Orkut invites and online communities

It seems that the online community word is growing like a weed. (Pardon the lame analogy there.)

So here's what I thank of the ones I've got into so far.

Friendster: nice and easy to use. The invite function makes it easy to invite your friends. But that's for people that you already know. If your looking to meet new people your going to be looking through about 1,000,000 or so. But it is free.

Whizspark: This is a small one, but I like it because it's small. To me, meeting NEW folks is what the net is about and this place makes it easy to do just that. It does require some tinkering with to learn the ends and outs. But you can post a link on your site to have messages sent directly from there to you. Nice! I'm keeping an eye on this one.

Two others that I haven't been able to get into yet or

1.) Microsoft's Wallop. Which is part of their Social Computing Group project. It's invites only, and will, knowing Microsoft, cost you a little bit for full access.

2.) Google's Orkut at Orkut.com. I'm a google head, OK! I want this one as bad as I wanted gmail, but can't get my hands on an invite as of yet. It's not easy! They are extremely hard to come by, more so than a gmail invites. But I have heard good things about it. Hopefully I'll be able to give a little heads up on what it's like here in the near future. I'm not giving up until I get an invite.

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zymosius

buzzie

I've been trying to get the new layout for my blog done. Check out what I got so far. Tell me what ya think and any suggestions you might have. The sidebar still isn't to my liking but I'll work on that a little tomorrow. Seeing as how yesterday they (work) told us at the first of the year, "No more until March." What the fuck am I suppose to do until March? Oh, well, I was expecting such and one thing I've learned is that Life will toss some real shit balls at you but it always works out in the end.

Everyone have a Happy New Year with good booze, great sex, splended friends, and a Wonderful year ahead of us all.

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Zymosius

Exxon out of Gas

It's an oddity when a major service station runs on empty around here. Exxon and other service stations have done just that here in Memphis,TN. You don't hear much about these kind of things in main stream world news. Take the the time last year for example, when New York had their Power Outage. The same time Memphis was hit by a tornado that left 80% of the city and surrounding areas without power for weeks.

The Station managers I've talked to say they are expecting delivers "any minute." That was three days ago, but still no gas. Even though you hear that the quake in tsunami has not damaged oil and gas pipelines (where Exxon and other major suppliers feed from) you have to wonder if we are going to feel the after shocks and tremors in the Eastern World. For those that don't know, Memphis is considered the Heart of the US distribution of products of any kind. Fedex main office is located in Memphis, along with AutoZone, Hewlett Packard (five warehouse), Technocolor (4 warehouse, who distributes for Warner Bros, Disney, and panasonic), Napa autoparts, Cummins diesel , Barnes & Noble .com, Sharp, the list goes on... Everything comes down and up that River before it goes anywhere else. So where's our gas!

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zymosius

gmail invites

What's the deal with folks? I have gmail invites and nobody wants any. Fuck ya than man. I'll just keep 'em until the invites get low like they were before Christmas and ya'll start begging and pleading and I'll remind ya, "Oh no, I had some, but YOU didn't want 'em THEN, but noooooo."

Maybe peeps are just feeling like they don't need a 1g email, but to me it's much more than that. It's the ability to search through all your emails to find that one from last month where that chic sent you the dirty picture of herself, so you can gaze in sin at it some more. That's what it is to me man. I like the conversation thing too. So I can keep up with who has emailed what and when, but than again, nobody emails me anyway, so what's the point. I feel like that Jewel poem where she talks about the phone that never rings and a cold room or somethingOrTheOther. I'd keep her warm, little cute thing. That's what I need, a little hoochi momma with a lot of money. I'd be faithful. Promise! And do anything that you want me to do, even illegal stuff. How many folks will say that to ya. HUH?

Other things in the news:

Earthquakes.(Tsunami Death is at 52,000. Unbelievable and disgusting. Here in a America it wouldn't have been nowhere near that because of the technology that we have. That WE have.) Maybe we could practice a little Open Source.

--Yushchenko won (You can steal the election, poison the guy with TCDD Dixon but you can't stop him. Got to admire a fella' like that.)

--Some jackass wanttabe Cracker is defacing php websites. Read more about that HERE. If you read this you crackerass, "You're a fuckin idgit, that's worse than an idiot, you're a worthless dumb dickless shithead. Get a life you fat fuck."

--The University of Chicago seems to think that we Humans are smarter than animals. That shows how smart they are. Heheheh. That was funny. You were suppose to laugh. (I'll keep an eye for your sense of humor. Don't worry, I'm sure it'll turn up.)

--And, Stocks lifted. For how long? I'm not wanting to get my hopes up just yet, but I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Later taters,
Zymosius

Blah

That's all there really is to say.

Blah bah bah

Black sheep setting in a tree...

uh?

Nothing else to write...

I think I'm about to lose my job. That sucks, huh?

I've got six gmail invites!

I got to find a new job.

I wrote a really odd fuckin story yesterday. It was strange. I like it. I like strange stuff.

I like a lot of stuff...

Like...

Uh?

(The blogger rubs sleep from corner of eyes and sucks the stale beer can. Thumb flickers lighter, lighter brings cig to life. Blogger sucks on cig and last nights stale beer can.)

Is it New Years yet?

I had a revelation the other day... I want one of those casts that you wear when you break your collar bone. You know, the ones that have you walking around with your arms all out to the side. That way my arms wont get tired when I walk around with my middle finger stuck out at everyone.

It's just a thought really, I mean, you know, I wouldn't really do that or anything. Maybe if... Uh, I don't know. Anyway...

(blogger grinds cigarette butt into ashtray. Beer, stale chug -can is empty now. Thoughts are empty. What the fuck was I blogging about anyway.)


zy.

