01.22.08
Republican Thompson out of presidential race | Reuters
Republican Thompson out of presidential race | Reuters
I told you so. My only correction is that he could become someone’s running mate
01.20.08
Here we go…Net Neutrality anyone?
I have always said that content was the oil of the internet, and I see a strange parallel to this and the foreign oil crisis. We gave consumed oil for years and only now are we starting to address the problem by changing fuel efficiency and find alternative fuel sources. You know, innovation.
The telcos were against net neutrality because they said it would stop innovation, but they are approaching a tiered service for internet access, but where it the innovation? I’ll tell you where. There is none because they want the customers to fall in line with their plans. They are not trying to find innovative ways with the technology for all customers to enjoy the broadband experience. They are just making us watch our usage or pay for it like the lame politicians who want to keep getting foreign oil and tell us to use less gas, car pool or ride a bike. The only way for everyone to win is for the telcos to do as claim they will do and that is innovate. We keep paying them money, but they either don’t innovate or they give us a little of nothing and play it up as the greatest thing since sliced bread. I like Eddie Murphy’s analogy. If you starve a person long enough and then feed them a cracker, they will think that the cracker is the greatest thing in the world. It wasn’t anything special about the cracker, you were just hungry.
01.13.08
Theme for Black History Month, Restoring Black Heritage
I don’t know if we normally have a theme during Black History Month, so I am presenting mine. Like Stevie said in “If Your Love Can Not Be Moved”, “You can’t form a line if you’re too scared to stand alone.”
I tend to see life’s events as technology. Since I spend so much time around software and upgrades, I get revelations on that level. I told a Bible study group one time that we often get caught up with new revelations to the point that we miss the depth of what was said, and it ends up being a spiritual fad. Every new revelation that comes out, we grab. We don’t fully understand or study it long enough to see if it is even compatible with what we really believe. After so much, you get bogged down with all this new stuff that nothing makes sense. In technology, we do this with our computers every new toolbar, free program, cleaner, widget that we see, we install, and it eventually slows our computer down or worse, crashes it. In this day, there is a new threat, malware. Software that invades our computer over port 80. This is the port that the internet travels to your computer because it has to be open, it becomes a major point of vulnerability.
The black community is also suffering from serious malware. In our attempt to integrate with main stream America, we have opened ourselves to the underlying and unseen malware of corporate greed, consumerism and narcissism. What makes malware so dangerous is its ability to re-write code within a system to allow it to continue operating freely. By changing the rules, it looks to the system as normal or right. This malware is identified by justifying violence and misogyny toward women in music and movies, calling each other out of our names in songs and calling it art, undermining the efforts of social justice, denying the pride of our heritage, disrespect of our communities, saggin, believing that intelligence is acting white and the list goes on. Once malware is present it tends to open the door for more and more serious violations, some that effect the source code which is at the heart of the system.
Herein lies the problem. The source code of the black community has changed. Decades of malware that has perpetrated itself on the system as normal has undermined the fundamental structure and now 40 is the new 30, and 20 is the new 10. So much of what we have embraced is so not us. What’s worse, is that those who actually know the way the program is supposed to be, are being deleted off the scene. Here is what I propose. Its time to re-install the operating system of the black community. There is no quick fix. We must start over by re-defining blackness. We need to go beyond slavery and go all the way back to Africa because we have been trying to celebrate who “are”, but not fully understanding who we “were” before coming to this continent. We have to fully define our existence pre-slavery to understand what changed as a result of slavery. We keep acting like we didn’t exist in any reasonable intelligence pre-slavery. The black church as been very guilty of allowing this malware to flourish. Maybe we should tone down on the hoses and dogs on PBS because this is deep as many of us go toward understand black history, outside of going shopping on our “day off” for Dr. King’s birthday.
Let’s restore Black Heritage. Re-install and put up a new firewall. We know what the problems are and where they are coming from.
“When I became a man I put away my childish things.”
01.11.08
NewsFactor Network | Sony Deal Solidifies Amazons Challenge to Apple
NewsFactor Network | Sony Deal Solidifies Amazons Challenge to Apple
Be not deceived. Apple is nobody’s fool. They are not concerned about deals made my players who came too late to the game. Apple is pushing them right where they want them to set up their next big thing which will be announced at MacWorld next month. Watch what I tell you.
01.05.08
Intel Quits Effort to Get Computers to Children – New York Times
Intel Quits Effort to Get Computers to Children – New York Times
What bothers me most about this situation is that neither Microsoft or Intel was thinking about the children when the OLPC project was being conceived. If they were going to do it, they would have done it by now. They had the money and resources to put it in play.
01.02.08
Pointui, the definitive user interface for mobile devices.
Pointui, the definitive user interface for mobile devices.
Take back control of your device with Pointui Home. No need to fumble for a stylus anymore as Home is designed with generously sized controls.
This nice little program adds touch interface control to your Window Media pda device. My buddy has a Treo 750, and he loves it. I have a Centro. I have no real complaints.