DATE: 04/07/2008 18:14:05 / MOOD: other

Hi guys, I'm going to be taking some time off. Ive been ill and the voice recognition software Ive been using isn't working with the new version for some reason. You all have my email, sorry to be so abrupt but I'm not really up to spending much time on line these days - best of luck for everyone. Doc

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DATE: 02/06/2008 21:07:11 / MOOD: other

Sending a few photos to your friends is a snap. We've all done it -- just drop the pictures in an e-mail and hit send. But what if you want to send a 25 megabyte audio file? Or a package of hi-res photos that tops 80MB? Or a 690MB video file?

Pando is an innovative and free P2P application that lets you send large files to your friends over e-mail. It doesn't use e-mail for the actual file delivery (that part is handled by a simple, downloadable client) but your friends are notified that you want to share with them over e-mail, and they get a small e-mail attachment they can click on to launch the client and initiate the transfer.

To share a file, you must have the Pando client (a free download for Mac OS X, Windows 2000, XP and Vista) installed. Open the client, drag and drop the file or folders you want to share and enter the e-mail addresses of your friends you want to deliver it to. Pando sends e-mails to your group of friends inviting them to share with a small .pando file attached. They click on the file and (presuming they have the free client as well) Pando launches and the sharing begins.

There are also add-ons for Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL and Hotmail. Users can send attachments normally or as Pando-ized attachments without leaving their regular e-mail client.

Pando uses BitTorrent for the P2P sharing, but in our tests, the term "BitTorrent" wasn't mentioned at any time during the experience. So, it's perfect for sharing with people who aren't hip to BitTorrent or who have less-than-working knowledge up how to set up and share trackerless torrents. You also get BT's blazing-fast speeds when there are multiple clients sharing the same set of files at once.

The only barriers are the fact that the client needs to be installed on both ends to work, and the free version of the client displays ads along the bottom, which may turn some users off.

You can use Pando's free service to share any files up to 1GB. Since the shared files are hosted by Pando for a week or two, you should be careful if you're using it to share copyrighted materials. In a phone interview, Pando told Wired.com that it complies with DMCA takedown notices if it receives them.

Pando's e-mail service is its bread and butter -- and rightly so, since most of us still get away with sending e-mail attachments whenever we can, only resorting to other methods when our attachments are rejected for being too big -- but the company also has tools for sending files to friends over IM and by little links that can be embedded in web pages.

We've written about Pando before. See the Wired News story about the P4P Working Group to read how the company is using edge networking concepts to ease the bandwidth crunch created by sharing large files.

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DATE: 01/14/2008 22:28:06 / MOOD: horny

KnickerPicker - Online dressing room. Bada Bing!

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DATE: 01/06/2008 08:52:29 / MOOD: in love

WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT TO RELEASE ITS HIGH-DEFINITION DVD TITLES EXCLUSIVELY IN THE BLU-RAY DISC FORMAT BEGINNING LATER THIS YEAR Decision Made in Response to Strong Consumer Preference for Format

(January 4, 2008 - Burbank, CA) - In response to consumer demand, Warner Bros. Entertainment will release its high-definition DVD titles exclusively in the Blu-ray disc format beginning later this year, it was announced today by Barry Meyer, Chairman & CEO, Warner Bros. and Kevin Tsujihara, President, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group.

"Warner Bros.' move to exclusively release in the Blu-ray disc format is a strategic decision focused on the long term and the most direct way to give consumers what they want," said Meyer. "The window of opportunity for high-definition DVD could be missed if format confusion continues to linger. We believe that exclusively distributing in Blu-ray will further the potential for mass market success and ultimately benefit retailers, producers, and most importantly, consumers."

Warner Home Video will continue to release its titles in standard DVD format and Blu-ray. After a short window following their standard DVD and Blu-ray releases, all new titles will continue to be released in HD DVD until the end of May 2008.

"Warner Bros. has produced in both high-definition formats in an effort to provide consumer choice, foster mainstream adoption and drive down hardware prices," said Jeff Bewkes, President and Chief Executive Officer, Time Warner Inc., the parent company of Warner Bros. Entertainment. "Today's decision by Warner Bros. to distribute in a single format comes at the right time and is the best decision both for consumers and Time Warner."

"A two-format landscape has led to consumer confusion and indifference toward high definition, which has kept the technology from reaching mass adoption and becoming the important revenue stream that it can be for the industry," said Tsujihara. "Consumers have clearly chosen Blu-ray, and we believe that recognizing this preference is the right step in making this great home entertainment experience accessible to the widest possible audience. Warner Bros. has worked very closely with the Toshiba Corporation in promoting high definition media and we have enormous respect for their efforts. We look forward to working with them on other projects in the future."

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DATE: 01/01/2008 23:43:00 / MOOD: bored

Balls.Of.Fury - **

Breach - N/A

Captivity - **

Chuck.And.Larry - N/A

Death.Proof - **

Disturbia - ***

I.Am.Legend - ****

Live.Free.or.Die.Hard - N/A

Mr.Brooks - ****

Next - ****

No.Country.For.Old.Men - ***

Planet.Terror - N/A

Premonition - N/A

Shoot.Em.Up - **

The.Hills.Have.Eyes.2 - N/A

The.Kingdom - N/A

The.Reaping - N/A

Vacancy - ***

 

N/A means I haven't seen it yet but its on the table. No Country for Old Men was a cam screener so I cant really give it a fair review but I will say this... I have been incredibly disappointed with the endings of almost every movie Ive seen this summer. Some were surprising dogs and some were surprisingly good.

These are just the movies Ive seen this... er last month. If you've seen anything exceptional this year - Pass it on.

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DATE: 01/01/2008 23:23:25 / MOOD: bored

But at least I covered all the birthdays for the year in one day. Actually kind of convenient.

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DATE: 12/29/2007 15:36:47 / MOOD: happy

I bought a newer Ford F-250 crew cab and returned to the dealer the next day because I couldn't get the radio to work.  The salesman  explained that the radio was voice activated. "Nelson," the salesman said to the radio.  The radio replied,"Ricky or Willie?" "Willie!" he continued and "On The Road Again" came from the speakers.  Then he said, "Ray Charles!" and in an instant "Georgia On My Mind" replaced Willie Nelson. I drove away happy, and for the next few days, every time I'd say, "Beethoven," I'd get beautiful classical music, and if I said, "Beatles, I'd get one of their awesome songs . Yesterday, a couple ran a red light and nearly creamed my new truck, but I swerved in time to avoid them.  I yelled, "Idiots!" Immediately the French National Anthem began to play, sung by Jane Fonda and Barbara Streisand, backed up by Michael Moore and The Dixie Chicks, with John Kerry on bass guitar, Hillary on guitar, Al Gore on drums, Dan Rather on harmonica, Nancy Pelosi on tambourine, Harry Reid on spoons, Bill Clinton on sax, and Ted Kennedy on Scotch. Man, I just LOVE this truck!!!

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DATE: 12/22/2007 19:19:16 / MOOD: full of life



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DATE: 12/22/2007 19:12:15 / MOOD: other

 

The picture shows that this soldier has been thru Survival School and learned his lessons well. He's giving the sign of "coercion" with his left hand. These hand signs are taught in survival school to be used by POW's as a method of posing messages back to our intelligence services who may view the photo or video. This guy was obviously being coerced into shaking hands with Hillary Clinton. It's ironic how little she knew that he would so inform us about the photo---perhaps because she's never understood our military to begin with.

 

 

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