Wonderland of ICE

That's about all this city is right now -three inches of ICE. It's not like snow where you step in it and sink a bit. No no! You step down and bust your fuckin ass

The entire city of Memphis is closed. The day before Christmas Eve, the day everyone (at least those slackers that forgot that one special somebody) go out for that last minute Christmas shopping, and there's nothing open. Nothing! Not even a damn gas station. The South kinda' got hit by that storm pretty hard. I know you folks from up North are going (Ah, that anit sooo bad.) But we Southern folkies anit useta' this stuff:



That anit snow, it's ICE. That's the trolley for you folks that haven't ever been to Mempo'. It runs down Main Street. Kinda' like Time Square without the Big screen TV. :)

I have to say that it's beautiful though. Kinda' like a Walden parody straight out of some Bambi movie with folks slipping and sliding all over the place.


Happy Holidays yall. Have a great one



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Zymosius

Nasty

No, I'm not speaking of anything sexual. I'm talking about the weather. It's done got ugly out there. Cold too. Sleet mixed with rain and to make matters worse, when it gets like this in Memphis folks like to play demolition derby bumper car games. It's actually pretty amusing as long as you watch from a distance.

The sucky is it's going to be this way all weekend (highs in the twenties, lows in the Burr-burr burr, teens.)

COLD! It sucks. I want Summer to come back.

I did a good deed that I must brag about. A family of squirrels had made a home for the winter in my tool shed. I don't mind, but I go outside this morning peering up at the white sky and suddenly I hear, "Grrr, reeee aagreee." than "chut chut chut" of a really pissed off squirrel. When I look over at the shed I see that the wind last night has blown the door open and a cat has gotten in there and is staring hungrily up in the corner where the squirrels nest is. Well, I believe in survival of the fittest so I just stood there thinking that Kitty was about to get 'em some breakfast.

One of the squirrels, the smartest or the coward (not really sure. You can look at it however), got the hell out of there real quick and vacated to the nearest tree and was chattering away and looking at me like "Help, oh please Mr. Human guy, Help."

"Nope, sorry Mr, or Ms squirrel, welcome to nature. Life sucks and sometimes the bigger eat the smaller."

That didn't get through because it just keep chattering away at me which made me figure there must be some littlin's in there or something. I couldn't take hearing the heartache of the little fella' anymore, so off across the yard I go in the sleet and freezing rain in nothing but a t-shirt and jogging pants -no shoes, to the shed where there's this stand off of the cat and another squirrel hissing away at each other. So I reached just inside the door and grabbed the cat by the back of its neck and gave it a toss across the yard. (Cats do always land on their feet. Odd!?)

I'm not sure what the wagging of a squirrels tail means but I took it as a thank you. Kitty was a little pissed though as, I could tell he wanted to make another try at it, he inched back to the shed. I stomped my bare feet in the slosh of the half frozen ground and it took off.

The Bigger always win in nature.

Welp, that was my good deed for Christmas. I can go back being an ass-hole now, right?

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Zymosius

What to say?

Don't know, not much to say really. I live such a boring life. A phone that never rings, a 1gb gmail account that's always empty, an IM that's always silent. Oh, so woe is I.

Ok, enough whining, I hate cry babies. I like my life in all its uselessness. It's my life and the only one I got to work with. Not to much going on found a great picture...




Don't know what's really going on here but I know it's not a Proclamation of any kind I seen politically before. But than again, maybe Monica could give me a little insight. Just a thought.

Ok, I promised I wasn't going to be rude and political but I just had to put that one up.

In other news...

Nothing interesting. I did read somewhere about a soldier that killed a teen Iraqi after having sex with him, but now I can't find anything about it. I guess it was a hoax or google would at least have something on the story. Why do people do that? If your going to state something make it about something true. That doesn't do anything but make you just as bad as the media not telling the truth. If anyone has heard anyting about this, email me link please.

Ok, I've wasted valuable time trying to locate that story again so I got to get.

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zymosius

"Attitude"

I've been asked by a few peeps why I don't ever post any of my stuff on this blog so here... Its just a little poem. If you like, great, if not,


Attitude

Auburn leaves wind chiming winter's wind of angel wings

(soft down and velvet white)

cradling the auroic glow gray skies crystal surrounding soul of a world puffing vapors from dragon snouts.
-with hands chilled around pen admiring this cycle of life,

("from dust I became dirt
dirt to be the seed
seed I am plant
plant to animal
animal to man
from man I shall become pure soul
and soul...

-there too I'll even continue on")

leaves frolicking south in North Man's huffing out a harmony to an ancient dance tune older than any I know the ever changing of steps-flips, hops-rolls, leaves away always

-somehow just seem to know which way to go.

-----------------
old man passing
like jazz sax
-blow man BLOW!
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Mind lingers in thirty second two year old attention span wishing for old jazz sax

-curled and lanky, to pass this way in that sauciness stride insouciant is chilled film caked in numb crust finger constricted into my sleeves turtle shell cave of momentary warmth is the woman's womb of infant and man looking for that flow of constant beginnings not ever ceasing external beeching deities in praying candle lite inside the night's fur maw benighted cavities of erosion milking streams iced in apprentice glazer glancing into his Michelangelo of a masterpiece creates worlds from flacks of stardust souls spazism in North breathe the sigh of deep breath blows the Blues and tug boats down Crazy river along the way.

-never ending
attitude and seasons
leaves escaping branch in treason
never needing more than winter as a reason
to lay in slosh.

mud
earth
rejoining in creation
of summer soft sun
far off into time
realizing what's been done
creating in greenhouse

plastic glass

-housing

tilting the world's nose up at Apollo
never been so far away
yet miles have never changed
in Earth is wiped away
into humbris adolescence
stripping all is pure gone away
casting shadows of protruding
shedding themselves bare w/ nakedness away
The winter takes nothing but life

away

Across the ground walking crunch of Red man's mother blanketed in shedding flesh and soul dieing in hollow trunks of trees screaming release me of forever burdens standing here as worlds collide past to future and I linger in spells shrouded by complicate pixies reminding me of nothing but the Winter's Attitude.


