I was Thinking, or Not

Looking Out So much hope for the future, yet a lot of maybe, and not much more than promises.  I have seen a lot of really cool stuff, and lots that looks like it will make a difference, but will it really.  The second big question, will politics get in the way. 2012, it is the end of the world as we know it?  I really hope so, because we really need to move on.  Here are some things I am looking for, simple stupid things mostly, but let us see if this can be done, and we will move on from there. Portable printer , a nice laser printer, doesn’t have to be color, but it needs to print a full 8.5x11 or at least A4 piece of paper, regular paper, since we can not seem to get beyond paper.  I have seen some alright portable scanners , but I can scan a document with my phone, so that is moot, printers is what we need.  If we can get a portable mono chrome laser printer to be about the size of the portable scanners that would do it.  Not likely, not enough d...

Okay people, here we go, so much has been said about this bill, it has so to speak crossed my desk, so I will look at it and herein begin to understand it, it that is possible.  Most of what is presented is out of context and furthermore, it is derived from the CRS Summary, which is a summary of the bill.  At some point I may take the text to hand, but for now, let us start with this. 1st.  Requires online service providers, Internet search engines, payment network providers, and Internet advertising services, upon receiving a copy of a court order relating to an AG action, to carry out certain preventative measures including withholding services from an infringing site or preventing users located in the United States from accessing the infringing site . Requires payment network providers and Internet advertising services, upon receiving a copy of such an order relating to a right holder's action, to carry out similar preventative measures. For the most part, the lan...

Link to full article with images that did not transfer for some reason Well first I will start with death, since it is the place that seems to be of most interest to most people.  Some well known people died this year, but that is true with every year, so I am not going to post a bunch of names, there are tons of list on the web that do that.  This year we all know about the loss of Apple’s bigger than life leader Steve Jobs .  We also should mention that there were many other pioneers of the computing industry that also past.   Wired provides a decent list of them, although it seems to be missing something, and it has some errors in content, it is a list just the same.  To me the really weird part is that I am almost their age, and wonder, is it the computer that has taken their lives this way. Well before I go down that rabbit hole, let me move on to other things that happened, and what is significant to 2011.  A lot personally has happened to me ...