Wonder dickhead John Curry asked me if I'd told one of his "friends" that he, Curry, is a pervert.
Staggers the imagination considering the groups of which I'm a member or moderator.
John, you maggot, I told your friend that you are a convicted pedophile in the state of Florida, I gave your friend directions how to find you and I gave your friend a link to the page I made just for you and about you so anyone and everyone can see for themselves that you are worthless filth whose existence is anathema to the human condition.
You should become an hero immediately. Sooner if you can.
Not only are you a baby-raping scum of the worst possible kind, you are astonishingly stupid with it and all. You are less intellectually endowed than a rotten cabbage. When you do decide to become an hero, shoot yourself in the heart. If you put a bullet in your head, it wouldn't do any lasting damage.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Still at it...
When I did my Swamp newsletters years ago, one of them was about Telstra's business practices.
Looking over an ABC Online forum this morning, I found this little entry concerning Telstra call centres...
I don't know what the rest of this was going to say, but I just wanted to add that Telstra's call centres include a "Retention" department, a department designed to keep disaffected subscribers from moving to other companies. It's the role of Retention to (obviously) churn them back to Telstra during the mandatory cooling off period.
In my time at Dodo Internet, home of the very worst customer service ever, the Retention department was bigger than the sales department - who were all expected to meet or exceed their sales targets. Seems to me that if they paid more attention to providing customer service, they wouldn't need to spend nearly as much trying to keep customers who want to leave for greener pastures.
Looking over an ABC Online forum this morning, I found this little entry concerning Telstra call centres...
Well done!! A very accurate portrayal of the evironment with the Telstra Call Centre. I worked for Telstra for the last 7 years before being made redundant at the end of last year and most of that time I was in a Call Centre. My sincerest sympathy goes out to the families who lost thier loved ones.
It is generally the people who take pride in the standard of thier work who suffer the most in this enviroment. If you really do want to help people and are not motivated by the buck but really want to provide good customer service then it is a real challenge to stay sane in this organisation. In saying that there are still may wonderful people still there raising these matters with management on a day to day basis who are still fighting to be heard.
It may suprise most customers but it is generally the consultants in the Call Centres and the staff in contact with customers on a day to day basis who fight the hardest for customers rights! They are the ones who will generally have to listen to the complaints so believe me when I say, if the company makes a decission that they beielve will not be recieved well by the customer they fight hard for you.
While Mr Rolland makes the point that there has to be measures that are required for scheduling, which is necessary, however, it is how these measures are put in place that makes the difference. You are expected address the customers initial enquiry and then look for opportunities to up sell or cross sell to every customer, and do all of this in an average of 300- 600 seconds or there abouts. This does does not leave a lot of time for customer service. If this time frame was increased then it would mean that you would need MORE staff to answer the amount of calls that they anticipate at any given time, which is why they do not want to increase this target.
Inevitably, this means that a consultant will hurry through the basics of your call, try and sell you something and then get you off the phone. If your initial enquiry is too difficult then they will "transfer you to another area" rather then get stuck with a complex enquiry and move on the next sale. Then someone else has to take then call that has just been transferred. It's called the Telstra Two step. In my expereince, most customers just want their enquiry dealth with efficently and to have it done right the first time. If the managers would realise this, there may not be so many mistakes and therfore there would be less phones calls to deal with when people have to ring back 3 or 4 times toget something fixed. And the more angry and frustrated a customer is the longer the call is going to take!
While the internal message is Customer first, all of the targets and incentives are sales based and sales focused and there is very little recognition for customer service. Generally the people who really do want to help people and provide excellent customer service are the o
I don't know what the rest of this was going to say, but I just wanted to add that Telstra's call centres include a "Retention" department, a department designed to keep disaffected subscribers from moving to other companies. It's the role of Retention to (obviously) churn them back to Telstra during the mandatory cooling off period.
In my time at Dodo Internet, home of the very worst customer service ever, the Retention department was bigger than the sales department - who were all expected to meet or exceed their sales targets. Seems to me that if they paid more attention to providing customer service, they wouldn't need to spend nearly as much trying to keep customers who want to leave for greener pastures.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Another one bites the dust.
Darryl the fat pedo scumbag in Adelaide's southern suburbs got arrested this week and has had his computer seized.
Sux to be you, Darryl. Become an hero? It's really not as bad as you think.
Despite the Sunday Mail having had the story in its pipeline for only a couple of weeks, it's one on which I've been working since late last year. We got him booted out of his SNS and that would have been an end of it except for the fact he came back and one of the kids found him and then I found him.
It didn't take all that long to find "evidence" on one site but it wasn't good enough. It was only by watching and following his comments that we managed to get his msn and from there, his membership of 4 networking sites which led to his arrest this week.
One of the kids got him to tell us when he'd be returning from a holiday in New Zealand too so it was a nice welcome home - for us anyway. lol
This story was especially pleasing because one of my haters alerted Darryl to the page I made for him on my website. He deleted 2 of the accounts I put up in there but his other two accounts are still active. That kinda tells me that he didn't think my reach would extend into his offline world. I have every confidence in the ability of police to retrieve any information he might have tried to delete from his hard drive too.
And I'll be watching his other profiles to see if they mysteriously disappear or have info added to them to the affect that he's been busted.
I really just hope he kills himself while he's out on bail. It's been known to happen in the past and word of his arrest and the reasons for it are bound to get around his football club and tennis club and elsewhere which should deprive him of all his support networks. Becoming an hero would be in his best interests.
He's out on bail, that means he's very unlikely to get a custodial sentence if the police press charges and he's convicted. But I'm not finished with Darryl yet.
The kid who put me on his trail was only 13 at the time. Justice in South Australia might determine his debt to South Australians but I'm not South Australian and neither is that 13yo.
Det-Sgt Peter Rodney of the South Australian Sexual Crime Investigation Branch may be in receipt of more information on Darryl before this gets to court if I have anything to do with it.
Sux to be you, Darryl. Become an hero? It's really not as bad as you think.
Despite the Sunday Mail having had the story in its pipeline for only a couple of weeks, it's one on which I've been working since late last year. We got him booted out of his SNS and that would have been an end of it except for the fact he came back and one of the kids found him and then I found him.
It didn't take all that long to find "evidence" on one site but it wasn't good enough. It was only by watching and following his comments that we managed to get his msn and from there, his membership of 4 networking sites which led to his arrest this week.
One of the kids got him to tell us when he'd be returning from a holiday in New Zealand too so it was a nice welcome home - for us anyway. lol
This story was especially pleasing because one of my haters alerted Darryl to the page I made for him on my website. He deleted 2 of the accounts I put up in there but his other two accounts are still active. That kinda tells me that he didn't think my reach would extend into his offline world. I have every confidence in the ability of police to retrieve any information he might have tried to delete from his hard drive too.
And I'll be watching his other profiles to see if they mysteriously disappear or have info added to them to the affect that he's been busted.
I really just hope he kills himself while he's out on bail. It's been known to happen in the past and word of his arrest and the reasons for it are bound to get around his football club and tennis club and elsewhere which should deprive him of all his support networks. Becoming an hero would be in his best interests.