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zymosius

Mon-day, monday

Isn't that how the song goes? I think. Who sang that? Was it the Beatles or The Who? I can't even remember how the rest of the song goes. Just, "Mon-day, monday... da da do la li... something something or the other..." Oh well, got to get it out of my head or I'll be singing it all damn day. "...Mon-day, monday..."

So how was everyone's weekend... (Everyones... it that suppose to be singular possessive or plural possessive?) Oh shit! screw it. How's ya doin folkies?

"...Monday, mon-day..."

AHHHHHH!

Me? SOS. Not to much to say besides it was cold this weekend. It got down to 15 last night. I had built me a fire out at my little hide-a-way but it didn't do any good so I got in the car about 10 last night and drove back home. I'm getting so soft in my old age. I remember times waking up in the middle of the night when my toes would be so cold they burned numb and I would just pull the sleeping bag a little tighter and be done with it.

I'll be glad when I get a book published so I can do the Kerouac thing and travel. Just hit the road and see the world. Go to Egypt and roam the desert like an ancient nomad on camel back. Take a boat across the Mediterranean into Greece or Italy and explore Europe and Asia and then down into the Middle East to see how the other half of the world lives. The only thing stopping me is the money to eat. That was the part that I always hated, not having the money to eat when I wanted to. But those days are long past and I'm not sure I could even do it again. Too soft now. But I promise you if I had the money I'd hit the road so quick... To much to see to just stay in one place your entire life. We were, and have always been a race of explorers. We've explored this world and have tried to explore other worlds. It's just who and what we are, (Curious.)

whelp'. I'm gonna go pop a TV dinner in the micro and write a little before the chaingang tonight. Take care and if I don't talk... or blog at you later, have a Happy Halloween and Forth of July or whatever those Holidays are that are coming up.

...Speaking of that, these folks are driving like they've lost their fuckin minds. The other day -I'm driving down the street, right, and this 2005 Vette pulls out in front of me, so I hit the backs, right... didn't want to hit the guy and screw up my piece of shit worse than it already is, but this son-of-bitch looks at me, blows his horn and flips "me" off. Like I was in the wrong. Like I was suppose to yield to his sixty-thousand dollar car and let the almighty king of the street drive down the road in the wrong damn direction. I just shock my head in awe and waved. He wasn't worth wasting my hate on. Hitting his car would have done me no good. He probable has two or three more back at his house. That lemon of mine is all I got. Screw it up, and I'm screwed. But at least I know folks are in the Christmas spirit this holiday season.

Ok, I'm really gonna go this time. Nothing else to talk about. I'm such a freakin bore, huh?

Oh shit...

"...Mon-day, monday... da da do lali... monday monday, somethingsomethingsomething... Mon-day monday..."

Can't... get... song... out ah head. Poke brain, with pencil. stop it. Behave voices!


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Zymosius

Change is good, right?

I don't why I changed everything, besides the fact I was just tired of it. This template is cleaner and simpler looking but is it easier to use?

...don't know, shit, I'll probable change it again, who knows, but for know, it's half-ass warm out there so I think I'm heading out to the country for the weekend. I miss my fox, that old deer head looking of an elm tree that just stands there praying at you with its antler branches stretched out to the sky and the stars. In the city there are no stars. It's like they've just plopped their twinkling little eyes shut from disgust of the city, that's how I feel by the weekend. Got ta' get away like Jack Kerouac and run as far as the road will go. Or at least as far as twenty bucks worth of gas a' get me.

I haven't written anything worth a shit in a good while. I gonna write a good story this weekend that can make me dream. Dreaming about something is better than somberly peering at reality.

Have a good weekend folks. Hope I didn't annoy ya too much with my bantering.

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zymosius

Ranting

One person, just open the eyes of one person...

I thank I pissed some folks off with my Bush bashing blog "Our President" and my anti-media -don't fucking lie to me you neo-conservative bastard blog "Lives are Useless?" I guess the truth really does hurt huh?

I'm not apologizing, no no no. Not even sorry. Not in the least ti-tiniest-baby-flack-of-a-bit. And I'm not even going to promise that I wont do it again. Hell, I can't even tell what I'm going to do from one minute to the next so how could I promise to behave from now on. Actually, I got some really interesting info for ya right now.

1.) Fuck Bush! Lying fucked-up smiley little arrogant dumb-shit ignorant bastard. Did that bother you? Good! It was intended to!

I wish I could get off work long enough to be there for that one. There's no doubt that there'll be little to no coverage from the media on it, that's for sure.

Which leads to:

2.) Fuck the Media! Oh, yeah! I'm really gettin' on the nerves of those lefty and righty wing corn comb ass "let's liberate the world with war" pieces of shit now anit I?

and oh, yeah...

3.) Fuck the government and their American global leadership Hitler take over the world bullshit.

You're being lied to. Get some truth

Ha, man, don't hate the Messenger, hate the fact that he has to bring the message.

Just one person. If I could open the eyes of just one person. That would make life worth living.

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Zymosius

Our President

I'll let these little funnies speak for themsleves:








SO? Um, do you think he can even read?

enjoy

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zymosius

Lives are useless?

Note: All links will open in a new window so you can follow along without losing your place here. Aren't I nice?

I was reading a blog earlier this morning and got a lot of mixed emotions. Not on my part, but the bloggers part. I honestly wasn't sure where the person was coming from, i.e. "what side" (a stupid conundrum -I know) this person was claiming to be on. But it got me googling a lot of different things I've been wondering about for sometime, but just never found the time, or rather made the time to research more into the topic.

