I guess it’s obvious by now. I’ve always been intrigued by the idea, so much so that a couple of years ago I started serving my own OpenID on Aasemoon.com.

Recently I decided it was time Verse supported OpenID, and after a few evenings of playing around with the PHP OpenID libraries, now it pretty much does that. The thing is, I have no idea how well this works. A lot of testing has to be done and I’m certain that there are still tons of bugs… but I guess I’ll perfect it in time. =) Also, you can now use your Verse profile as your OpenID, in other OpenID enabled website. So yes Verse serves OpenIDz too now. =) Or at least as far as my testing of it goes….

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Filed under: Aasemoon, Coding, OpenID, Programming, Projects, Web, Web Development, Website, Weeee =D

Chocolate & Me!

Author: Aasemoon

19 Feb

Not only do I have a terrible chocolate addiction, but it’s also quite well known to everyone… and who’d know that better than my mom? Here’s what she did recently…. Need I say more? =P

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Filed under: Aasemoon, Baaroon, Chocolate, Weeee =D

Cell-phones & Recycled Plastic

Author: Aasemoon

16 Feb

I just saw a commercial about a cell-phone company on TV, and the supposed “high-light” of the commercial was that some of their cell-phone models are made partially of recycled plastic. And some teenager girl was shouting about how using the recycled material can help us “save trees”. And this was the part of it when I felt a rush of blood to my brain….

So the bloody cell-phone company sells cell-phones that boil human brain cells, and they pride themselves with recycled plastic and saving trees? Giving people cancer and supposedly saving trees?

Is it just me, or is this completely bizarre…..

Hmmmm…..

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Filed under: Bizarre, Electronics, Horrible, Technology, Thoughts, TV

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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Filed under: Facebook, Internet, Messengers, Trillian, Web

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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Filed under: Entertainment, Reviews, Sci-Fi, TV

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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Filed under: Funny, Sci-Fi, TV

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