He's out on bail, that means he's very unlikely to get a custodial sentence if the police press charges and he's convicted. But I'm not finished with Darryl yet.
The kid who put me on his trail was only 13 at the time. Justice in South Australia might determine his debt to South Australians but I'm not South Australian and neither is that 13yo.
Det-Sgt Peter Rodney of the South Australian Sexual Crime Investigation Branch may be in receipt of more information on Darryl before this gets to court if I have anything to do with it.
Friday, February 08, 2008
Remember SoClear?
No, it's not the Church of Scientology's latest skin care package, it's a worldwide pedo information exchange on Yahoo. They have a creepy beyond belief channel on YouTube that makes this writer feel like switching YouTube off. (Even though I never clicked on even one of Bong's links.)
Well, it looks like they've got their own messageboard now - called SoFightBack.
It started this week by the look of it, has only 5 members and 3 posts so far, but one of those members is ELP.
EVERYONE in the anti-pedo community should know who ELP is. He's almost as much part and parcel of that crowd as was DLW who got jailed late last year.
Having just looked over the Wikisposure page, I noticed neither of those two creeps has a listing.
Come on Pee-J, I thought you were the best in the world. Maybe I got that wrong and the only kids you care about are American kids.
Fancy that because DLW is VERY famous. He was one of the first to bitch about Justin Berry turning state's evidence (laying all the blame on Justin of course - DLW is a pedophile, therefore he's as cowardly as they all are).
Well, it looks like they've got their own messageboard now - called SoFightBack.
It started this week by the look of it, has only 5 members and 3 posts so far, but one of those members is ELP.
EVERYONE in the anti-pedo community should know who ELP is. He's almost as much part and parcel of that crowd as was DLW who got jailed late last year.
Having just looked over the Wikisposure page, I noticed neither of those two creeps has a listing.
Come on Pee-J, I thought you were the best in the world. Maybe I got that wrong and the only kids you care about are American kids.
Fancy that because DLW is VERY famous. He was one of the first to bitch about Justin Berry turning state's evidence (laying all the blame on Justin of course - DLW is a pedophile, therefore he's as cowardly as they all are).That's David Williams, the pedo maggot scumbag.
Not so chipper now, are you David.
Cunt.
Wish I could remember who put that arrest on the board.
Anyway, in other news, the Australian Federal Police rang me from Canberra on Wednesday about a report I filed in the UK about a month ago.
The hardest part of reporting stuff you've seen happening to other people's kids is that without the incident being reported by the kids themselves, there's not a hell of a lot to go on. And when the kids won't even talk to their parents about what's happened, what hope is there of getting them to talk to police?
This one affects me personally because the kid did so much to improve the situation - didn't just sit there being a victim, didn't just 'let things take their course and deal with it as best you can'. This was one brave kid who just doesn't happen to have parental backing when it comes to taking the steps vital to prevent the same thing from happening to other kids.
My crew and I are also in touch with CEOP for a manual on the best way to secure the arrest of online predators. This is where my crew differ from Pee-J. My crew aren't just trained adults. They're fairly savvy adults and they're kids from 14 - 17 who are turning the tables on perverted filthbags by KNOWING WHAT TO DO WHEN A PERVERT STARTS A CHAT.
Yes, that's right. Perverts don't just mistakenly chat to undercover Pee-J operatives, perverts actually chat to real kids as well. The standard advice is "block them, delete them, report abuse."
Erm, pardon me but fuck off.
The kids in my crew are fed to the back teeth of that kind of 'action' and they're so fed up with perverts hitting on them they want to take active steps to prevent it. The stupid 1950's patriarchal attitude goes something along the lines of "This is no job for a kid, let an adult take care of it."
But what happens when a kid hands it over to an adult?
Bloody nothing of course, because the adults have bugger all idea what to do about it either. So, I've got a bunch of people - including kids - who WANT to take action so by Christ I'm going to do whatever I can to make sure if or when the time comes, they know exactly what to do in order to maximise the possibility of getting a pervert arrested.
Oh... Sorry Phillip, that's the non-American way of doing business on the internet. You don't wait for the nursemaid to clean up, you learn to clean up for yourself.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Another site
I've been trialing freehosting websites for the last few weeks before I transfer a finished product to my own domain.
Most of them are complete crap, which I sort of expected but I did at least expect to be able to upload and update the site contents as and when I wanted.
They all have the same cPanel editing which is geared to complete novices at web design which didn't suit me at all, so I design the site on my desktop then upload it as code when the page is done. No problems.
Well... that is until I opened the site in Firefox and IE and noticed the vast difference in layout between the two browsers, then the browser hacking started and it took me 4 hours to get rid of as many bugs and tweak the code so it presents almost identically in both browsers.
I tried to upload the code in 2 of the 5 free hosting sites I picked and one just wouldn't even let me into the cPanel environment.
The other, after wrestling with the code, I joined the host's forum and made a note of how much of a bitch it was manipulating the css to cater for the different browsers and lo and behold, when I signed in tonight to do more updating, the best site of the 5 I've tried fixed up the css issue and now it's twice as easy and convenient as it was before.
So, if you're looking for a free webhosting service with no banner ads, no pop-ups or pop-unders, I seriously suggest trotting along to 977mb.com and signing up.
Sure there are hosts with more space allowance; I got ones with 2gb, 5gb and 10gb but what's the point when almost 1gb is more than enough for what I'm doing and the site actually works and the admins are on the ball and responsive.
I've got a great switched on team helping with everything as well. As usual, they're spread out across the country and around the world, but having people in 4 timezones is a huge bonus.
^ * ^ * ^ * ^ * ^
In other news, if anyone was wondering how much damage an internet stalker can do in real life, one of the kids had a stalker log in to his msn and start messaging contacts. I was woken by a phone call at 5.30 in the morning from Boston because the stalker thought it would be funny to get this kid's mates to "show more than (their) faces" on webcam by this creep.
The kid has to face these people at school next week and explain that it wasn't him and why this cretin is stalking him. It's all happening in England too which makes it almost impossible for me to trot round to the stalker's place and give him a fat dose of how's yer aunty.
I did the next best thing though; I gathered all the logs from all the kids involved and emailed the whole lot off to Scotland Yard with as much detail as I know about the creep who's doing it.
So, if you know Keiron Harkin of Preston, Lancs, do be sure and brick the maggot's windows.
^ * ^ * ^ * ^ * ^ * ^
The party in Narre Warren made me laugh a bit.
The media scrum afterwards made me sick to the pit of my stomach. If I were Corey Delaney, I'd be pressing assault charges on that fucker who manhandled him in the radio studio.
On A Current Affair, the reporter seemed proud after waiting around outside a police station all day for a chance of catching a glimpse of 2008's first hero, he got wind of the fact Corey was at Frankston beach and the media circus stalked the lad even there. Creepy suckholes.