I'm going to try and organize my thoughts a little better than the hysterical path of looping up/through/right/in/left/out/forward/around the Internet that it took me to find all of this, so hold on tight, you might not want to read this, but you need to. At least, I hope you read this even if you don't read any other blog by me.

The blogger NOFP had a link to a very funny site Bush conspiracy theory but also the RightWingNews:Dec. 17, 2004 entry that I didn't find humorous at all. (I'm neither D 0r R, more flexible politically)

Later, I found Fulwiler's blog. Note the part where Fulwiler is answering her aunt (in italics). This reminded me of this rightwing blog/news thing. Look who's calling the kettle black now.

Somewhere, I think it was a link in a news article about soldiers killed in Iraq, (CNN has an article on this. Or you can find it in every news paper in the world) got me wondering about Iraqi civilian lives. This on the other hand was no easy task. It seems that there is only one place "keeping up" with IBC, they call it. (A little acronym for death.)

WOW! Look at that number compared to the 1200 total soldiers. I think a fella' on Blogs for Bush said it best, "those soldiers are doing a good job at what they've been trained to do"

But back to IBC being the only place where you can get a remotely accurate "guesstimation" on civilian deaths, I think that General Tommy Franks said it best,

March 18, 2002 @ Bagram Air Base:

"I don't believe you have heard me or anyone else in our leadership talk about the presence of 1,000 bodies out there, or in fact how many have been recovered, you know we don't do body counts."

(And like a stubborn janitor, I image he doesn't do windows either.)

But the part I really want you to see is that this has practical been wiped out of the media. Check my proof for yourself:

A google search for "we don't do body counts" March 18, 2002 at Bagram Air Base Gen. Tommy Franks. You notice there are no Mainstream Media branches turning up in that. (CBS, NBC, and so on)

Now... let's omit a few little key words like, oh say: "we don't do body counts". search. See the difference? scratch, scratch scratch -This is me scratching my head confused. Isn't the media suppose to be non-bias? I ask myself. Hum?

But let's ask the real trivial question here. Is this lose of civilian life in complete defiance of the Geneva Convention and Hague Regulations? Are we not suppose to by humanitarian law, try to prevent civilian deaths. 17,000 doesn't seem like we're trying to hard. Here's the real kicker -we aren't trying at all, just trying to hide it. This article , a UK news paper shows (scroll down to where you see Secret deaths shame Blair and read the first paragraph.) the US nor the British are either.

Cluster bombs might interest you too.

This is Tom Brokaw Zymosius signing off...

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Zymosius

Favorite blogs

I've been looking through a lot of blogs, just reading and surfing trying to find those rare ones I consider worth the effort it takes to read, and noticed I end up going back to a few everyday. Now what I judge as a good blog might not be what others judge as a good blog. Some might consider my rant a bad blog. It probable is. But it's my blog, so bug of beoch!

I have a few things that I look for in a good blog:

1.) Quality of writing: Is the blog full of "meh saz dat uz no writ gud blog." Or is the blogger in question educated in what they are blogging about? Do they keep the reader interested?

2.) Template and layout: Is the template an eye sour -you know those with hot-pink text on white background blinding you in a headache? Does it take a PhD to try and figure out how to surf the thing?

3.) Content: What are they blogging about? That's the hardest to judge. Topics that interest me might not interest you. But I like all kinds of blogs so, whether it's a personal journal thing or a diary of "sucks and woe is me'ism", or articles and just whatever I'll normally read if it keeps me interested! Goes back to #1.

4.) Update. This, to me, is the one that kills a lot of bloggers. I've seen some blogs out there that haven't been updated in months... years. Some that have like, one or two blog entries two months ago and than the person just lost interest and moved on to something else to lose interest in. I do that too. I have the attention span of a two year with ADD. I'll be googling for a web design tutorial one minute and the next I'll be reading about what bills the Legislature is passing today the next or how to cook since I do well to put toast in the toaster without burning it. I tired being a vegan once, shit I almost starved to death because McD's only has salads in the afternoon and Taco Bell's bean Burrito has cheese on it. Another failed attempt at living healthy. Though I never understood what healthy eating was going to do for you, it's kinda' like saying that smoking will kill you, "no death will kill, smoking keeps me from killing other people." Them anti-smokers hate it when I say that one because they don't know what they can do to argue their point past a homicidal idiot saying that, if he quits smoking he's going to kill someone, and, (devious grin) your standing the closest!

What the fuck was I talking about again... oh ya favorite blogs, sorry about that, got just a tad off topic there for a second didn't I. Um, ... re-reading blog... brb.

Oh yes... number 4.) Are these people just not interested in blogging? If not, why waste the damn web space?

Without further ado, here are the blogs that I like, hope you like them too, because if you don't, it means something's wrong with me. In no particular order, so if you have a trackback and come to scream at me cuz your blog wasn't the first that I mentioned, it's not because I thought it less of a blog, really, honestly...



oakParkMasterMind: This blog trips me the shit out everytime I read it. Some of the blog topics are not only educational (meaning I actually learned something beyond two + two = five.) But it's always worth a laugh.

Sarah's Watson She just moved to the rainforest... I don't think I'll ever move to the rainforest after reading this blog.

VjGreetings Just read about the cats and you'll be hooked.

Mclir Nice article/journal type thing that gets educational in a lot of topics. Might not be for most but I like it for the quality. If you don't FINE, like it's going to hurt my feelings or something.

NothingNews1961 Not really updated a lot, but it's worth waiting for something to turn up every few days or so.

Liza Marie I really dig the design on this one, not sure why though but it's cool looking, plus she's kinda' cute (shit hope she doesn't have trackback.) I'm not a stalker, only a psychopath, not to worry.

tomama Motherhood! I do not envy a mother. Much respect to all the woman out there. I don't see how the modern woman does it. I seen a lady driving down the street the other day with a infant in one arm, bottle in the other hand, steering with her nose, yelling in the backseat at the other three kids to shut-up and talking on the cellphone. I couldn't do it. I'd done been stressed out with a fifth of JD drunk waving a gun around in Time Square and writing suicide notes in the dark. Much respect to ya.

