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Some updates, and a little "open sermon"

* I’m in the unusual position of being inside, yet rugged up with a jacket and scarf with what feels like a cold. I can’t say I’m happy about it. * Upgraded WordPress here to 2.7.1 (Fedora 11 RPM rebuilt for F10) without too many hassles. It

Can sanity prevail? Here's hoping.

Christian lobby upset about Australian government backtracking on Internet Censorship [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/05/27/1243103585180.html] I’ve one word to say about this: good. The whole sorry mess that is the Australian net censorship debate has become an international embarrassment. It is not or

Yeah, He Did.

[https://i0.wp.com/www.thatfleminggent.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/political-pictures-barack-obama-chill-out-got-this.jpg] Chill, I got thisBarry, just don’t fuck it up, k? Please bro? That last yokel really screwed the pooch. (pic courtesy of punditkitchen.com)

Three little pre-Christmas requests.

Dear Lazyweb, I’ve set up icecast as an IPV6-only experiment (the result of a half-drunken challenge from Mr Steven Lisson Esq.) and am streaming some Ogg Vorbis tracks off it with EZstream. Winamp and Totem Player (Linux/Gnome) work fine. Banshee (Gnome/Mono) and WMP however do not – WMP

.bullshit

Tim Berners-Lee says the Internet is full of lies [http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24363626-5014239,00.html] He’s quite right in saying there’s a hell of a lot of unsubstantiated and downright erroneous rubbish out there – look around FreeRepublic or StormFront or RaptureReady or

The idiots are running the asylum

* Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the United States [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin] * Virginia de-convicts AOL junk mailer Jeremy Jaynes [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/13/virginia_overturns_antispam_conviction/] * Senator saves YouTube

Quote of the Day...

From the comments on a TIME item regarding Jesus Christ’s “may-or-may not have been true or allegory” ressurrection [http://time-blog.com/middle_east/2007/02/jesus_tales_from_the_crypt.html]Â (via Metafilter) “I’ve already advised the Discovery Channel that if they air this I will cancel

A Wednesday Buffet...

Politics (sort of) This method of verifiable voting [http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~rivest/Rivest-TheThreeBallotVotingSystem.pdf]looks very interesting, if a little complicated for it’s intended users (no such issues here in Australia, especially if you’ve ever seen our Senate voting forms). Ron Rivest [http://en.wikipedia.org/