Love, Sex, Money and Userscripts!

Feb 16

greasemonkeyYeah, I know. The title is a bit funny but, I suppose that is what hobby blogging is all about. And I have chosen to use this platform to inform about things that many people have no idea their browsers can do. FYI, your browser is quite an important application on your system – more important than your word processor if you ask me. Seeing as nowadays a computer without a connection to the net is much like a fountain pen without ink, read on and learn just why you should think twice before buying a netbook with an Atom processor just because it is cheap, small and cute. I own a netbook and I simply cant do too much on it because it really cant handle my browsing. It can surprisingly handle my word processing though, quite well! Now, moving on to the meat of the matter.

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ICC trials vs MegaUpload Takedown

Jan 24

megaupload-logoYeah, I can tell you for a fact that the Kenya twitter-verse, and blog-verse, and any other ‘verse’ that this country may have is all buzzing about the ICC and the cases that have been recently been confirmed on some powerful local politicians but frankly speaking, that news is not on my mind right now. MEGAUPLOAD HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN! This is just after a victorious ‘sites black out’ petition against SOPA and PIPA in the states. Clearly, I think the thing to take home from this is in as much as the initial battle for protecting a free internet may have been won, the war is nowhere near over!

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The Social Network

Jan 08

220px-Social_network_film_posterLawyer: Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full attention?
Zuckerberg: [stares out the window] No.
Lawyer: Do you think I deserve it?
Zuckerberg: [looks at the lawyer] What?
Lawyer: Do you think I deserve your full attention?
Zuckerberg: I had to swear an oath before we began this deposition, and I don’t want to perjure myself, so I have a legal obligation to say no.
Lawyer: Okay – no. You don’t think I deserve your attention.
Zuckerberg: I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try – but there’s no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention – you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing. [pauses]
Zuckerberg: Did I adequately answer your condescending question?

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