w00t w00t booyah

The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had contacted the social networking service Twitter to urge it to delay a planned upgrade that would have cut daytime service to Iranians who are disputing their election.

I love having a geek in the White House. Suck on THAT, McCain - you idiot.

Iran needs to fix Iran's problems...but making sure Twitter stays up won't hurt, either. *winks*

(The fact Twitter is an incorporated company in San Franciso just warms the cockles of my little heart. Hello, chief export - the counterculture, now upgraded for the new millenium.)

That's one. Two, I find it ironic as heck that the most curt method of communicating over the internet is turning into the most effective (and heroic) one with regards to events transpiring half a world away in Iran. (Go Iran! Go!) Makes one think about the days of morse code and ham radio....

If I had a way of moving some of those mobile satellite uplinks from India into Iran...how far can you broadcast a wireless signal, anyway?

Still not going to Twit anytime soon, but thanks for asking. (I may have to cave for AX, though. Wouldn't THAT be ironic?)

I've told you. I don't Twit, don't ask me.

Amazon. You know. I know. About what. What I'd like to know is what else got delisted/ It's almost impossible to know at this point what else might have been dumped. How about some other religions? Anyone do a search on Pure Land Buddhism by chance?

Don't bother now. Really. Anyway -

I'm a data geek - how things get to where they need to be for reporting, loading into databases from both sides of the communications method. I have a very good idea about what happened, my own theories and I'm content to wait and see what we will find out from the horse's mouth, if they decide to tell us. They might. They might not. This is what I know, and I deal with this company on a B2B basis.

1. On a holiday weekend, it's unlikely there were many people at the switch. I think this is the work of one or two people, with an equal chance of it being an oops (benefit of the doubt) vs. someone with an agenda. It could have (VERY LIKELY) been going on for some time. Someone complained, someone Did Something and did it over a holiday weekend. Big Bad JuJu.

2. Company does not have a lotof direct contact with people when there are issues - so it's likely they've been notified this was an issue prior, but had it in the queue for repair when everyone discovered the issue and BLEW UP.

3. This is a company that delivers product via a JIT (Just-In-Time) inventory model that can't be beat by anything else out there. They are very good at what they do, which is predict their needs, deliver it on time, anywhere, anything, any time. And they've been doing it over over a decade. But see #2 - they do it with little human contact. All it would have taken is one person with a complaint - and #1 would have had a huge impact in addition to #2.

4. I hope we find out who did this.

5. Amazon fielded it's initial start-up tech staff from WalMart. Please look surprised.

6. I've never used sales rankings to find something, directly within Amazon. I might trawl a bit after an initial hit (NPR recommends something - I find it there, maybe over at Abebooks.com and then oh, this is related? And that? Interesting...and there you go), so I hadn't noticed. Check my wish list - and if I hadn't noticed? And did not use the sales rankings to find most of the items? Right.

I'm sure this is going to get much more interesting before it's over. But if this was intentional, belive me - some groups would be chortling and taking credit for it. Be right proud of themselves, neh?

It's a - not to point too fine a point on it - boner.

I've told you. I don't Twit, don't ask me.

Amazon. You know. I know. About what. What I'd like to know is what else got delisted/ It's almost impossible to know at this point what else might have been dumped. How about some other religions? Anyone do a search on Pure Land Buddhism by chance?

Don't bother now. Really. Anyway -

I'm a data geek - how things get to where they need to be for reporting, loading into databases from both sides of the communications method. I have a very good idea about what happened, my own theories and I'm content to wait and see what we will find out from the horse's mouth, if they decide to tell us. They might. They might not. This is what I know, and I deal with this company on a B2B basis.

1. On a holiday weekend, it's unlikely there were many people at the switch. I think this is the work of one or two people, with an equal chance of it being an oops (benefit of the doubt) vs. someone with an agenda. It could have (VERY LIKELY) been going on for some time. Someone complained, someone Did Something and did it over a holiday weekend. Big Bad JuJu.

2. Company does not have a lotof direct contact with people when there are issues - so it's likely they've been notified this was an issue prior, but had it in the queue for repair when everyone discovered the issue and BLEW UP.

3. This is a company that delivers product via a JIT (Just-In-Time) inventory model that can't be beat by anything else out there. They are very good at what they do, which is predict their needs, deliver it on time, anywhere, anything, any time. And they've been doing it over over a decade. But see #2 - they do it with little human contact. All it would have taken is one person with a complaint - and #1 would have had a huge impact in addition to #2.

