rants and raves

Interesting transcript of a Bill O’Reilly Fox moment: GLICK: On September 14, do you want to know what I’m doing? O’REILLY: Shut up! Shut up! GLICK: Oh, please don’t tell me to shut up. O’REILLY: As respect — as respect — in respect for your father, who was a Port Authority worker, a fine American, who got killed unnecessarily by barbarians… GLICK: By radical extremists who were trained by this government… O’REILLY: Out of respect for him… GLICK: … not the people of America. O’REILLY: … I’m not going to… […]

[Update: More information about NPBot and Nameprotect] Found a link to this cute little bot in my referer log: NameProtect Inc :: NPBot Notification Interesting to see someone so openly telling people they are looking for “intellectual property violations”. I wonder if they respect my copyright.. They say they identify with the NPBot user-agent string, which would make filtering out any attempts by the bot pretty easy, or even better – serving up content that did not in-fridge on any copyright if you are into giving away stolen goods. So

Aral (Onrelease) is working hard to gather people to protest against the war, the 15th of february will be the day for global protest. Both locally and on the web. If you want to voice your opinion against the war, you can add the “No War Counter” to your site, as well as joining in on the web blackout on the 15th of february. Aral (Onrelease) has made available a template for those of you that want to have your site go black, as well as necessary scripts and SWF

I’ve been slow to pick up on this one, but it remind me of the lesson learned through my own life, that you shouldn’t just trust what you see or hear, no matter the source.

Its interesting to note that it has almost been a year of blogging, and that my blog has gone through some changes over the last year. It started out as my personal arena to just rant about everything and nothing — as the subtitle of my blog indicates “the ramblings of jarle dahl bergersen”. Later it would turn into a “Flash blog” because of my interest in Flash. after all I was working in one of Norway’s leading flash design/development companies and at the same time one of the editors

Some Macromedian bloggers has raised the issue of “Flash blogs” spamming with political content. JD started it (as far as I can tell) with his post about “Spamming aggregators“. To you John, I’d like to say: Sorry if you don’t like what I am saying, but from that to accusing me (and others) of spamming aggregators. Come on! First of all, remember that the Flash blogs are personal blogs from people investing their time and money into keeping the community informed on what is going on — they are not

Just thought I would take the time to refresh everyone on the reoccurring story of the fight against terrorism taking human rights hostage. Anti-Terror Campaign Cloaking Human Rights Abuse (Human Rights Watch Press release, January 16, 2002) “Terrorists believe that anything goes in the name of their cause. The fight against terror must not buy into that logic. Human rights principles must not be compromised in the name of any cause.” Resorting to the same tactics as terrorists, and sacrificing human rights is not the way to address terrorism. Its

I watched an interesting TV-program today, about the Participative Budget in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Its a project that has been going on since 1989 in Brazil, and has shown such promise that the Brazilian labor party is saying they will expand the program to the whole country. I am sure I am not alone in thinking that the democracy as it is today is failing. Less people are voting every election in most of the developed countries, in fact I would go as far as saying we are approaching a

Sorry for the lack up updates. A bad flue has taken down my “main system”, I will hopefully be back on my feet soon.

Thought I would start collecting original descriptions to how words/terms started out. The first is RFC, by Vint Cerf. Vint Cerf on the origin of RFCs Steve Crocker wrote RFC #1 – he knew that we needed to document our design work but was very conscious of the fact that we were just graduate students, not the principal investigators on the ARPANET project. Early in the a.m. he was casting about for some way to describe these documents and came up with “Request for Comments” – a kind of humble