Well, it’s Christmas, and it occurred to me that “what is right” and “what is wrong” are far too often more shades of gray than anything else. One of the only remotely sensible options is Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative. This has problems though, with the most often cited problem running along these lines: You’re living… Continue reading Sources of Morality
Peace is Dangerous!?!
Michele Bachmann is firmly in the “village idiot” camp with most other politicians. She’s pro-war and anti-peace. Like WTF? When Ron Paul suggests that perhaps not killing people is a good idea, and that perhaps peace might work, what does she say? I have never heard a more dangerous answer for American security than the… Continue reading Peace is Dangerous!?!
PowerPoint found an error that it can’t correct
There are few other programs that can send you into a blood thirsty screaming rage like Microsoft Office. Often the problem is a user problem, but not always. If you get an error when opening a file something like: PowerPoint found an error that it can’t correct. blah blah blah The problem could be that… Continue reading PowerPoint found an error that it can’t correct
Is God on Your Side?
Ahem… He’s probably got better things to do than take sides. And why is it that it’s always people with guns or people that are fighting that insist “God” is on their side?
CNET and Installers: A Win-Win-Win-Win Scenario
A while back Download.com (CNET) did some pretty shady stuff with installers. People screamed bloody murder, and CNET listened. They’re now in beta with the new version of their downloader/installer, and this is a very good thing. They’ve changed all the bad stuff (from what I can tell), and are now offering what looks like… Continue reading CNET and Installers: A Win-Win-Win-Win Scenario
1 Reason to Hate the Web
Maybe 10 reasons would sound sexier, but I’ve just got 1 today. Stupidly high memory usage. That’s it. Just that. Here’s an example: All the highest memory consuming programs, are web pages… Opera has 60 tabs, but the other Chrome instances are single pages, as is the 1 tab in Firefox. Skype has a… Continue reading 1 Reason to Hate the Web
On Violence
Violence takes many forms. These are a few: Physical Emotional Psychological/intellectual Economic Sexual That’s not a definitive list, and some could be subsets of others, but it’s enough to illustrate the point. Violence, at its core, is an argument. It is an attempt to get someone else to adopt your position. For example, in sexual… Continue reading On Violence
Getting Around Internet Censorship: Internet Freedom
There is no better way to set me off into a mindless fury of profanity and obscenity than to censor me. I loathe censorship. It sets me off. So, here’s how to get around censorship in repressive police states like Belgium… The Belgian Anti-Piracy Federation (BAF) has urged all Belgian ISPs to block Swedish freetard… Continue reading Getting Around Internet Censorship: Internet Freedom
TrialPay Integration with IPN.NET
I’m slowly closing in on being able to release the new Photo Resizer Social Edition. It will feature 1-click photo uploading to Facebook, Flickr, and TwitPic/Twitter, but all that has been the easy stuff so far. The licensing and marketing side of it is where the real work is. Building on how I integrated ILS… Continue reading TrialPay Integration with IPN.NET
The Licensing Experience with Infralution and DotNetNuke
I don’t think that I’ve ever done a licensing or purchasing flow exactly the same way twice. Well, a couple times, but mostly I experiment with both major changes and minor tweaks. This time around for the Super Simple Photo Resizer Social Edition, I’m doing things more or less right. There are a few things… Continue reading The Licensing Experience with Infralution and DotNetNuke