Johnny G. Jumbo Arrogance? yes, but it's an LMAO of a blog.

thatcoloredfellasweblog Go into this one with an open mind and you'll come out with a lot of good information. It's worth spending a little time reading some past articles as well.

Kim Johnson A bunch of good article from a journalist in her free time. Worth reading for some alternative news.

That's it folks. I like 'em and think you will too.

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Zymosius

Guns I can understand but scissors

You've got to read this. That some strict laws them Philly boys 'ev got.

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zymosius

Just keeps getting better

Just when I think that Google can't get any better -they do. It seems that now, after gmail, news, desktop search, and the tons of other beta projects that google is teaming up with a few libraries to scan those hard to find books onto the internet.

Most of the books are very old, very hard to get your hands on type books (Oxford is allowing google to scan books printed before 1901) that most people probable will never get the chance to read, that is before google makes it possible.

I think this is a wonderful ideal, even better than Google Scholar that weeds out all those junk searches and just give returns searches from colleges, making researching a particular topic that much easier.

Thanks again google. And keep it up. I want to see just what ya'll plan on doing next.


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Zymosius

oops, I did it again.

No this isn't a blog about Britney Spears, sorry.

I let my mouth overload my ass yet again is all, and this time to someone that I respect. Melish, this is as public of an apology as I can give. Sorry! Politics is a very touchy subject with me too. I see all the bull that goes on in this world and the junk that the United States Government thinks that the, not only American people but people of the world, just have to deal with. The US is not God or some Father/Mother that can go around telling people how they're suppose to live.

All this government has succeeded in doing is pissing off the rest of the world to the point that the once respected and admired USA is looked at by the rest of the world as some Nazi Germany/Napoleon Bonaparte, bent on nothing but Global Domination.

"Sell not...liberty to purchase power."

"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."

-Ben Franklin

I feel for the younger generation, this is a tough era they have to learn to live in and except. I hope that they do something to make it better. Maybe somewhere down the line America can redeem itself with the rest of the world and come to terms that each country and each person has their own way, whatever that way of government/religion maybe, we need to respect that and let them make their own decisions.

Hopefully, I didn't sound so much of an asshole with this as I did before.


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Zymosius

File-sharing takes another hit

Hollywood is beginning their lawsuit on server operators that host bits of information that are used in collecting a full program with bitTorrent. After the lawsuits of such programs as Kazaa, Morpheus, and Grokster it seems that Hollywood is cracking down on the next wave of file sharing programs that it says have cost the movie and music industry anywhere from 700 million to billions of dollars.

Hollywood has tried in the past to sue the actual downloaders of the files and the program owners to no avail. This move is meant to disrupt the servers that host the bits of information that point file sharers in the direction to download the entire movie, song, or program being shared. In August, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, "peer-to-peer companies can't be held responsible for intellectual property infringement that may take place on their networks, because the technologies can be also used for legitimate, non-infringing purposes." This case has been sent to an appeal. For now, file sharing software such as BitTorrent and eDonkey are not illegal. But so-called "indexing servers" that help users download copyrighted content are. The MPAA argues that servers that host such sites are aware that they are making acts of copyright infringement possible, and should therefore be held liable.



A Musician make less than ten percent of the twenty dollars charged in the record stores for the cd that took 30¢ to a peice to make. The average movie makes over 100 times the cost. Files downloaded with bitTorrnent and other P2P software are done mostly free of charge. Greed? Who?

My question is, what is the difference between downloading a song off the net than recording it off the radio? What's the difference in downloading a movie off the net than recording it off the TV? The next step in Hollywood would be to make P2P software illegal therefore crimping, not only the development of the Internet, but technology in general. If they where able to succeed than Microsoft would have a case against the Free Software Foundation. And such Open source projects as Linux, which Microsoft claims is costing the multi-billion dollar company billions of dollars a year.

Free is a matter of freedom! Greed is a matter of power.


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Zymosius

Today is today

I goofed and need to apologize. The Ukrainian presidential candidate isn't dead... just seriously whacked wishing his were dead. Sorry, I should have read more before I opened my big-fat-mouth.

As for me. Nothing new on this side of the globe. Still job hunting. I doubt anything is going to come up before Christmas so I'm stuck with what I got for the time being. For the life of me I can't believe how hard it's gotten to find a job these days. I remember when I was 19-20'ish or so I could leave at 9:00 am in the morning and have a job before lunch. I've been looking for a good stable job for going on six months now. There just aren't any out there. One shit excuse for employment after the other is all I seem to be running across. Maybe I need to move... (nope, too broke to move.) Ok, suggestions anyone?

I'm a few weeks away from getting Project: Indian Summer off the ground and running. Still learning the needed knowledge to accomplish my goal. And I will. It's destine you know. But Project:I/S will be my engulfing addiction for awhile. Along with a couple of other folks that will be apart of this. Just not many folks that I can trust in this world and see things the way I see them. We have that in common if nothing else.

Well, it's off to get to getin. Take care. I'll try to have an article or something interests to read latter today.

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Zymosius

D-it shanza

AHHHH arghhhh!!!!!!!!

I've been fooling with this blog template, that I grabbed off some site that isn't even worth mentioning, for seven hours now. It still wont do what the picture she has does. For her... it's nice and pretty... me... do I dare explain beyond the inevitable: It doesn't want to work for me. It was pretty too. Screw it. Maybe it's god's way of saying stick with your own stuff.