They're all over the kid like sunburn and because Corey won't take off those epic sunnies, they hate him. They can't understand why he won't co-operate. They ask him megalithicly stupid questions like "do you regret what you did?" to which Corey quite rightly says "I didn't do the damage, so I'm not responsible for what other people did."
He's kicking the media's arse with his attitude and that is fantastic. No he ain't gunna toe the media line and no he ain't gunna be made to feel contrite because of stupid questions about morality and responsibility.
He's 16 not 24!! He lives in Narre Warren, not some salacious upmarket utopian suburb.
The more Corey refuses to bow to media pressure, the more the rest of the non-deadhearted sections of the population cheer him and the more intense the media scrutiny becomes.
He's been offered a guest spot as a host for Big Brother 2008. I wonder how many more slightly savvy but equally creepy media bosses will jump on the band wagon and try to make him bow their will by offering bribes.
I just get the feeling it either won't happen or it'll be a monumental disaster for them. You don't tame kids like Corey Delaney. You find out what he likes and get him to put his name on stuff. How perfect would it be for RayBan or Oakley to have their sunnies on that kid's face.
Most of them are complete crap, which I sort of expected but I did at least expect to be able to upload and update the site contents as and when I wanted.
They all have the same cPanel editing which is geared to complete novices at web design which didn't suit me at all, so I design the site on my desktop then upload it as code when the page is done. No problems.
Well... that is until I opened the site in Firefox and IE and noticed the vast difference in layout between the two browsers, then the browser hacking started and it took me 4 hours to get rid of as many bugs and tweak the code so it presents almost identically in both browsers.
I tried to upload the code in 2 of the 5 free hosting sites I picked and one just wouldn't even let me into the cPanel environment.
The other, after wrestling with the code, I joined the host's forum and made a note of how much of a bitch it was manipulating the css to cater for the different browsers and lo and behold, when I signed in tonight to do more updating, the best site of the 5 I've tried fixed up the css issue and now it's twice as easy and convenient as it was before.
So, if you're looking for a free webhosting service with no banner ads, no pop-ups or pop-unders, I seriously suggest trotting along to 977mb.com and signing up.
Sure there are hosts with more space allowance; I got ones with 2gb, 5gb and 10gb but what's the point when almost 1gb is more than enough for what I'm doing and the site actually works and the admins are on the ball and responsive.
I've got a great switched on team helping with everything as well. As usual, they're spread out across the country and around the world, but having people in 4 timezones is a huge bonus.
^ * ^ * ^ * ^ * ^
In other news, if anyone was wondering how much damage an internet stalker can do in real life, one of the kids had a stalker log in to his msn and start messaging contacts. I was woken by a phone call at 5.30 in the morning from Boston because the stalker thought it would be funny to get this kid's mates to "show more than (their) faces" on webcam by this creep.
The kid has to face these people at school next week and explain that it wasn't him and why this cretin is stalking him. It's all happening in England too which makes it almost impossible for me to trot round to the stalker's place and give him a fat dose of how's yer aunty.
I did the next best thing though; I gathered all the logs from all the kids involved and emailed the whole lot off to Scotland Yard with as much detail as I know about the creep who's doing it.
So, if you know Keiron Harkin of Preston, Lancs, do be sure and brick the maggot's windows.
^ * ^ * ^ * ^ * ^ * ^
The party in Narre Warren made me laugh a bit.
The media scrum afterwards made me sick to the pit of my stomach. If I were Corey Delaney, I'd be pressing assault charges on that fucker who manhandled him in the radio studio.
On A Current Affair, the reporter seemed proud after waiting around outside a police station all day for a chance of catching a glimpse of 2008's first hero, he got wind of the fact Corey was at Frankston beach and the media circus stalked the lad even there. Creepy suckholes.
They're all over the kid like sunburn and because Corey won't take off those epic sunnies, they hate him. They can't understand why he won't co-operate. They ask him megalithicly stupid questions like "do you regret what you did?" to which Corey quite rightly says "I didn't do the damage, so I'm not responsible for what other people did."
He's kicking the media's arse with his attitude and that is fantastic. No he ain't gunna toe the media line and no he ain't gunna be made to feel contrite because of stupid questions about morality and responsibility.
He's 16 not 24!! He lives in Narre Warren, not some salacious upmarket utopian suburb.
The more Corey refuses to bow to media pressure, the more the rest of the non-deadhearted sections of the population cheer him and the more intense the media scrutiny becomes.
He's been offered a guest spot as a host for Big Brother 2008. I wonder how many more slightly savvy but equally creepy media bosses will jump on the band wagon and try to make him bow their will by offering bribes.
I just get the feeling it either won't happen or it'll be a monumental disaster for them. You don't tame kids like Corey Delaney. You find out what he likes and get him to put his name on stuff. How perfect would it be for RayBan or Oakley to have their sunnies on that kid's face.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Bloody YouTube, the tightarses..
500 character comment limit my arse.
Here's the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXXaAdi4XTE&NR=1
And here's the comment:
16 in a row - the last 2 against blokes with mos. Sam Kekovich has the answer: You can't expect a top team to adopt a policy and then abandon it at the first sign of trouble. A bunch of left wing bleeding heart soft cocks would bow to the forces of nature and grow back the mo to regain that lost aura of masculinity but what a lot of bullshit that is. Look at all the mo wearing poofters in history, Mercury, Olivier, Dumbledore... The true test of courage is the team that turns adversity to its advantage and "natural forces" on its head and drags the rest of the world kicking and screaming into its own future and ignoring those un-Australian forces still living in 2005 that think the mo maketh the man. It doesn't. Not any more. The Australian way is only the way and the rest of the world has to accept that if they want to get anywhere in this life. Them and those mo wearing jungle bunnies comprehensively thrashed by the all-conquering hero test nation of the planet have to smarten up their thinking, throw a lamb chop on the barbie and crack open an ice cold beer.
And the best cold beer is Vic.
You know it makes sense.
Here's the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXXaAdi4XTE&NR=1
And here's the comment:
16 in a row - the last 2 against blokes with mos. Sam Kekovich has the answer: You can't expect a top team to adopt a policy and then abandon it at the first sign of trouble. A bunch of left wing bleeding heart soft cocks would bow to the forces of nature and grow back the mo to regain that lost aura of masculinity but what a lot of bullshit that is. Look at all the mo wearing poofters in history, Mercury, Olivier, Dumbledore... The true test of courage is the team that turns adversity to its advantage and "natural forces" on its head and drags the rest of the world kicking and screaming into its own future and ignoring those un-Australian forces still living in 2005 that think the mo maketh the man. It doesn't. Not any more. The Australian way is only the way and the rest of the world has to accept that if they want to get anywhere in this life. Them and those mo wearing jungle bunnies comprehensively thrashed by the all-conquering hero test nation of the planet have to smarten up their thinking, throw a lamb chop on the barbie and crack open an ice cold beer.
And the best cold beer is Vic.
You know it makes sense.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Here we go again - Judges, wtf??
This landed in my inbox today...
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22946347-2,00.html
Ok, so the judge explains himself in a manner I reckon is just plain confused but further on in the story, there's this bit of utter stupidity...
