My head hurts

I've been thinking about a formula for my current project all night. Basically it's a simple way of organizing websites internal links. Many of you know that when you create websites you might have many vars to have proper usability. Now, my idea is to make a simple unpredictable formula similar to tinyurl. The idea is that a website url ending file.php?action=asd&id=1&user=username will be ending like file.php?ihgt54i

The idea is not to use any tables, so this method could be used for many things. If anyone has a solution, mail me, please!

forget the pimping and love Firefox 3

So I decided to start swapping things. You probably have heard of the paper clip to a house deal in so and so many swaps. Ah well, i decided to start doing it as well. So i put this Nissan Micra I have on a website :) I will have to take some pictures but else go and offer me anything in the same or higher value.

so go and have a look: here.

Anyhow, my goal would be to get a really nice yacht, possibly a multihull so i could enjoy being free :) But this is not all. I also would like a house in a coastal region (either Tacoma near seattle, US or Torbay area in Devon). For this matter i'll find something else to swap:) Sure I will keep things posted here.

In a complete other matter now! Firefox 3 Beta 4 is out! And I really like it. I really really do. Now, with KDE4 and Firefox 3 coming out, this definitely marks a new era in UNIX/Linux like systems. It has been made more and more user-friendly and more and more in a way so newbies can have a go. I personally have used Linux for almost 10 years now and learned about it in the really early stages with Redhat 5 for example. Compared to then, things have been made more and more easier so almost everyone can manage a Linux desktop.

J

Time to Pimp my ride!

Well, the thing is, i got a nice Nissan Micra for free from a nice lad and i thought this is the best opportunity to keep the busines including the car at a low cost. So I need your help world! Help me to pimp my ride.

Here's the deal: I need about £500 to get the car road legal. I will pay for the insurance but i need help to get the car on the road. In return I will put ads (with whatever you want) on the car. For every £1 of your support you'll get 1 square cm add space on the car. I will also send you a printable certificate through email confirming the donation and givin the guarantee that the ads will be on the car for a minimum of 6 months.

Hereby, this is not a money making scheme. I will not use the money otherwise. All the money will go towards the car. I will personally use the car for 6 months and then will give it away free of charge to someone who needs it more then I do. I accept paypal payments to jaan@vibedb.com towards the project. Thanks for your attention, more information and pictures coming soon!

ahti-Phorm petition

Please, if you are a resident in the UK, sign up.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ispphorm/

Last month there were some new about Phorm buying userdata from ISP-s.

t will not be "injecting" anything into your internet connection, as some commenters on our previous stories have suggested. Phorm's Open Internet Exchange (OIX) is an online advertising broker service that, just like DoubleClick, matches advertisers with publishers. For both these parties, the closer the match the better: advertisers reach the people they're most interested in, who are more likely to click on the ad, which means the publisher will get more money.

For users who don't opt out, the way the system works is much more clear (see "Active mode" slide). Hit a link in your browser and the HTTP request will be intercepted by the ACE and rerouted to Phorm's Anonymiser. Having hijacked the request, the Anonymiser can then set a tracking cookie, which it keeps hold of.

Without a response, the browser resubmits its request for the web page you want to visit. It is again rerouted to Phorm, but only as far as the F5 hardware, which bounces it on to the website you originally wanted, but also sends a copy of the request to Phorm's profiler kit.

The website reruns the content you want, which is again intercepted by the ACE. A copy of the page contents is sent to the Profiler, this time with the cookie in tow. If the publisher of the page is a member of the OIX, keywords in the page can be used to target ads. Finally the page is served up on your screen, and if everything is worked correctly, the browser and the user should be none the wiser.

This is just wrong and has to be stopped!

More information: here

BBC has a new website ...

... and i like it. The new design does the site really good. It's more easier to use and lot more frendly to the eye. Keep it up!