So they killed that Ukrainian. Anit that something. "Can't beat... Kill 'em" I think that was always the Russian motto. Or it just went something like that. How knows. I'm still too ticked about the template to care. I shouldn't have wasted that much time on some dumb shit. I got to much to be getting done to do that. But that's one of my major faults, I just don't give up until it's either fucked beyond recognition or I get sick of it and toss the whole thing through the window.

I'm ok... still didn't go get drunk last night. Why? I'm poor. Need I explain anymore? That job interview that I had gone to Wednesday was a joke. It turned out to be some sort of stupid door-to-door sales thing. No, itznodhapin, not me. I'm not much of a people person as it is and you expect me to try and sell someone something. I can hear the sirens now. -"Fuck you if ya don't want to buy it than ya stupid..." Off I go to jail...

oh well, I'm going to take a break from this. I'm thinking about just heading out the the country for the weekend. It's cold out there is the only reason I might not and just wait until tomorrow morning. Spending the night out there will damn near freeze ya to death. And that's with two pairs of long underwear and a heavy sleeping bag. But I got to get some writing done.

I guess what I'll do is chalk up the time spent on screwing with that template as a lesson learned and get to going. I'll build me a good fire and wake up in the morning in peace and quite and write the entire day.

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zymosius

Billy Corgan The Poet

Billy Corgan goes poet? Billy Corgan, the lead singer/guitarist for the popular alternative rock band, "Smashing Pumpkins" and "Zwan" goes poet.

And I just got through talking about how music was going downhill.

Oh boy!

Here we go again.

I'll admit, it doesn't seem all that bad. I've always been somewhat of an admire of Billy-boy, but, this is going to take some adjusting of my mind to come to complete terms on the fact he's trying one of those Jewel things. Now -don't get me wrong, I think that Jewel is not only a talented Musician -as Billy is himself, but an alright poet. It's just that you can't help but wonder what makes a millionaire musician turn poet. I mean, Charles Bukowski said it best: "Poets live shit and die shit..." and I can't grasp where rock star poets fit into this, is all.

I read somewhere, I think it was in the hardback of his poetry book "Blinking With Fists", that he is also working on a book. Now whether this means he's writing a fiction book, or another poetry book... I'm not sure. Maybe it will be something worth reading. But you know me, I'm as harsh a critic as it gets. To me, there are a lot of writers (Very Good Writers) that never see publication and when these superstars come along with a book that without a doubt was ghost written, this kills the market for the actual talent because people are going to go fork their doe out, not on the book as a quality read, but the marketing ploy of the name that says has written the book. It's unnerving to me is all.

Hopefully, yet again, I've done nothing but shoot off my mouth, and Billy-boy turns out to bring folks back to reading poetry. From reading his blog he has a lot to be desired for a literary voice. My advice, read Steven King's "On Writing." There's a lot of good points that King makes in that book about dialog and narration concepts that would come in handy. Writing is not something anyone can just jump into. (I've been writing since the age of ten and still don't have a full grasp on the whole art form yet. It takes time.) -Take some time to think this one through man. That's all I'm saying.

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Zymosius

Yesterday blues

Man, yesterday I just felt like blah all day. It was one of those mixtures of screw the world don't touch me look at me, I quit, tired of trying, don't give a rats rear-end if the world burns to the ground. (Winter-mid-life-crisis, I suppose.) Kinda' one of those twenty-four hour "don't_fuck_with_me" bugs. But I'm feeling much better now. Maybe I needed a break from society for awhile, who knows. But I'm here now.

Something that I've been noticing here of late is that the music of today (mostly rock, quite a bit of R&B) is just not doing it for me anymore. I find myself pulling out the old dust covered CD cases and tapes journeying back to the classic stuff. You know your getting old when the music you listened to as a kid is now called "Classic Rock"! Maybe that's the problem with me. I'm getting old. But anyways...What the hell was I saying again... oh ya, music. The rock music of today all sounds the same with that fake British accent and nasal sound or the same three beat harmony as with everything else out.

This is odd mainly because "normally" in times of war the music just hits the level of high end hysteria that makes you want to get up off the couch and run down the street screaming "Come on baby light my fire." But it's not. It's dull. Agitating. Not worth even listening to -much less spending the twenty to thirty bucks these self-centered jack-rabbits are charging for the crap.

I guess that's just my take on the matter. Maybe I need to go get some of that Zoloft stuff and become a drone monkey slave to society. NOT! I'll be ok. I thank it's the weather around here. It's been that gray hazy daze of cotton sheets draped over the world. And the rain... I see what Poe was talking about when he wrote Bells bells bell Bells. I need to get out and party like a teenager. I thank that's what I'm going to do tonight.

Everybody, it's Friday... Go party like you're a teenager.

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Zymosius

DEC 8

Not much happening today. I just finished reading an article that Congress has finally gotten around to passing the new Intelligence Bill. I'll be reading more of that and you can too here. Just enter Intelligence Bill into the search box and it will "hook-ya-up".

Personally I'm not sure what to thank on the matter just yet. I want to research a bit more on just what the bill contains first. I'll tell you one thing though -google...oh boy, I can't say enough nice things about what they're doing lately. Some of their new projects are the best beta projects that I've ever seen. Google Scholar, Answers, Special searches and local... Yahoo and MSN anit got shit on them Cali. boys. Here's another. Pay close attention to the fine print at the bottom. :)

As for me, S.O.S. (Same Old Sahnaz). I haven't heard back from that my artist friend. I hope she's not ticked about me posting a link to her art. If so, I'm sorry, I wont post anymore links to her art. Really. Yes, I'm in an Impishly mood this morning. What can I say.

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Zymosius

NASA Return to Flight

NASA and its STS-114 team have set a date for its "Return to Flight" mission from May 12 to June 3, 2004. This is the first pre-flight scenario since the 2003 Columbia accident.

