Category: Life

Took a walk in Gatineau Park today with my family. I added the pictures to the Gallery. You can view the pictures for this trip here.

Yet another 754 file sharers have become targets of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a group representing major record labels in the United States. The RIAA accuses the P2P users of copyright infringement while uploading songs to other users on P2P networks. This brings the total to around 14,800 targeted so far in the campaign by the major record labels who claim they are fighting for survival.

Out of the entire 14,800 lawsuits, only about 3,400 have ever been settled and not one of these cases have ever seen a proper court case to date.

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Piracy Movie News:
Still working on it whenever I can. Still am in the scripting phase, getting bit by bit done. And here I thought I would of had the whole completed by October – how naive. It’ll be released when its done. No promised due dates.

iPodSubwayMaps.com is a site that gives off bite-size pieces of subway system maps for people to use on their special iPod Photos/Nanos for free.

They just got a cease and desist letter from the authorities of the New York/San Fransisco subway operators. Why? Because the photos they used the maps are those that are given freely on the websites of both respective authorities.

Legally, iPodSubwayMaps is the one at fault here. But just because something is legally incorrect, does not mean that it is truly right or wrong. These maps were distributed on the net freely anyways. These maps helped people, and did not require anyone spending money to obtain them [iPodSubwayMaps is donation-based]. No one lost any money over this. No one lost… anything over this. In fact, it could be said that such a site helped both subway authorities in general.

Instead of sending a cease-and-desist letter, and removing someone that was helpful, why not just work with them? That’s whay common sense would dictate. But then, if people were suddenly to adopt such a sense of logic – lawyers would all suddenly whither away.

Minimalistic Purge, the Quintessential Player skin I designed has finally hit the 10,000 download mark! This is really awesome news for me.

Three days ago, I wrote a new filter for Thunderbird (my email program). It’s job was supposed to delete this annoying Spam variant.

Unfortunately, on my first live test, it managed to wipe out every single incomming email. Among the deleted was one from a friend; but it could of included yours too.

I know 6 emails were deleted. I cannot retrieve them. If you sent me an email recently, and I haven’t replied, please send it again. My apologies for the mess.

The filter was supposed to delete any mail with “http://uk.geocities.com/”. Why, you may ask? Because in one day, I received 26 (!!) messages of spam linking to subdirectories of that domain. That’s in addition to all the other spam from previous days.

Why the filter also wiped out legit mail is unknown.