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Hypocrits About 1 hour after I wrote my previous post today about Yahoo! helping the Chinese un-democratic government in prosecuting political dissdents, the news came in that Skype (the voip company) also has caved in to Chinese laws and is actively censoring text messages that Chinese Skype users are sending one another: The Ebay-owned company admitted its joint-venture partner on the mainland, Tom.com, had edited messages containing words considered politically sensitive by the Chinese government. Among them were “Falun Gong”, the outlawed religious sect, and “Dalai Lama”, the Buddhist leader of disputed Tibet, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. The Ebay-owned […]

Online KGB Obviously politics and technology do not mix that well: Reporters without Borders reports once again how Yahoo! has helped the Chinese police to gather evidence to implicate another political dissident. Reporters Without Borders obtained a copy of the verdict in the case of Jiang Lijun who whas sentenced to four years in prison in November 2003 for writing online pro-democracy articles. The copy of the verdict shows clearly that Yahoo! helped the Chinese police to identify him. It is the third case that proves Yahoo! was involved. In this case Yahoo! handed an e-mail to the authorities from […]

Ever wonder why copiers break? Well, here is the answer. Funny as hell!

What’s the use? Some interesting figures today on the world of blogging: according to David Siffry, co-founder founder and ceo of Technorati, there is a huge growth in the amount of blogs. Apparantly Technorati tracks about 35.3 Million weblogs, and that figure doubles about every 6 months! Wow! The total amount of blogs is about 60 times bigger than three years ago. When you ponder the figures, you can see where the hype has kicked in. Out of all the blogs created only 55% are still actively maintained after three months. So I would account the other 45% to those […]

Demon: Die! Die! Ok, so I have a LONG weekend because of Easter right? So off course I will do the usual Easter related stuff: have brunch with my family, watch some movies etc. etc. And – and this is something I was looking forward too – do some serious online gaming (Soldiers of Fortune 2 – still my favorite), download some music, movies etc… I even had some stuff in my queue to download (couple of movies etc..) So last night (actually this morning), I talked to my girlfriend until 4am. I wake up at 10am and decide to […]

‘Woz’ & Jobs On April 1st I already wrote about Apple’s 30th birthday. Most of that article was about Steve Jobs. But another important person who we should not overlook, is Steve Wozniak or – as his friends call him: ‘The Woz’ aka ‘The Wizard of Woz’. Unlike the other Steve (Jobs) the Woz does not like to go public that much. In fact he usually declines to give interviews. However, pending the publication of his biography this fall, called ‘I Woz’, he did grant The Seattle Times an interview. What I found interesting is the fact that Wozniak never […]

Like it or not! The last few years I have turned into an Apple fan. Not that I have bought any Apple gear (I simply think they are way overpriced), but I do use their products (Powerbook G4) and I do like(d) the way they conduct business and how innovative they are when it comes to marketing their products. So when I read about the darker sides of Apple’s business ethics I was actualy a bit upset. ZDnet reports about this case where Apple is sueing the proprietor of an online Blog for exposing ‘trade secrets’. Blog owner Jason D. […]

Bootcamp Just weeks after Narf2006 succeeded in booting XP on an Intel Mac, Apple came with it’s handy tool called Bootcamp and announced this is going to be a standard feature of Leopard, the next generation of OS X (way to go Steve!). After that it was just a matter of time until someone didn’t take ‘no’ for an answer and decided to have a go at the lastest Vista beta. As we all have heard by now, Vista will not support the new EFI protocol that has been implemented already on all Intel based Macs. EFI will replace the […]

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Teach me! What is it with teachers these days? I mean: since when has it become a fashion for hot teachers to tutor boys in their free time and give them some extra ‘sex education’? About two weeks ago we had a scandal in Holland were a school administratrator got caught in action with a 16-year old boy (I mean: literaly caught: the photos roamed the Dutch part of the Internet). And now we have this case of some 34-year old teacher from Delaware who is being accused of statuatory rape of a 13-year old boy (guess he got jeleaous?). […]