For fuck's sake, the kid was 11, he's not ABLE to give consent. Are you all fucking sunstruck up there or stupid or what? What the hell is the judiciary coming to? Are they all following last year's lead of UK judges who trotted out similar bullshit?
I just don't get it.
These people are supposed to be legal authorities.
The cops do their job and I have enormous respect for the work they do. Investigations are actually able to proceed despite the unbelievable amount of mire through which cops have to wade so how do the poor coppers feel when a year long investigation ends up with a bullshit result like that.
I've got 4 things on the go with cops at this moment. Every day brings new information, every day there's another kid telling me stuff they're embarrassed to tell the authorities. With a judiciary and legal system that trots out this kind of insanity, what the fuck am I supposed to tell those kids????
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22946347-2,00.html
TWO men and three teenagers who sexually abused an 11-year-old boy at a remote Top End Aboriginal community should not be called rapists, according to a Supreme Court judge.
Ok, so the judge explains himself in a manner I reckon is just plain confused but further on in the story, there's this bit of utter stupidity...
"They have to prove not only that the victim didn't consent, but that the offender or offenders were aware that the victim was not consenting."
For fuck's sake, the kid was 11, he's not ABLE to give consent. Are you all fucking sunstruck up there or stupid or what? What the hell is the judiciary coming to? Are they all following last year's lead of UK judges who trotted out similar bullshit?
I just don't get it.
These people are supposed to be legal authorities.
The cops do their job and I have enormous respect for the work they do. Investigations are actually able to proceed despite the unbelievable amount of mire through which cops have to wade so how do the poor coppers feel when a year long investigation ends up with a bullshit result like that.
I've got 4 things on the go with cops at this moment. Every day brings new information, every day there's another kid telling me stuff they're embarrassed to tell the authorities. With a judiciary and legal system that trots out this kind of insanity, what the fuck am I supposed to tell those kids????
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
And the wheels on the bus...
This guy asks a "serious" question...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMY8vr2ktGY
This guy is your perfect answer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gj36RklMJY
Just bring back the noose, there is no such thing as rehabilitation for those creeps because they refuse to accept there is anything wrong with themselves for a start AND they're campaigning for equal rights and protections so they're not subjected to the same prejudices and hate propaganda formerly suffered by gays, blacks and women and, they say, Jews.
Gimme a break!
Spend just one week doing what I've been doing all year and then come back with a pedophile apologist's line. One week. I fucking dare you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMY8vr2ktGY
This guy is your perfect answer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gj36RklMJY
Just bring back the noose, there is no such thing as rehabilitation for those creeps because they refuse to accept there is anything wrong with themselves for a start AND they're campaigning for equal rights and protections so they're not subjected to the same prejudices and hate propaganda formerly suffered by gays, blacks and women and, they say, Jews.
Gimme a break!
Spend just one week doing what I've been doing all year and then come back with a pedophile apologist's line. One week. I fucking dare you.
randomness.
Last week I was given an email address to communicate directly with a particular detective sergeant here in Melbourne.
Bonus points or what!
Met Rutger Hauer the other week too. What a great bloke! Really friendly and actually spent some time to talk, not just parrot some crappy show-biz lines or advertising schtik.
I also bullied a particular social networking site into removing a member who is known to put the hard word on kids for webcam sessions. The CEO of the site himself came to visit my blog and within minutes, the profile had been blocked.
There is, of course, other stuff going on as well, but the people involved in all of that don't need me crowing on about what a great bunch of people they are so I won't, except to say it's the best bush telegraph ever.
Bonus points or what!
Met Rutger Hauer the other week too. What a great bloke! Really friendly and actually spent some time to talk, not just parrot some crappy show-biz lines or advertising schtik.
I also bullied a particular social networking site into removing a member who is known to put the hard word on kids for webcam sessions. The CEO of the site himself came to visit my blog and within minutes, the profile had been blocked.
There is, of course, other stuff going on as well, but the people involved in all of that don't need me crowing on about what a great bunch of people they are so I won't, except to say it's the best bush telegraph ever.
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Facing up
From last Monday's Register...
Mark Zuckerberg has been given a taste of his own medicine: his personal information is being plastered all over the web forever.
The Facebook boss has failed in a court bid to gag a magazine that published data including drunken extracts from his college diary and his social security number.
Federal judge Douglas Woodlock told the 23-year-old's lawyers on Friday that the independent Harvard alumni magazine 02138 had the right to release the documents, which were part of another court case.
02138's investigation centred on the dispute between Zuckerberg and the operators of ConnectU, another Harvard-founded social network. It's alleged that in the early days of Facebook, "the new Bill Gates" nicked ideas and source code from brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who had asked him to work on their project.
Digging into that period, freelance reporter Luke O'Brien turned up a series of depositions and other documents on a visit to the courthouse, and the magazine ran them in support of his article. The piece is sympathetic to the Winklevoss twins and reports accusations by classmates that Zuckerberg had lied in front of them.
Facebook lawyers applied to have the documents taken down on Thursday, saying the court had ordered them to be sealed.
A spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal: "One reason the court ordered certain documents' protection was to prevent exactly what has happened: misusing documents and taking documents out of context to sling mud."
Their failed application also attempted to force O'Brien to reveal how he obtained the files, since they had been locked up. He has maintained he was given them by a Federal Appeals Court clerk.
The judge denied all Facebook's claims. According to the New York Times, the clerk mistakenly handed over the files to O'Brien.
Zuckerberg and Co. will be hoping Friday's decision marks the end of a run of public embarrassments for Facebook. On Thursday, it was finally forced to bow to pressure over its creepy new ad system Beacon.
There could be more privacy-related defeats ahead, however. The UK's Information Commissioner is investigating Facebook's "Hotel California" policy on user data that means accounts can only be deactivated, never deleted.
For what I really want to say, well.. that's for my MySpace.
Mark Zuckerberg has been given a taste of his own medicine: his personal information is being plastered all over the web forever.
The Facebook boss has failed in a court bid to gag a magazine that published data including drunken extracts from his college diary and his social security number.
Federal judge Douglas Woodlock told the 23-year-old's lawyers on Friday that the independent Harvard alumni magazine 02138 had the right to release the documents, which were part of another court case.
02138's investigation centred on the dispute between Zuckerberg and the operators of ConnectU, another Harvard-founded social network. It's alleged that in the early days of Facebook, "the new Bill Gates" nicked ideas and source code from brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who had asked him to work on their project.
Digging into that period, freelance reporter Luke O'Brien turned up a series of depositions and other documents on a visit to the courthouse, and the magazine ran them in support of his article. The piece is sympathetic to the Winklevoss twins and reports accusations by classmates that Zuckerberg had lied in front of them.
Facebook lawyers applied to have the documents taken down on Thursday, saying the court had ordered them to be sealed.
A spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal: "One reason the court ordered certain documents' protection was to prevent exactly what has happened: misusing documents and taking documents out of context to sling mud."