The STS-114 Astronaut team have been practicing simulations that Paul Hill, the lead flight director for Shuttle Mission STS-114, says "look and feel to us just like a real flight -- even to the astronauts."

Flight Controllers from both the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station will be working together in the simulations of stationary and/or moving Shuttle simulators that mimic an actual flight with possible scenarios and practice sessions that grade the crew on problem solving performance.

One major scenario is a somersault that will give the ability to view the underside of the shuttle for inspection prior to re-entry. Shuttle program manager William Parsons said that a redesign of the fuel tanks should ensure that no debris will break away large enough to seriously damage the carbon panels that protect the shuttle, though if it were to happen, NASA still has not implemented a way to fix an orbiting shuttle damaged in such a way.

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Zymosius

Playing favorites

I'm going to play favorites here for a second. I know that you'll enjoy this great artwork . It's a friend of mines little site. She just gave me this link, and I'm, well, astonished! It's no secret that I'm not only a fan of literature, but art in general.

I love the sense of Jazz in this art. And not only that but the emotion that I get from the cover picture. She also has that ability to capture (photograph) the everyday instance and turn it into art. That to me, shows talent.

Maybe I'm playing favorites, but check it out and decide for yourself. http://www.mahart.mypicgallery.com/mpg/Route.asp

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zymosius

Fascism followup

Zymosius: Fascism

This is a simple follow up on my last blog that has gotten some mixed reviews. Any topic concerning race origin is going to be a touchy subject. That doesn't mean that we as a blog community (whether it be blogger, bloghorn , or any other blog community) shouldn't discuss these topics. That's what blogging is all about -people sharing their views. The internet is the tool that will contect this world. That blog proves it. I'm glad thatcoloredfella found my topic and commented on it. What, to me, has happened is two people that probable wouldn't have ever met, have learned of each other.

Now what? What will we learn from each other?

zymosius

Fascism

Boy oh boy! I'm gonna get in some trouble for this one but I think it needs to come out. I'm not black nor white nor do I have anything do with racism, neofascism or hate groups in any sort. I believe solely in people working together not as a common entity of race, religion, or political belief structure, but as a whole. We might all come from different backgrounds, faiths and geological regions but when you get down to it -we are from the same... Planet. (I almost used a curse word there. I caught myself.) So when I read things like this race flak (flak being the term for media bashing.) I get a little upset and decide to turn to the world through this blog and share my feelings on the point.

The whole beginning sentence with the blog bares no truth. People from every corner of the world blog. http://weblogs.com That proves it. Now, most people that read a blog don't know who you are, what sex, religion, etc... you are, unless you post a picture of yourself. Most do, some don't. But the point being is that you cannot tell what color a person is just by reading their blog.

Yes, I do agree that the media chooses what it reports on and what it doesn't. This is mostly from what is referred to as propaganda media. (I'm in the process of writing an article on just that. Should be done in two weeks or so.) Advertisers, political issues, and surrounding editors have influence on this or a number of other reasons that I'm just not going to get into in this blog because what this is about is the need to forgot about the color of your skin and realize that the people, not just a color or religion, are being surprised -but we as the body of the world are too Dum-F... Busy trying to kill each other to understand we're doing just what these corporations and media conglomerates are wanting us to do -walking around with blindfolds on. If they weren't, than why is it the only thing that you can find on TV and Radio and games and News Mags is: Death, War, -told the way they want us to believe it. We are being mind-sucked into believing in what we are being told is real.

There's no way for the world to exist as one race, it will not ever happen, sorry to inform you of that MR. thatcoloredfellasweblog. So get over your self-pity and personal demoralizing man. Yeah, I know, "past suppression that I don't know nothing about." But than again, maybe I do.

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zymosius

Confession

I have a confession to make. With Gmail your emails have the little google add, you know the one generated by the content of the page. Will, blooger came in my inbox and there in the little google ad was:

Elegant. Powerful. Professional.
The better way to put a blog online
http://squarespace.com/

So I just want to see what they had and signed up. They suck. Blogger rules. Listen learned. I'll never do that again. Ok, so I'm lying and probable will but for now... blogger is the best I've seen.

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Zymosius

3D desktops

They are determined it seems to bring about the post-WIMP era. WIMP is the geek term for the modern desktop environment that we use today. (W)indows, (I)cons, (M)enus, and (P)ointers. For those old timers that can remember the DOS 3.0 and even earlier days of the little dog running to get your documents, you know that the desktop has come along way since the IBM CLI (Command Line Interface) days of glory: 1960's - 1980's. IBM OS/2 lead the way, even gave Bill Gates and Paul Allen their start. I doubt IBM knew they were helping to create the Gaint Microsoft that would dominate the, not only desktop market but also server and software market for close to thirty years now.

We've all heard about Linux by now. If you haven't, I'm not sure how to help you crawl out from under the rock but here . Linux, though Bill Gates doesn't thank so is a rapidly growing Operating System -it has been rated many times as the fastest growing OS of any. But the thing that has always been messing is at Gates said in his interview: "You always have to do something very dramatic to move things up to the next level. Who has the guts and the willingness to do risk-taking to get ink into the standard user interface?" Linux has never been the development platform for an entirely new way of thinking about how a computer works. To answer you question Gates: Linux has the guts. Welcome to the future of your desktop. No more flat plain windows.

Looking Glass was created by Hideya Kawahara at Sun Microsystems and later licensed under the GPL. Meaning that all source code must now and forever remain available. This to developers means that they can easily design new application for the software and use the per-existing code for designing their own desktop. Alan Kay (the creator of the WIMP) desktop has started his own 3d environment . It seems that not only is the desktop being reinvented, but Linux has finally made its mark as being not only a powerful Operating System, but also a development platform for new technology.

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Zymosius

Is there an end?