J

How to describe democracy in UK

I don't know how it works in Estonia but over here we have a parliamentary democracy. The word parliament comes from the French verb Parlez - to talk. And that what happens - they talk about democracy - thats all. They never
implement it.

We get a limited set of candidates to vote for. Anyone trying to be independent gets a £10,000 fine for interfering with the status quo. To run for parliament you have to be a long standing member of a political group who's ideas are already laid out in a thing called the manifesto just in case you thought freedom of thought was part of a democracy.

In case of any outbreaks of independent (democratic) thought once elected we have a system of whips who can stop any MP's career in its tracks and so keep them under control. And if that fails the 'free press' (owned and managed by big business) will be called in to destroy them.

Whomever gets elected is then advised by a thing called the lobby which is a way for business or other wealthy organisations to get their point of view into government - in a democracy it would be one person one vote so business would have no business in government. But that would reduce corruption and so is not in the parliamentarians interest.

To come back to software the lobby is there to ensure that business makes a profit from government. Anyone with any technical knowledge is sidelined so that the government can be bribed - sorry advised - by those with the loudest voice - ie those with the largest amount of money to spend or gain. Its of little interest to the government to follow the cheapest route as the press and the courts will be used to ensure that it becomes a lot more expensive. And as there is more money to be gained by repeatedly selling software that doesn't work than allowing a twelve year old to write a fully functioning CMR system in an afternoon that will work for eternity then the former solution is, of course, the one thats taken.

So remember a parliamentary democracy talks about democracy and doesn't implement it. Its an oxymoron - like 'free market economy' - markets were invented to gain control of the economy and prevent it being free!

Thanks Tom :)

Blogshares scavenger thingie

Well, here we go so this is my answer/post to the BlogShares scavenger contest. I chose the simpsons theme. All images have been foung through google so I havent edited any of them.

1. A man in a kilt either outdoors or at a workplace.


Yeah!

2. A plane in the process of landing.


Ok, it is on the ground but still driving, hope this counts :)

3. SubWolf surrounded by women.


First, find SubWolf, then count the women in the image :)

4. Dave's mom in combat boots.


Well, as Marge is wearing trousers we could imagine that she's wearing combat boots

5. Two people knitting towards each other on the same project.

Sadly no image, did not find anyone knitting

6. Ducks in a waterscape scene. (bonus for most ducks).


Got the waterscape and the ducks are in the foam ... really ...

7. Someone surrounded by coffee cups.

Well, it is hard to fund someone surrounded by coffee cups :(

8. A pink elephant.


Feel free to tune your monitor to get the elephant pink ... for some reasons almoast all screens are not calibrated correctly ....

9. A woman holding a Newcastle (it's a brand of beer).


All three of them are holding a bottle but because of the ad campaign for duff, they could not show the bottles

10. Larger than life animal sculpture (extra points for ridiculous size / subject).


a bear is good enough

11. Someone asleep at their terminal.


Homer :)

12. An ass with a hat on it.



Well, as let's bend the rules, a little, top one has the hat, bottom ona got the ass :)

13. A hot air balloon in flight.


enlarge and see it yourself ... moes :)

14. A cell phone logged into B$.


I'm sure he's buying shares on B$

15. A wild animal (cannot be at a conventional zoo).


Patty and selma in the back as a dragon is a good example of a wild animal :)


Still, some images missing, if i can, i'll update


ooh ooh ooh, an the flag: the australian one then (simpsons version)

Linux on iPhone

This would be really interesting if someone would actually manage to do it

http://code.google.com/p/iphone-linux/

sadly no code yet ... but I keep my hopes up :)

J

I'm a tab maniac

Well yes, I admit it ... anyway, there is a really good firefox add-on available called Taboo. The idea is to save tabs for later use, sort of like a bookmark thingie but even better.

If you keep tons of tabs open because you want to continue reading them later, Taboo is for you. Taboo lets you save a page for later (taking a screenshot, and using the Session Saver code to remember scroll location and form fields).

Enjoy!
J