Their failed application also attempted to force O'Brien to reveal how he obtained the files, since they had been locked up. He has maintained he was given them by a Federal Appeals Court clerk.
The judge denied all Facebook's claims. According to the New York Times, the clerk mistakenly handed over the files to O'Brien.
Zuckerberg and Co. will be hoping Friday's decision marks the end of a run of public embarrassments for Facebook. On Thursday, it was finally forced to bow to pressure over its creepy new ad system Beacon.
There could be more privacy-related defeats ahead, however. The UK's Information Commissioner is investigating Facebook's "Hotel California" policy on user data that means accounts can only be deactivated, never deleted.
For what I really want to say, well.. that's for my MySpace.
Monday, December 03, 2007
Good lawd!
There appears to still be one poor misguided idiot who thinks I have claimed to be anything more than a complete bastard.
Others, bless them, have credited me with being possessed of moral virtue, I never have.
Of course I can actually PROVE where others have said I'm a nice person, the liar leaving comments on my recent posts can't prove any of their claims. Not one. It's just the same old accusations based on distortions, false claims, misconceptions and half truths. But not one skerrick of evidence.
Of course, this being the internet, unfounded accusations are par for the course, however what is absolutely unforgivable is to comment on someone's blog with the most boring lot of repetitive, sanctimonious and pompous load of old bollox time after time and more and more longwinded each time...
Look at my code of conduct... now look at the very first item in my code of conduct.
Got it?
Post whatever, just don't bore the fuck out of me with repetitive drivel which showcases your penchant for adjectives over actual objectives.
Others, bless them, have credited me with being possessed of moral virtue, I never have.
Of course I can actually PROVE where others have said I'm a nice person, the liar leaving comments on my recent posts can't prove any of their claims. Not one. It's just the same old accusations based on distortions, false claims, misconceptions and half truths. But not one skerrick of evidence.
Of course, this being the internet, unfounded accusations are par for the course, however what is absolutely unforgivable is to comment on someone's blog with the most boring lot of repetitive, sanctimonious and pompous load of old bollox time after time and more and more longwinded each time...
Look at my code of conduct... now look at the very first item in my code of conduct.
Got it?
Post whatever, just don't bore the fuck out of me with repetitive drivel which showcases your penchant for adjectives over actual objectives.
Friday, November 30, 2007
A lot of people??
One comment in the barrage of desperate (but amusingly prolific) comments to this blog yesterday said a lot of people are wondering about me.
It is, of course, a lie.
In the website Outfoxed, the argument from authority frequently used by Fox News journalists is exposed for its dishonesty. Some people say - is a fallacious argument.
Being from Liars Team HQ though, this sort of dishonesty is only to be expected. It's what they do, after all...
So, if a lot of people are wondering about me, the anonymous commenter must therefore be able to name at least a few of them...
They won't - that would lead to all sorts of discomfort for them. But it'll be interesting to see what lie they use to escape the burden of proof.
Go for it, liars.... who are these "lot of people"?
It is, of course, a lie.
In the website Outfoxed, the argument from authority frequently used by Fox News journalists is exposed for its dishonesty. Some people say - is a fallacious argument.
Being from Liars Team HQ though, this sort of dishonesty is only to be expected. It's what they do, after all...
So, if a lot of people are wondering about me, the anonymous commenter must therefore be able to name at least a few of them...
They won't - that would lead to all sorts of discomfort for them. But it'll be interesting to see what lie they use to escape the burden of proof.
Go for it, liars.... who are these "lot of people"?
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Truth comes out again...
I was wondering what had prompted the rash of attendees to this blog from Liars Team HQ last week, so I had myself a bit of a peruse for the 2nd time in about 4 months or so and found the following exchange...
c.I refuse to argue with someone who acts like Chatrat and who refuses to acknowledge when she fucks up and does the wrong thing.
This must be why Lea the Liar thinks she's perfect. (She SO did not tell me to tell her I love her even if I didn't mean it. -->fkn amazed emote picture here <-- ) She also SO ordered a copy of the play, (read "credit card declined" - couldn't afford $15)
The riposte by Clorox was fairly passable though...
C. Acting like ChatRat? Lol. I am so sick of your emotionally charged overreactions lately. I teased you in chat, and you said "I'm not talking to you anymore" just like Reesa does when someone disagrees. Now you're doing it here again. If I disclosed your credit card information, and told you you're fucking up your children, then perhaps you may have a point. However, you don't. You're lashing out, much like Reesa, and making random nonsensical stabbing motions. You're dropping your basket. Yet again. Quel surprise.
Welcome to the "Sick of Loopy Lea Club", Claratyne. Nice going though, the stupid cow had to come and revisit the dead brother theme she sooooo regretted last year. Truly though, how could anyone be surprised that Lea and Reesa are friends? They're both barking fucking mad schizoid breadknifing maniacs. (At least Reesa is good for a laugh though, even if it is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel.)
Oh, in case you both hadn't noticed, ChatRat has moved on. Clearly, you freaks need to do the same.
c.I refuse to argue with someone who acts like Chatrat and who refuses to acknowledge when she fucks up and does the wrong thing.
This must be why Lea the Liar thinks she's perfect. (She SO did not tell me to tell her I love her even if I didn't mean it. -->fkn amazed emote picture here <-- ) She also SO ordered a copy of the play, (read "credit card declined" - couldn't afford $15)
The riposte by Clorox was fairly passable though...
C. Acting like ChatRat? Lol. I am so sick of your emotionally charged overreactions lately. I teased you in chat, and you said "I'm not talking to you anymore" just like Reesa does when someone disagrees. Now you're doing it here again. If I disclosed your credit card information, and told you you're fucking up your children, then perhaps you may have a point. However, you don't. You're lashing out, much like Reesa, and making random nonsensical stabbing motions. You're dropping your basket. Yet again. Quel surprise.
Welcome to the "Sick of Loopy Lea Club", Claratyne. Nice going though, the stupid cow had to come and revisit the dead brother theme she sooooo regretted last year. Truly though, how could anyone be surprised that Lea and Reesa are friends? They're both barking fucking mad schizoid breadknifing maniacs. (At least Reesa is good for a laugh though, even if it is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel.)
Oh, in case you both hadn't noticed, ChatRat has moved on. Clearly, you freaks need to do the same.
Pedophiles are such fkn cowards.
dave harry says (2:59 AM):
asl
Paul says (2:59 AM):
40 male Australia and a friend of the girl you're trying to wank on cam for.
Paul says (2:59 AM):
guess what creep.
Paul says (2:59 AM):
you're busted
dave harry says (3:00 AM):
what
dave harry says (3:00 AM):
u taking a bout
Paul says (3:00 AM):
you want a c&p?
dave harry says (3:00 AM):
what
Paul says (3:00 AM):
dave harry says:
u like cock
me says:
if some1 finds out u have been sayin this stuff
dave harry says:
they wont
dave harry says:
any way
me says:
how do ya no?
dave harry says:
dave harry says (3:00 AM):
not me
Paul says (3:01 AM):
nice try
Paul says (3:01 AM):
ain't gunna cut no ice with me
dave harry says (3:01 AM):
so what u going to do
dave harry says (3:01 AM):
come on
Paul says (3:01 AM):
hahaha..
