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Absolutely Amazing!

Bugatti Veyron at top speed

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No National ID

We can't allow this to go through. I'll post more when I've done enough research on the steps we can take to stop the National ID program.

Vegetarian James

I've been a vegetarian for a month now. It all started out as just a "Lets see how it is to be vegetarian for a while" and has turned into something more than that somehow.

I never considered the plight of the animals I was consuming. To me they were just base beasts that were simply made to be eaten by higher forms of life and they deserved no compassion or consideration as living, conscious, feeling creatures. That all began to change as I started researching vegetarian foods, and the vegetarian lifestyle. The PETA website (I can hear the groans and chuckles of my family and friends now) has some really graphic and eye-opening videos of the animals being butchered for food. I'm not going to get on a soapbox about the subject, but if you care at all about cruelty to animals, watch the video about the slaughter of cows in a kosher slaughterhouse. The way the animals are treated is absolutly horrible. A warning though, you'd better be able to handle blood and gore to watch it.

I've been meaning to post about my new lifestyle for some time now, but just haven't taken the time, with the new baby and all. But it is a Friday evening at 5:30 PM, and I know that traffic is just jammed up on the roads, and I probably won't lose any time at all while traffic clears.

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History of religion for the last 5,000 years

Play this short movie to see the history, expansion, and territories of the major religions in the last 5,000 years. Before that there were probably Pagan religions in the areas where there is no color.



This short 90-second video yields a lot of information in a short time.

Don't bother to pay for Internet access in the Meadows!

The Meadows is the neighborhood that I live in.

Last night on the way home from work, I decided to do a little WarDriving. WarDriving is when you take a laptop running WiFi stumbling software to find WiFi hotspots and see if they are secure or not. Well, if you look at the attached screenshot of the stumbler, most of the WiFi access points I found were running no security at all. Shazam! is my access point and notice that WEP is on in my house.

If people only understood how easily it is for somebody to browse their local networks, and to use a password cracking piece of software to gain access to their local files, people wouldn't be so ignorantly putting a signal out there with no security running.

You should see the WarDriving list I got from driving on Rt.18 from Akron to Fairlawn!

Too true, too true

I'm a Linux lover. More than half of the computers I own are running Linux. It is the most customizeable OS out there and because it is free, I can play with any one of 100's of different distros of Linux any time I want. The computer that I use when I start my day is a Linux box running Ubuntu "Fiesty Fawn", the newest release of Ubuntu Linux. It networks 100x easier than an Windows box, and my Macs find it on the network and are able to use it's shared network printer easily.

Go Linux!

James, where've you been?

From New Album 2/4...

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From New Album 2/4...

We've been having a new baby!

Here's some pics of our new addition to our family. His name is Nathan Benjaman. He is 9lbs 7oz, 22" long. He was born at home with just Michelle and I. Thats right, no midwife, no doctor, nobody but husband and wife delivering their new baby.

Cool!

Canadian Redneck "Tough Guys" PWND!

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iPhone

I love it.

Well, I love what I've seen of it on the Apple website (apple.com/iphone). There is a cool Flash demonstration of the features of the phone. Worth watching for sure.

Here's what impresses me most about the phone: it is a Mac shrunken down to fit in my pocket. Its no secret I'm a Mac fan, and I am for good reasons. The OS X platform just plain works. Period. Day in, day out, it just works. My Powerbook is two years old now, and I've had all of two system crashes in the two years of ownership. This machine gets unpacked, set up and run hard every single day. I run that poor thing hard too, normally running at least six applications at the same time. Not little "foo-foo" apps either. We're talking Photoshop amd Illustrator at the same time along with Mail, Daylite and Safari. This thing just keeps working. And it does it in a beautiful, elegant, well thought out manner.

Anyway, I digress. The purpose of this post is to say why I love the iPhone. One of the big issues with running a Mac and wanting to sync it with a cell phone is that nobody really supports it. My Palm Treo 650 syncs, sort of. Duplicates of names and wrong tags on contact's email and phone numbers are very common. The sync process is slow, and overal a pain. The iPhone will sync perfectly with my machines, even down to the bookmarks in Safari, my web browser.

The interface is beautiful. The moving menus are awesome and the feel of the OS is very, well....Mac like. And it should be because it is running Mac OS X, same as my Powerbook and my Mac Mini.

All that being said, I do have a MAJOR ISSUE with the iPhone. Steve (Jobs), why, oh why did you sign an exclusive agreement with Cingular? Why did you pick the one carrier that I've had really bad experiences with? Why can't I use your beautiful, superior iPhone on the superior network of Verizon? Why'd you do that to me Steve?

Steve, buddy, if you had chosen Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Alltel, my decision to buy an iPhone would be merely based on money. But now I have to decide if I want to go to the inferior (in my opinion) network of Cingular.

Apple, congrats on producing a simply amazing product, but boo on you for signing an exclusive contract with Cingular.