Sony Ericsson K750i + Flickr == Good!

I’m now completely obsessed with uploading pictures to flickr with my new phone Since T-Mobile offers unlimited net access (although with only a few ports allowed) for only $4.95 per month (wow I sound like an advertisement) I’m going all out uploading a ton of picutures. The Sony Ericsson K750i takes decent outdoor pictures for a phone, probably the best to date. I’m pretty happy with it. Check them out.

I’ve been uploading them via email because it’s free that way. Picture messages have a limit and the phone forces you to downsize them. This way I get to have the full size pics, only at the cost of a few more clicks and some extra seconds to upload. GPRS is sadly slow.

The only real trick was in getting the IMAP client working with SSL and the GeoTrust certificate on my mail server. The phone only has a short list of trusted Root Certificates so I had to add a new one. The dumb part was I keept adding the wrong one. It turns out I just needed to download the Equifax Secure Global eBusiness CA-1 DER encoded key from GeoTrust and enlist the help of some friends at work with bluetooth on their PowerBooks. Once the right one was upload I was ready to go. So now I can check my mail, a required step to get my mail server to let me relay, and send mail, including images. Email them off to flickr and it’s set.

Wired: We're Not Dismembering Babies

This gets me thinking about just how skilled prominant Republicans are at missrepresenting the facts.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay recently called embryonic stem-cell research the “dismemberment of living, distinct human beings.”

There are two disturbing parts to this, one is obvious, the other less so. First, dismemberment means “the removal of limbs” which is something the embryos used for stem-cell research do not have. As the article points out, they are simply a ball of cells, completely unrecognizable as a human being (except in the case of fetal germ cells, which I belive are less often used, but come from an already aborted fetus). Yet now we have this image of a baby being torn apart by heartless doctors for the sake of cold hard science.

It's ok, I'm ok.

I think I had to explode before the healing could begin. I’m starting to have interests other than World of Warcraft and spending time with one or two people. Looking at Ruby on Rails again, no promises about what I will actually do with it. I’ve been looking at some new weblog software also, typo is looking pretty good. I’m not sure if I want to give up any of the goodness with textpattern for the new hotness.

Moody I am, but I’m working through it.

I've done my best to push people away, I think I've finally succeded

And now I deal with the consequences. The friends I have left are few. What a sad bastard I’ve let my self become. I’m sure I will pull out of it, but fuck it sucks now.

I haven’t posted here in a good while, the depression kind of keeps that motivation at bay.

Fuck, wish I knew what I was doing with my self and my few friends left. My negativity has pushed many away, especially those I’ve wanted so badly to keep close. My insecurities have pushed away those who poke at them since I just can’t take the pain the poking causes.

It used to be things rolled off my back. It used to be everyone wanted to hang out with me. It used to be that I felt like everyone liked me. I know they still do, for the most part, but I’ve done a damn good job of making it hard for people to want to spend time around me.

Now I listen to “Tomorrow, Wendy” (the Concrete Blonde version)over and over, I’m not sure why.

The loneliness I’ve made for my self throbs in my head. I just want to sleep, sleep holding someone I care about, who cares about me. I don’t want to have to force the good face, to try so hard to pretend that it’s all okay. It’s really not okay, not at all.

I’ve had it, had someone who cared like I want, like I needed, more than once. But I’ve fucked it up in one way or another.

Now maybe I have to go and pretend everything is fine some more, act happy, maybe if I can do it long enough It will stick this time. And someone will want to be with me, and I can build some friendships again. Maybe.

If you want to sell me something, tell me what you actually sell!

Dear people who want to sell me something,

If you would like me to buy your product it would be best if you list out the features your product has and what it actually does. Plain, easy to understand language would be best, along with specific information. If there are standard terms to describe your product, use them, please don’t make up your own. This frustrates me and leads to looking elsewhere for my needs. If I have to spend too much time staring at your website or marketing information to even figure out what the heck your product is then I’m probably going to move on.

If you present what your product does, how it performs, the features it has, and it’s technical specs in a very clear and concise manner, I may just buy it. Bulleted lists of features and specs are really great. If you don’t do this it makes it very hard to figure out if I need your product, and I don’t buy many products when I dont’ know what they do or if I can use them. This is especially true for expensive networking equipment and software.

Please, do us all a favor, tells us what you are trying to sell.

Thanks,

Kelp

Infrequent Updates, What I've Been Doing

I’ve become one of those bloggers who posts some bit of news every month or so, maybe a bit about my personal life, and not much else. I just haven’t had the will and energy to post much lately. Most of my time has been didicated and very focused on World of Warcraft and I like that game a damn lot. But my obsession is leaving little time for most other things.

I’ve had to spend some time reconciling this

Punched in the Head

Finally something interesting happens that isn’t related to World of Warcraft. Yeah, I left my apartment and this is what I get for it.

A friend of mine used to work at the EMP so the promise of free drinks took three of us there. We were there for an hour, maybe more, by this time I’ve had at least 4 drinks. I notice a girl sitting at the other side of the bar, and she isn’t really talking to anyone. I good bit of time passes, maybe 30 minutes, and I go up and talk to her. I ask her who she’s waiting for

Schneier On Security: Billions Wasted Anti-Terrorism Security

Schneier discusses the waste of money that is the Federal Government’s anti-terrorism efforts. Lots of fun information like the fact that the cost of airport screeners grew from $104 million $741 million (per year I think) yet they still fail to find weapons at the same rate as before.

Schneier pulls his information and many quotes from cited “New York Times” and “Washington Post” articles. It’s just more confirmation of what we’ve known all along, but it’s good to see respected media calling this out, finally.