Paul says (3:01 AM):
call her a bitch did you
dave harry says (3:01 AM):
nothing
Paul says (3:01 AM):
blame the kid
Paul says (3:02 AM):
go on, coward
dave harry says (3:02 AM):
i did
dave harry says (3:02 AM):
why are u chatting with her then
Paul says (3:03 AM):
because she asked for my help dealing with a cretin like you who thinks it's cool for a 25yo to j/o off cam for a girl he knows is only 14
dave harry says (3:03 AM):
she added me to all this
dave harry says (3:03 AM):
msn and net log??
dave harry says (3:03 AM):
so its chat
Paul says (3:03 AM):
so you're going to blame her again...
dave harry says (3:03 AM):
and when she want to me
Paul says (3:03 AM):
still isn't going to cut any ice with me.. you're the adult.
dave harry says (3:03 AM):
i wont any way
Paul says (3:04 AM):
what's more... I know you have her phone number and I'm warning you if you try to contact her by phone, she and I will both notify the police immediately.
dave harry says (3:04 AM):
i dont have her number
dave harry says (3:04 AM):
so how can i
dave harry says (3:05 AM):
so u are in her then
dave harry says (3:05 AM):
i am sorry
dave harry says (3:05 AM):
and when she gets on i will delete her
Paul says (3:05 AM):
She's already blocked and deleted you anyway
dave harry says (3:05 AM):
sweet
dave harry says (3:06 AM):
just seem that a 14 is want sex and cam with any 1
dave harry says (3:06 AM):
any way
dave harry says (3:06 AM):
its cool
Paul says (3:06 AM):
don't keep blaming her, she's a kid and as an adult you're supposed to know better
dave harry says (3:06 AM):
i wont txt/ msg at all
dave harry says (3:06 AM):
its chat
Paul says (3:06 AM):
how can you, you don't have her number
dave harry says (3:07 AM):
maybe she shoud lead guys on like she has
Paul says (3:07 AM):
it's not chat when you offer to j/o off cam... and the law takes a real dim view when you know she's underage
Paul says (3:07 AM):
oh man.. you best block me now.. you're just digging yourself into a deeper hole
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
point 1.... the day i she added me.... why
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
??
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
why??
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
tell me
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
..................................
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
u canrt
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
bye
Paul says (3:08 AM):
you are blaming a 14yo
dave harry says (3:09 AM):
no
dave harry says (3:09 AM):
i am not
Paul says (3:09 AM):
you knew she was 14 yet you still offered to j.o on cam for her
dave harry says (3:09 AM):
why the fck would she add some of that age
Paul says (3:09 AM):
you tried to deny it when I challenged you
dave harry says (3:09 AM):
and why would she lie about her age
Paul says (3:09 AM):
and she's talking to me - and she knows I'm 40
dave harry says (3:10 AM):
i have chatted with her 6 or 7 times and she hasnt told difrent
dave harry says (3:10 AM):
and why would she look at my cam if she was like want some
dave harry says (3:10 AM):
dont make sence
Paul says (3:10 AM):
then you don't need to bother talking to her any more then do you.
dave harry says (3:11 AM):
i wont
dave harry says (3:11 AM):
if she chats with me
dave harry says (3:11 AM):
she will be canned
dave harry says (3:11 AM):
not on
dave harry says (3:12 AM):
dude .... again sorry
dave harry says (3:12 AM):
but at her age why is lead guys on
dave harry says (3:12 AM):
??
Paul says (3:12 AM):
I have an answer to that but you're not going to get it.
dave harry says (3:13 AM):
in ur words
Paul says (3:13 AM):
In my words, I have an answer to your question but I'm not going to give it to you.
dave harry says (3:13 AM):
when?/ where
dave harry says (3:13 AM):
thats poor
dave harry says (3:13 AM):
say it
Paul says (3:14 AM):
There's nothing to say.. she told you she is 14 and you kept on with your chat. You've broken the law now just hope to hell she or I don't report you to Crimestoppers for it.
Paul says (3:15 AM):
we're both pretty familiar with the ceop.gov.uk website too.
dave harry says (3:15 AM):
i am from tasmaina dude,,, not the uk
dave harry says (3:15 AM):
so no
Paul says (3:15 AM):
so yeah... crimestoppes applies right to you...
Paul says (3:15 AM):
1800 333 000.. ring any bells?
dave harry says (3:16 AM):
no
dave harry says (3:16 AM):
why would i
Paul says (3:16 AM):
that's the cop hotline right around Australia
Paul says (3:16 AM):
it's a free call
Paul says (3:17 AM):
anyone can call anonymously...
Paul says (3:17 AM):
There's a website too
dave harry says (3:17 AM):
thanks 4 the tip
Paul says (3:17 AM):
where chatlogs can be uploaded
Paul says (3:17 AM):
am I being clear enough yet?
dave harry says (3:18 AM):
i am here 4 chat
dave harry says (3:18 AM):
and thats all
dave harry says (3:18 AM):
i am pissed and should be in bed
dave harry says (3:18 AM):
i am goin now
dave harry says (3:19 AM):
by the way
dave harry says (3:19 AM):
she been look at me today at net log?? why
Paul says (3:19 AM):
you're married with a kid.. why would you j/o on cam for her?
dave harry says (3:20 AM):
i am going to leave it here
Paul says (3:20 AM):
I bet you are
dave harry says (3:20 AM):
she has been deleted
Paul says (3:20 AM):
say hi to the missus for me
asl
Paul says (2:59 AM):
40 male Australia and a friend of the girl you're trying to wank on cam for.
Paul says (2:59 AM):
guess what creep.
Paul says (2:59 AM):
you're busted
dave harry says (3:00 AM):
what
dave harry says (3:00 AM):
u taking a bout
Paul says (3:00 AM):
you want a c&p?
dave harry says (3:00 AM):
what
Paul says (3:00 AM):
dave harry says:
u like cock
me says:
if some1 finds out u have been sayin this stuff
dave harry says:
they wont
dave harry says:
any way
me says:
how do ya no?
dave harry says:
dave harry says (3:00 AM):
not me
Paul says (3:01 AM):
nice try
Paul says (3:01 AM):
ain't gunna cut no ice with me
dave harry says (3:01 AM):
so what u going to do
dave harry says (3:01 AM):
come on
Paul says (3:01 AM):
hahaha..
