Living the Digital Life
While browsing Facebook recently, I noticed that many people seem to have an overload of apps that are less useful than the more well known apps. I have compiled a list with these apps, which I hope you will enjoy. Accompanying the listing are some comments that I have made.
P.S. I wouldn’t sign up for these.
Ruh Roh. While browsing results for some band research about Children of Bodom, I noticed a link to Fulltorrent.
I clicked, yet I got an error message. More specifically, a “Site has been suspended” message.
I hope this doesn’t mean the end for Fulltorrent. In addition, I hope J.K. Rowling’s lawyers aren’t behind this.
I have taken a screen shot, and added my own commentary.
If you have any more details, or would like to just plain speculate, feel free to leave a comment. Tell me that I am being alarmist.
P.S. If you want something fun to do for a couple of days, print spoilers on your car, and drive around, park next to Harry Potter fanbois, and recite the spoilers by heart.
Yesterday, I headlined a post about TorrentFreak linking to a copy of Harry Potter’s book. Today, TorrentFreak is underattack by Ms. Rowling’s bloodthirsty lawyers. Here is the main body of text that pertains to the matter.
update: A few minutes ago we received an anonymous e-mail from a “Harry Potter” fan who threatened to take down TorrentFreak if we didn’t remove our article about the leak of of “Deathly Hallows” (apparently afraid of spoilers, feel free to laugh).
He claims (with an army of Potter fanboys) to be responsible for the “attack” on our servers. Of course we don’t negotiate with terrorists! Besides that, I doubt that he’s really behind it.
update: On a sidenote, J.K. Rowling’s lawyers asked us to take down our Harry Potter leak article. Pretty strange because it is just a news post mainstream media like The New York Times, CNET, The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal also posted articles about the leak after we broke the news.
I will keep you filled in as more details emerge.
Recently, I have been reading Liar’s Poker, a title that refers to a game much like the one played in Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Except there are two major differences. [The game Liar's poker is described here]
The First: They are playing with numbers on dollar bills, and not the dice version.
The Second: they are playing for millions of dollars, not for years spent on a sailing ship. Both are played by swash buckling pirates.
The premise of the book is the entertaining, yet cut throat nature of business at Soloman Brothers, one of the largest investment banks that traded in bonds. The book trails the writer and his rise through the company ranks, and it is quite interesting.
Just want to do a quick linking to a post I got via Digg about Yahoo Pipes. It is very informative, and it nudged me toward the decision to use Yahoo Pipes for the “Feed Mashup” I was considering of all the blogs mentioned on the list.
This it what the author said about Pipes.
Yahoo describes Pipes as “an interactive data aggregator and manipulator that lets you mashup your favorite online data sources”. Alright, but what does that mean to the rest of us? Yahoo Pipes uses an easy-to-understand visual editor that allows you to (among other things) take multiple RSS feeds, combine and filter them, and then output all of that information to one RSS feed.
Currently, I am working on that, however if any of you are interested in how it is done, I have provided the link here.
You should be expecting me to post the Memetracker soon…