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Archive for June, 2007

Portland Night Streets

Posted by Wired Pig June - 30 - 2007 - Saturday ADD COMMENTS

iPhone: 600 dollars. Cell phone plan: 40 dollars a month. Customer service from the devil AT&T: Priceless. There are some things money cant buy for everything else, there’s Mastercard.
Fun with Apple iPhone activation. Sadly, this is to be expected and panned for when selling a million units the day before.
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Lets Get Politcally Correct

Posted by Wired Pig June - 30 - 2007 - Saturday ADD COMMENTS

From: Reuters -
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is proposing to remove the term “prostitute” from the criminal statutes because it carries too much stigma.
Instead, a new bill that the Justice Ministry has drafted refers simply to persons who sell sex persistently — defined as twice or more in three months.
“We just wanted to remove the [...]

Arrests in UK Saturday Terror

Posted by Wired Pig June - 30 - 2007 - Saturday ADD COMMENTS

From: Herald Sun Sunday -
Scotland Yard says two people were arrested in Cheshire in northern England early today and two men were apprehended after a Jeep Cherokee shattered glass doors at Glasgow airport’s terminal entrance and burst into flames.
Police and security officials say the attacks are linked and all three vehicles carried large amounts of [...]

Three More Officers Down

Posted by Wired Pig June - 30 - 2007 - Saturday ADD COMMENTS

From: ODMP.org -
Yes, three more officers down. Two from gunfire and one from a vehicular pursuit. That brings the total so far to 94 officers killed.
Here are their stories -
Officer Stephen Anderson was shot and killed when an inmate over powered him and gained control of his service weapon on June 25th, 2007.
The prisoner had [...]

Maybe Ubuntu

Posted by Wired Pig June - 30 - 2007 - Saturday ADD COMMENTS

I’m thinking of scrapping Fedora 7 on the laptop and putting Ubuntu 7.04 back on it.
Networking works great but the sound will just die. I didn’t have that issue with Ubuntu.
If I can figure out the problem I’ll keep Fedora, if not its back to Ubuntu..

No More Twitters…

Posted by Wired Pig June - 30 - 2007 - Saturday ADD COMMENTS

I’m stopping the posting of my Twitters on my Tumblr page.

Why My Video’s Look Bad

Posted by Wired Pig June - 30 - 2007 - Saturday ADD COMMENTS

The YouTube Videos -

– I use YouTube.
Even the best video shot looks like crap on YouTube. Nothing you do will make your video look good after YouTube gets a hold of them, compresses them and converts them. Simple…
– I’m Shooting with a camera phone.
Since #1 happens, shooting with the camera and low quality [...]

A trip up N. Interstate

Posted by Wired Pig June - 30 - 2007 - Saturday ADD COMMENTS

Just a short drive up N. Interstate in Portland.
If you are downloading this from the website, you’ll need qucktime installed to view the 3GP video (about 2.5mb).
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