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Monthly Archive for August, 2006
Misconception and paranoia are in vogue constantly about the next generation. This lays out 7 things media loves to blab about teens and the Internet. Short and easy, to the point
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Check to the right and down a little. I added a links catagory for galleries. Right now just two. Some day, I will either work on a grand flickr upload or at least a unified hub for that junk. That is what the media link on the front page is for but time is a little short as of right now.
I am currently using the flash theme from Lightroom, an Adobe beta project. I love the program but the web export is still sucks. I have moved my entire photo library over, especially RAW photos. It is easier and much quicker. I am still double importing though, into both iPhoto and Lightroom. Eventually the beta will no longer be free and I will have to pay. Ah!
What I will be doing is moving back to JAlbum. It is free and has much more flexibilty in creating web galleries, mailny because it is a dedicated gallery generator. It uses a self contained java script for its fancier galleries. I have had reports of the Flash plugin not working well with others, mainly at work where firewalls tend to get a little cranky at downloading and installing strange goodies.
I will be adding the old galleries soon.
The retards we have so dutifully elected has decided to ban social sites, such as myspace, in order to protect our children from online predators. Deleting Online Predators Act, or DOPA, is much more clever in name than substance. While the cause maybe noble but the approach is as dumb and incompetent as the whole lot. Here is why
- Redundancy. Schools and libraries already employ filters, required by various legaslation. Other methods work just as well. Due to a diligent IS staff, myspace is rerouted to Barney in his purple glory. Constantly monitoring and filtering works. Students study more than play anyway.
- Precision surgery with a broad sword. Banning sites that include social networking such as profiles includes many useful sites, News sites like Slashdot and Digg rely on user input. Amazon and Ebay use profiles for commerce. Teachers, librarians and support staff often use these sites to the benefit of students and alike.
- Freedom of Speech. While a High School kid is refused some of the rights at school but adults or students over 18 are afforded that right. Or at least last I checked. The sweeping bans on sites I mentioned before lead this to instant challenge.
- Get them at home. Come on idiots. The predators get them while they are upstairs on the new Sony Vaio or Macbook you just walked and purchased for “school”. The untold hours spent chatting with friends doesn’t happen at school but at home. Move the computer into the living room and simple internet filters for home PC’s make this useless.
What part of this law deletes an online predators. At what point to the politicians stop trying to write laws to control rampant technological development and begin to understand it and work with it.
Other thoughts on this: TechCrunch, ZDNet, Learning Now
It seems that my beloved MDD G4 is beginning to show signs of a long needed retirement. Constant hardware issues and I am afraid it will continue till it breathes it’s last breathe. Then I flip to the latest dreams of WWDC’s offerings. Ah, a new Intel desktop would be wonderful. But work to the rescue. Tomorrow, I am finishing up my PO for a new Intel Macbook. White of course (the school system would frown on the extra $200) butat least the 2.0 Ghz with the superdrive. Benchmarks kill what I got now. Maybe I can mooch a little.
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