Paul says (3:01 AM):
call her a bitch did you
dave harry says (3:01 AM):
nothing
Paul says (3:01 AM):
blame the kid
Paul says (3:02 AM):
go on, coward
dave harry says (3:02 AM):
i did
dave harry says (3:02 AM):
why are u chatting with her then
Paul says (3:03 AM):
because she asked for my help dealing with a cretin like you who thinks it's cool for a 25yo to j/o off cam for a girl he knows is only 14
dave harry says (3:03 AM):
she added me to all this
dave harry says (3:03 AM):
msn and net log??
dave harry says (3:03 AM):
so its chat
Paul says (3:03 AM):
so you're going to blame her again...
dave harry says (3:03 AM):
and when she want to me
Paul says (3:03 AM):
still isn't going to cut any ice with me.. you're the adult.
dave harry says (3:03 AM):
i wont any way
Paul says (3:04 AM):
what's more... I know you have her phone number and I'm warning you if you try to contact her by phone, she and I will both notify the police immediately.
dave harry says (3:04 AM):
i dont have her number
dave harry says (3:04 AM):
so how can i
dave harry says (3:05 AM):
so u are in her then
dave harry says (3:05 AM):
i am sorry
dave harry says (3:05 AM):
and when she gets on i will delete her
Paul says (3:05 AM):
She's already blocked and deleted you anyway
dave harry says (3:05 AM):
sweet
dave harry says (3:06 AM):
just seem that a 14 is want sex and cam with any 1
dave harry says (3:06 AM):
any way
dave harry says (3:06 AM):
its cool
Paul says (3:06 AM):
don't keep blaming her, she's a kid and as an adult you're supposed to know better
dave harry says (3:06 AM):
i wont txt/ msg at all
dave harry says (3:06 AM):
its chat
Paul says (3:06 AM):
how can you, you don't have her number
dave harry says (3:07 AM):
maybe she shoud lead guys on like she has
Paul says (3:07 AM):
it's not chat when you offer to j/o off cam... and the law takes a real dim view when you know she's underage
Paul says (3:07 AM):
oh man.. you best block me now.. you're just digging yourself into a deeper hole
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
point 1.... the day i she added me.... why
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
??
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
why??
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
tell me
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
..................................
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
u canrt
dave harry says (3:08 AM):
bye
Paul says (3:08 AM):
you are blaming a 14yo
dave harry says (3:09 AM):
no
dave harry says (3:09 AM):
i am not
Paul says (3:09 AM):
you knew she was 14 yet you still offered to j.o on cam for her
dave harry says (3:09 AM):
why the fck would she add some of that age
Paul says (3:09 AM):
you tried to deny it when I challenged you
dave harry says (3:09 AM):
and why would she lie about her age
Paul says (3:09 AM):
and she's talking to me - and she knows I'm 40
dave harry says (3:10 AM):
i have chatted with her 6 or 7 times and she hasnt told difrent
dave harry says (3:10 AM):
and why would she look at my cam if she was like want some
dave harry says (3:10 AM):
dont make sence
Paul says (3:10 AM):
then you don't need to bother talking to her any more then do you.
dave harry says (3:11 AM):
i wont
dave harry says (3:11 AM):
if she chats with me
dave harry says (3:11 AM):
she will be canned
dave harry says (3:11 AM):
not on
dave harry says (3:12 AM):
dude .... again sorry
dave harry says (3:12 AM):
but at her age why is lead guys on
dave harry says (3:12 AM):
??
Paul says (3:12 AM):
I have an answer to that but you're not going to get it.
dave harry says (3:13 AM):
in ur words
Paul says (3:13 AM):
In my words, I have an answer to your question but I'm not going to give it to you.
dave harry says (3:13 AM):
when?/ where
dave harry says (3:13 AM):
thats poor
dave harry says (3:13 AM):
say it
Paul says (3:14 AM):
There's nothing to say.. she told you she is 14 and you kept on with your chat. You've broken the law now just hope to hell she or I don't report you to Crimestoppers for it.
Paul says (3:15 AM):
we're both pretty familiar with the ceop.gov.uk website too.
dave harry says (3:15 AM):
i am from tasmaina dude,,, not the uk
dave harry says (3:15 AM):
so no
Paul says (3:15 AM):
so yeah... crimestoppes applies right to you...
Paul says (3:15 AM):
1800 333 000.. ring any bells?
dave harry says (3:16 AM):
no
dave harry says (3:16 AM):
why would i
Paul says (3:16 AM):
that's the cop hotline right around Australia
Paul says (3:16 AM):
it's a free call
Paul says (3:17 AM):
anyone can call anonymously...
Paul says (3:17 AM):
There's a website too
dave harry says (3:17 AM):
thanks 4 the tip
Paul says (3:17 AM):
where chatlogs can be uploaded
Paul says (3:17 AM):
am I being clear enough yet?
dave harry says (3:18 AM):
i am here 4 chat
dave harry says (3:18 AM):
and thats all
dave harry says (3:18 AM):
i am pissed and should be in bed
dave harry says (3:18 AM):
i am goin now
dave harry says (3:19 AM):
by the way
dave harry says (3:19 AM):
she been look at me today at net log?? why
Paul says (3:19 AM):
you're married with a kid.. why would you j/o on cam for her?
dave harry says (3:20 AM):
i am going to leave it here
Paul says (3:20 AM):
I bet you are
dave harry says (3:20 AM):
she has been deleted
Paul says (3:20 AM):
say hi to the missus for me
Friday, October 12, 2007
27 years ago...
My brother Christopher was born...
Not a day has passed when I haven't thought about him at least a hundred times.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Social networking sites
Suck.
They do. I've seen more heartache, pain and misery emanating from social networking sites than I've seen in a lot of places for a long time.
The filth are like a hidden army running through those sites, sometimes in packs and often in more than one site at a time, luring kids into god knows what.
Oli's brother grabbed me into one such site and after lurking there for a tad over 6 months now, I've managed to get one kid out of a nest of filth and I hope for all I'm worth I'm not too late to extricate another - and that's not even beginning to address the more than 850 kids who were on John Quan's friends list before the posse hounded him into submission, forced him to hide his MySpace picture, caught him out at Ringo and eventually stole his account. (that was me... lulz!)
Dirty fucking bastard was tricking underage girls into webcam shenanigans.
One bloody site, so many unhappy kids.
But in the midst of it all, and in the back of my mind has been my friends. In particular Oli, Marc and Anton. I've been giving so much of my time to fighting perverts at that shithole that I've been completely absent from those friends I really do love so much. (There's also the slight inconvenience of having to actually go into work and spend 8 or 9 hours at the office which I would otherwise have spent at home being pleasantly distracted, but hell, for double the pay, why not.)
So anyway, the upside of it is there's a bunch of new people to care about, in particular Justin, Andrew, Nick, Sara, Rory, Simon, Alej, Kat, Ray and Sue. It just makes me feel pretty low that I haven't been around at all for Oli, Marc, Wilbur, Mel and - and of course, His Lordship.
They do. I've seen more heartache, pain and misery emanating from social networking sites than I've seen in a lot of places for a long time.
The filth are like a hidden army running through those sites, sometimes in packs and often in more than one site at a time, luring kids into god knows what.
Oli's brother grabbed me into one such site and after lurking there for a tad over 6 months now, I've managed to get one kid out of a nest of filth and I hope for all I'm worth I'm not too late to extricate another - and that's not even beginning to address the more than 850 kids who were on John Quan's friends list before the posse hounded him into submission, forced him to hide his MySpace picture, caught him out at Ringo and eventually stole his account. (that was me... lulz!)
