A Peculiar Blog

First, I’ll quote the “official” announcement that appeared on the Freenet support list this morning:
Freenet is a global peer-to-peer network designed to allow users to publish and consume information without fear of censorship. To use it, you must download the Freenet software, available for Windows, Mac, Linux and other operating systems. Once you [...]

Japan’s four main Internet provider organizations have gotten together and worked out an arrangement where they’re going to be cutting Internet access to people using the “WinNy” P2P file sharing program.
Their big reason for this is the big battle against piracy. They’re claiming that most of the files being traded by the 1.75 million [...]

According to an item on Wired, Some people in the music industry are working up a new plan to bilk people out of more money. It goes back to one Jim Griffin, a consultant in “digital strategy” for three of the four major “big content” music providers, and his suggestion that ISPs collect a [...]

Not too long ago I discovered a new plugin that I’ve really come to like called “MinimizeToTray”. It’s available both the for the Thunderbird email client and for Firefox web browser.
What it does is simply that it allows Firefox / Thunderbird to appear as an icon in the system tray next to the clock [...]

I’m thinking that the people running the MPAA need to get their story straight because what they’ve been saying lately sounds like they belong in a drug rehab facility.
Why? Because on the one hand, they’ve been ranting for years now about how online piracy is costing them humongous amounts of money. Yet at the [...]

“Sneaker-net” is a term from back a few years when files would be moved from one computer to another by carrying ‘em around on 5 1/4 inch floppies. Back in those days Internet connections weren’t very common. Nor were local networks. If you were online those days it was by way of [...]

Anyone that knows me or has been reading my stuff for any length of time knows that I’m not now nor have I ever been a fan of the Democratic party and their goals & general way of doing things. However I’ve got to say that I’m very much in favor of the kind [...]

Freenet users: I’ve updated the seednodes.ref.zip file that I keep available on my “unofficial freenet alternative download page”
For those who prefer to get it within freenet itself here’s the key:
CHK@JithgPJCnK6JBPWOZimPXlOyQXYUAwI,p9LVPGPIWedHtWI8ryJX8A/seednodes.ref.zip
(for this link to work you must be running Freenet 0.5)
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After seeing the pictures of the Flood of ‘08 that I took recently, I’ve decided that it’s past time to retire the ancient Polaroid Digital 320 that I’m using now which is limited to 320 x 240 and no zoom, optical or digital. This thing doesn’t even have a flash, which means if [...]

If you’ve paid any attention at all to weather related news in the last few days, or if you live in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and a few other states then you’re aware of the frog strangling monster of a rainstorm that has been hammering people for days.
This morning since it was pretty much [...]