SideQuest

Start thinking

It's soooo difficult sometimes to put under words the things you feel and know in your heart are true. There are a lot of things in the US government that I do not agree with by a longshot. I feel they are wrong. Recently I saw the movie Why We Fight. Now of course this might not be the full and complete truth. That doesn't even matter, as long as it makes YOU think about what you are told and what you believe. I advise everyone to go and see this movie. It's absolutely great.

Then on the heals of that, there is this whole issue about the ABCs mini-series "Path to 9/11". It was partly just incorrect or bended truths mixed with reality. Everyone knows the best lie is half the truth. It was nothing I didn't expect to see as part of the gulf of movies and TV dramatizations of 9/11 that are currently being released. It's the on opposite side of the "Why We Fight"-movie you could say. There is nothing wrong with that. What I however did NOT expect was for someone who is key in this issue to come with an eloquent and honest reply. However former-president Clinton did just that in an interview with Fox. You could see this was not prepared. This was a man speaking from his heart and telling the world what he believed. I wish I could put things in words like that man. I have long since forgiven him his human misstep with Monica Lewinsky. I see him as the most honest US president in decades and I know that he now fights to help the WORLD.

VLC is just delicious

Have you seen Del.icio.us yet? It's an online community for sharing bookmarks basically. Now you know I always have to check what VLC brings up in tools like this. Well, the results are in.

Among the different interesting tidbits, I found this link to a website describing how to RIP Windows Media based Musicvideo's from Yahoo. The tutorial is pretty extensive, and applies to most other MMS streams as well. There is even a nice Flash video showing you the exact proces.

Google and VLC

I have always liked crawling trough Google search results for websites and images that look at, use, review, list etc. VLC in one way of another.

I have now created a small webpage that presents you with 6 random images from the Image search result of Google. It's fun to see what users do with their VLC. Give the page a whirl and see what you run into.

Added Google Adsense

Recently my website was abused by Referral Spammers. My ISP made a whole analysis of it. As a result of this, my statistics are currently no longer viewable outside my usual browsing location.

However the huge amount of hits this generated made me think. Why not use it? So I added Google Adsense and a Google referral button to the site. No idea if it's gonna bring in any money, but I might as well give it a try.

Website quality

As a true Netizen I so hate these "it looks good who cares if it's valid sites"....
A couple more examples:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.basketbuilders.nl%2F
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyradio.nl%2Findex.aspx

Life on the internet

My friend uchuu just pointed me at this brilliant tutorial of life on the Internet. It was created by Red vs. Blue.

Useless license

So the idiots from the Olympics Comittee always trying to make as much money from their material as possible, have decided that by linking to someting on their website www.athens2004.com, you will be agreeing to this license.

Are they completely insane? Last time I checked, deep linking and definetly normal linking, was perfectly legal and one of the most common procedures on the Internet. However they state that in order to link I actually need to write them a letter explaining WHY? And beyond that, the whole document is just rubbish. It has clearly been written by Americans, because such a license just isn't legal in the European Union. It's like the procedure where by opening a box, you agree to a legal document that is inside a box and which you therefore could never have laid your eyes on before agreeing with. Such a thing is legal in the US, but has been repeatedly kicked out of court in the E.U.

I say that everyone should post as much links to their site as possbile !!!!
By way of Ome reet

Update 21-9-2004 1:00 AM: Well looky here. They think they have the right to prevent you from your 1st amendment rights.

Mac OS X on your phone

Or at least the next best thing !!!
This site hosts a slew of mobile phone themedesigns for Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, Redhat, BSD, YellowTab Zeta and various Mac OS X versions. I own a Sony Ericsson T610 phone, and it now looks like this.

Flying a hornet

This is my first entry in my "Webbing" category, which will feature general stuff I stumble upon on the net. Today I found this great FA/18 Hornet Flash game. It's even fast as hell for a flash animation. As Top Gear's presentor Clarkson said: [accent: british] "This is really good fun!!" [/accent]