I'm wondering if these things are going to stop? Are the Iraqis wanting peace or do they want to be left alone in their war zone? I hate when I look back and thank that Iraq was better off with Hussein. At least their streets weren't full of machine gun fire, mortar blast and bloody bodies "every single day."

What do they want for their Country? And why is it not being delivered? The US and rest of the coalition are trying -right?

I read where Iraq police stations are being bombed and the police are abandoning their post. Fear has nothing to do with that. They're evidently being forced to do something they don't feel strongly about and just give up without a fight and without the chance of being killed. This says to me that the Iraqi police either do not care, do not believe in what is trying to be done, and/or they support the rebels. Whichever! They must not want this coalition in their country. So why are we staying?

Other times I wonder if the Iraq war, just like the Palestinian and Israel conflicts, have turned out to be some sort of Holy War over whose religion is the best. With the way the world has progressed in the past fifty years we've grown above hating someone because of their particular beliefs. But hate groups have existed for ages and are still strong and bring in new members as fast as the US military.

However it turns out, we cannot leave the Iraqi people now. The UN needs to get involved or the Middle East is going to become the Third World Warzone. There is no progress being made and an election right now would end like the Ukraine. The main thing that has got to be done in Iraq is give the people the ability to protect themselves from whoever they want to protect themselves from, whether it be America, or whoever. Let them live the way they see fit.

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Zymosius

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Man! Maybe I'm just picky about the use of CSS with a web page. But this type of thing annoys me. Not so much that I have to scroll sideways to see the page but the cursor. Don't screw with the cursor, it's annoying and you will tick off quit a few folks. It's not neat -it's annoying.

Hints on good use of CSS in web design:
1). CSS is "CONTENT LAYOUT!" Use it to position elements (or the things/areas that hold your stuff) Use the margin-right:; property with the element or the, right:; property so the user will not have to scroll side ways.

2). Images are nice. But use them with caution. Not to take up the entire page. One of the best background properties is, background-attachment:fixed; That will leave your image in the back for pretty eye catching but not in the way of content.

3).JavaScript? Oh dear! Leave the statues bar alone. It keeps the much needed information from being displayed there. Stop it!!

This is a nice use of CSS Crisp layout. There are a lot of nice sites out there, that was just the first one I ran across.

We just need to remember to use CSS wisely. It, like other great things can be used to an excess but over use will kill you.

Please don't thank I'm knocking a person, just trying to help out. I did some pretty crazy things when I startes trying to layout pages. It takes working with to see what works and what doesn't.

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Zymosius

need to step back a sec

This isn't one to read unless you've had that person that just wont go away. What I mean is there is this particular someone that is constantly sticking their noise in my business and popping up a the oddest times making me wonder if they're a fuckin Jack-in-the-Box. One more time and I'm going to be in jail for assualt. Their noisieness has gone as far as digging into my past trying to see what I've done and where I've been and then calling a person, I haven't seen nor want to see or anything else to do with -asking them questions about me. What the fuck? Do you thank you're FBI or CIA. Fuck off! Or I'll Fuck you off.

Sorry about this post. I had to get that out of my system. I'm sure there are people out there that will know how I feel. It's nothing short of stalking. But why would a guy stalk another guy? I thank that that's the part really annoying -why is this person digging around? And what right do they have in doing so?

On the liter side of thing... I have a few more things that I'm wanting to accomplish with the lay-out and look of this here blog. What I've been thanking is: maybe make a different section for blogs and a different section for articles and reviews type such. I've noitced some really nice blogs going through the toolbar on the page. Good reading through there. You should try it.

As for this little blog spot? Deal with me for a sec. until I can get this thing up and the ball rolling. I will.

Okadokay. I gots ta get and get on gettin.

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Zymosius

Google's going ga_ga

Google's beta projects are growing and taking the internet by the hand saying: Walk this way. Let me show you how it's done Yahoo. Yes! They are killing Yahoo and it's so talked about search engine. Not only with the new edition of their beta Email, Gmail, but with wonderful search features such as Scholar search making it easier than ever to find that muc need answer to that six month research project that is due in an hour. Not that searching google has ever needed a PhD.

Keep up the good googling Google.

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Zymosius

Dropping in

I've been busy working on this little blog for the past few days and haven't posted anything so... shit!

What's going on with me is about the same, I still haven't finished the novel ("American Promise") that I'm working on. I'm still writing daily -it just wants to take it's time coming out of me.

I thank I've just about got this little blog fixed up. I want to change some of the link states around but other than that... I like it. It's me. Now it's time to start working on the content. Mostly what I'm planning on is to have this mixed up with me (journal style) and some of my feelings on world news (like articles and stuff.) The articles, it goes without saying, are going to take longer to write than just a simply blog so they'll probable just be one or two a week.

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zymosius

Calling the kettle black

I just read this little clip. What I like the most is the part where Bush says that outsiders should not "meddle" in any new election. Ok! Than don't

What's the difference with Putin wanting Viktor Yanukovich to take the Presidency than Bush supporting Ghazi al-Yawyer (Iraq's President.) with 150,000 troops. I don't see Russia sending soldiers to the Ukraine.

As for calling an election rigged because it was close, that's like saying that Bush shouldn't have won the November elections with only 51% -and damn sure shouldn't have won the 2000 election without the popular vote. But "meddling". Bush you need to look into the mirror before you say things like that man.

I seriously doubt that Putin's heart is in the right place when it comes to this election. I'm quite sure he wants the Ukraine back with Russia, as him and the departing Ukrainian President: Leonid Kuchma have been "cuddling up to one another."

Let the election rest. If the people don't want Yushchenko than they can impeach him themselves. Maybe the Ukrainians are wanting to pull away farther from Russia. So be it. Outside countries should not "meddle" in the affairs of another country. That goes for everyone. Don't tell your neighbor how to live and they wont tell you how to live.

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zymosius