Nearly 4pm, still in pyjamas.
We’re supposed to be going away on holidays tomorrow. There are like a million things I need to clean up and do before we go but goddamn I feel like trash.
Being sick sucks.
Archive for January, 2012
Link: Research - DISQUS.
Disqus does an infographic on pseudonymous comments.
I’ve seen this get attacked a fair bit around the tracks. The petty digs aside (it’s a huge JPG! /faints), it’s pretty telling that all the narky comments seem to come from people who:
- use their Really Real Names Online
- work in tech or related fields where having a Hip Internet Persona is a Career Plus
- are dudebro cis white men, and best of all
- have comments turned off on their blogs.
… Yuh-huh.
In the entire discussion [around SOPA], I’ve seen no discussion of credible evidence of this economic harm. There’s no question in my mind that piracy exists, that people around the world are enjoying creative content without paying for it, and even that some criminals are profiting by redistributing it. But is there actual economic harm?
Tim O’Reilly – Google+ – Before Solving a Problem, Make Sure You’ve Got the Right….
O’Reilly goes on to talk about the economic impact on his own company due to the piracy of his own books; essentially, he doesn’t think it’s a big deal. (Also note the little dig at “patent trolls” at the end there.)
Image: What if we count the iPad as a Computer….
So you can debate all you like about exactly how sharply that little blue Apple line trends up. But trend up it does none the less (even, it should be mentioned, when iPads are taken out of the analysis).
Many questions and jokes about My Space.simple answer – we screwed up in every way possible, learned lots of valuable expensive lessons.
Twitter / @rupertmurdoch: Many questions and jokes a ….
All sic.
My S3 bill is 1c this month?
Because apparently Reduced Redundancy Storage costs more at low-capacities than “normal” storage. Go figure.
Y U SO EXPENSIVE, AWS?
Link: RAP NEWS 11: Australia Day (feat. Ken Oathcarn) - YouTube.
Aah, 26 January. The day white bogans all over Australia get smashed on jingoism, Indigenous Australians remind people they’re still pissed off, and left-wing Australians of all ethnicities get conflicted between the two (and have to un-friend a lot of people on Facebook).
I have to admit I did lol at the full “Australia Day – yeah c**t!!” (warning: says “cunt” a lot), but it’s worth pointing out it was linked to me by my conflicted husband who was linked to it by a bleached-in-the-wool racist who apparently missed the satire. Go figure.
Hey. At least we don’t have to go to work today.
Link: Does alcohol burn off in cooking?.
Short answer: No.
Slightly-longer-answer: Eventually mostly yes, but probably still not as much as you were expecting.