4. I hope we find out who did this.

5. Amazon fielded it's initial start-up tech staff from WalMart. Please look surprised.

6. I've never used sales rankings to find something, directly within Amazon. I might trawl a bit after an initial hit (NPR recommends something - I find it there, maybe over at Abebooks.com and then oh, this is related? And that? Interesting...and there you go), so I hadn't noticed. Check my wish list - and if I hadn't noticed? And did not use the sales rankings to find most of the items? Right.

I'm sure this is going to get much more interesting before it's over. But if this was intentional, belive me - some groups would be chortling and taking credit for it. Be right proud of themselves, neh?

It's a - not to point too fine a point on it - boner.

One of the people who went to school with Cliff dropped me an email this morning.



Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME PED)
One-touch switching between classified and unclassified PDA functions

First ever on-the-move wireless access to the SIPRNET

Intuitive, user-friendly interface

NSA-certified and available today

The Sectéra® Edge™ smartphone converges secure wireless voice and data by combining the functionality of a wireless phone and PDA — all in one easy-to-use handheld device. Developed for the National Security Agency’s Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME PED) program, the Sectéra Edge is certified to protect wireless voice communications classified Top Secret and below as well as access e-mail and websites classified Secret and below. The Sectéra Edge is the only SME PED that switches between an integrated classified and unclassified PDA with a single key press.

*purrs*

"The Sectéra Edge is designed to MIL-STD-810F specifications for Drop, Shock, Vibration, Operating and Storage Temperature, Temperature Shock, Water Resistance, Dust, Humidity and Altitude."

It's the President's BlackBerry.

I am MUCH amused.

And I want one. Like I NEED one.

I have Working Assets Wireless. You want some good telecom, I'll give you some of it. They've been my long-distance provider for five years now. Love 'em to itty bits.

Had a phone. Worked good, that phone. But...they had a RED one. And, if you ask anyone, anything gets better when it's turned BRIGHT RED. And shiny.

So I called them, and they sent it out to me, no charge. I guess I was due for a new phone. The downside is that WA does not use sims in their phones, so I had to re-enter everything.

And the bright red shiny doesn't have a camera in it. Didn't use the one in the old phone, because I'd have to pay a bump every month to get the little shits off the phone. Tagging contact entries with pictures cool - but not necessary. And I should buy one of those tiny little digital cameras to put in the purse anyway. They're small enough these days and I can download the pictures off onto Balls when I want something.

One, if you think I should have your number, say something.

Two, if you want WA (and I already have a phone you can use), say so. It's in perfect working condition, just a couple of years old.

The bright red shiny also allows me RINGTONES - which the old phone didn't. I'll have to talk to catsonmars and kiyone about hacking some decent J-Pop on it soon.

This has been your geek alert for the day. *bows*

I have Working Assets Wireless. You want some good telecom, I'll give you some of it. They've been my long-distance provider for five years now. Love 'em to itty bits.

Had a phone. Worked good, that phone. But...they had a RED one. And, if you ask anyone, anything gets better when it's turned BRIGHT RED. And shiny.

So I called them, and they sent it out to me, no charge. I guess I was due for a new phone. The downside is that WA does not use sims in their phones, so I had to re-enter everything.

And the bright red shiny doesn't have a camera in it. Didn't use the one in the old phone, because I'd have to pay a bump every month to get the little shits off the phone. Tagging contact entries with pictures cool - but not necessary. And I should buy one of those tiny little digital cameras to put in the purse anyway. They're small enough these days and I can download the pictures off onto Balls when I want something.

One, if you think I should have your number, say something.

Two, if you want WA (and I already have a phone you can use), say so. It's in perfect working condition, just a couple of years old.

The bright red shiny also allows me RINGTONES - which the old phone didn't. I'll have to talk to catsonmars and kiyone about hacking some decent J-Pop on it soon.

This has been your geek alert for the day. *bows*

Do I have anyone on my friends list who can tell me the difference in structure - based on the naming nomenclature - of these two substances:

hexachlorophene
chlorhexidine

One used to be used surgically when I was a tot - and was removed from the market. The second is an up and coming substance being brought to market to kill bird flu as a topical hand wash....

Looking it up, it's already in use as a mouthwash and so forth - mosting for HIV applications.

Anyone?

A RSS collector that puts the feeds on toliet paper.

For the bathroom. Looks like it has a USB connection -



Yes. This would be a good Christmas gift. Geek with me.

And wipe your ass with the latest crap from CNN.

A RSS collector that puts the feeds on toliet paper.

For the bathroom. Looks like it has a USB connection -



Yes. This would be a good Christmas gift. Geek with me.

And wipe your ass with the latest crap from CNN.