Dirty fucking bastard was tricking underage girls into webcam shenanigans.
One bloody site, so many unhappy kids.
But in the midst of it all, and in the back of my mind has been my friends. In particular Oli, Marc and Anton. I've been giving so much of my time to fighting perverts at that shithole that I've been completely absent from those friends I really do love so much. (There's also the slight inconvenience of having to actually go into work and spend 8 or 9 hours at the office which I would otherwise have spent at home being pleasantly distracted, but hell, for double the pay, why not.)
So anyway, the upside of it is there's a bunch of new people to care about, in particular Justin, Andrew, Nick, Sara, Rory, Simon, Alej, Kat, Ray and Sue. It just makes me feel pretty low that I haven't been around at all for Oli, Marc, Wilbur, Mel and - and of course, His Lordship.
Monday, July 09, 2007
Friday, June 29, 2007
The things we do...
I joined a couple of groups on Tuesday and now I'm fearing the worst. I met a couple of decent people and had words with one of the admin before we 'parted' on good terms but I also started something there that already looks like it's more than I can handle.
I'd like to do it but I feel too strongly for the friends I have already to even give the appearance of looking at moving on. Anton, Oli, Mel, Seth, Chris, Marc and all the rest mean a great deal to me and this new thing I did on Tuesday would not only demand more time than I am inclined to give it, it would be pretty much in competition with what the crew and I are still hopeful of achieving.
That's about all I feel like making publicly available right now.
Fuck timezone differences.
I'd like to do it but I feel too strongly for the friends I have already to even give the appearance of looking at moving on. Anton, Oli, Mel, Seth, Chris, Marc and all the rest mean a great deal to me and this new thing I did on Tuesday would not only demand more time than I am inclined to give it, it would be pretty much in competition with what the crew and I are still hopeful of achieving.
That's about all I feel like making publicly available right now.
Fuck timezone differences.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Uh oh.
I'm getting seriously twitchy about Vanessa Amorosi.
There are some voices that are pure, smooth, bell-like, have a great range etc...
Well, I'm not making any observations about the first three, but range? My GOD!
2000 Olympics rings in my ears, this 19 year old as was performing to an audience of billions and she carried it off just perfectly. Perfectly.
The song of choice, Heroes, could not have been better and I couldn't think of any other artist who could even have performed that song, let alone done it with such emphasis and heart as did Vanessa.
I remember back in the early 80s not thinking anything at all of Madonna. She was, to me anyway, just a slaggy popstar who sang trashy pop songs that I didn't especially like. Then, listening to the radio on my way home one afternoon, I heard the song "Live to Tell" and my mind was blown. That woman has been an idol of mine ever since. I haven't gone ga-ga about all her songs, but even JS Bach did stuff I don't like. But I still respected the woman.
I didn't pay a great deal of attention to the Olympic Games opening ceremony in 2000 either. I did arc up when they announced an obscure artist was going to sing - because I wanted to see who the obscure artist was. (Nicki whatsernamie floating above the arena was just way too creepy for me and I don't like her strangled canary voice either) I was hoping it wasn't going to be her.
Then came the trumpet fanfare, the arena went quiet and this song of enormous pathos filled that space and charged it. The echo, the atmosphere and the aura of anticipation as the subtle beat behind the flow of the lyrics generated the sort of electricity it is impossible to ignore.
Then at the climax, the beat takes over and the lyrics sound out like a clarion call to the essence of humanity. Heroes live forever. And don't they?
What a way to open the biggest competition Earth has to offer. Mindblowing.
And that final burst of Heroes Live Forever - how long is that last note? How many beats? I can only just hold my breath for that long and she's belting out that note like her lungs were about to explode out of her chest and there's not a hint of fade in it.
Just incredible.
And to think, she was just 19. If what she did 7 years ago isn't deserving of admiration and respect, nothing ever was or will be.
There are some voices that are pure, smooth, bell-like, have a great range etc...
Well, I'm not making any observations about the first three, but range? My GOD!
2000 Olympics rings in my ears, this 19 year old as was performing to an audience of billions and she carried it off just perfectly. Perfectly.
The song of choice, Heroes, could not have been better and I couldn't think of any other artist who could even have performed that song, let alone done it with such emphasis and heart as did Vanessa.
I remember back in the early 80s not thinking anything at all of Madonna. She was, to me anyway, just a slaggy popstar who sang trashy pop songs that I didn't especially like. Then, listening to the radio on my way home one afternoon, I heard the song "Live to Tell" and my mind was blown. That woman has been an idol of mine ever since. I haven't gone ga-ga about all her songs, but even JS Bach did stuff I don't like. But I still respected the woman.
I didn't pay a great deal of attention to the Olympic Games opening ceremony in 2000 either. I did arc up when they announced an obscure artist was going to sing - because I wanted to see who the obscure artist was. (Nicki whatsernamie floating above the arena was just way too creepy for me and I don't like her strangled canary voice either) I was hoping it wasn't going to be her.
Then came the trumpet fanfare, the arena went quiet and this song of enormous pathos filled that space and charged it. The echo, the atmosphere and the aura of anticipation as the subtle beat behind the flow of the lyrics generated the sort of electricity it is impossible to ignore.
Then at the climax, the beat takes over and the lyrics sound out like a clarion call to the essence of humanity. Heroes live forever. And don't they?
What a way to open the biggest competition Earth has to offer. Mindblowing.
And that final burst of Heroes Live Forever - how long is that last note? How many beats? I can only just hold my breath for that long and she's belting out that note like her lungs were about to explode out of her chest and there's not a hint of fade in it.
Just incredible.
And to think, she was just 19. If what she did 7 years ago isn't deserving of admiration and respect, nothing ever was or will be.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
In this message, you laugh, you lose.
http://www.netauthority.org/offenders/1863.shtml
I lawled big time.
Netauthority is a byword for racism and aids on the internet. The subtly filthy designs of their website and their IAUP are more hateful than anything I read in Mein Kampf or Machiavelli. The arseholes behind netauthority are the cancer that is killing society. I hope they all fuck off and die today.
They have banned the Wiggles for "hateful content". Yes, The Wiggles. How demented are these people? They also say there were no dinosaurs, God put the fossils there to test man's faith in him. Bitter irony, eh.
Also Bags, since you'd been vanished for 2 years or so, I've lost your contact details. If you wants to catch up, you is going to have to give them to me again. My details are all still the same.
I lawled big time.
Netauthority is a byword for racism and aids on the internet. The subtly filthy designs of their website and their IAUP are more hateful than anything I read in Mein Kampf or Machiavelli. The arseholes behind netauthority are the cancer that is killing society. I hope they all fuck off and die today.
They have banned the Wiggles for "hateful content". Yes, The Wiggles. How demented are these people? They also say there were no dinosaurs, God put the fossils there to test man's faith in him. Bitter irony, eh.
Also Bags, since you'd been vanished for 2 years or so, I've lost your contact details. If you wants to catch up, you is going to have to give them to me again. My details are all still the same.
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