I have uploaded more Lewis County Flood pictures. Please check them out on the Flood Blog’s Galleryfurniture Elhovo here or http://flood.dothelp.net/gallery/v/willlangford5/.

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Check it out here; http://flood.dothelp.net/

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Well if your reading the news you can see that it is flooding in Southwest Washing..well a lot more of Western Washington.

Here are couple Flickr sets that I took of the highway going to my house. I guess I have my own island right now.

http://flickr.com/photos/willlangford/sets/72157603370739391/

http://flickr.com/photos/willlangford/sets/72157603372560284/

And some of the pictures;

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Kyle MacDonald has finally gotten a house. On his blog he said he was going to trade one red paperclip to people and eventually end up with a house. Well today he has finally done it in trading one movie roll for a house in Canada. Simply amazing what the internet can do.

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On February 26, 2004, we had a snowstorm here in Raleigh, and all the news channels posted the businesses and schools that would be closed the next day. One of these fine news organizations, Time Warner Cable’s News 14 Carolina, chose the most convenient but least secure method to allow businesses to report closings: the Internet. Well, it wasn’t long before members of The Wolf Web, an NCSU message board, exposed this flaw. They went crazy, as you’re about to see. The best part of the whole thing was once a closing was accepted, it could be edited on the Internet and would go straight to TV without having to be reviewed again, so a fake closing that seemed plausible the first time it was shown could be outrageous the next time.

Go here for more pictures.

Here is the original forum thread.

G33ks of the world unite.

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Podcasting is now a year old. I don’t see how it has already been a year, as it seems like almost yesterday this was a brand new thing! I really need to charge my iPod.

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Net neutrality is starting to scare me. I had quite a few misconceptions about what NN really was. This cartoon and an opinion about the cartoon is well worth anyone’s time. And be sure to visit Handsoff.org.

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MySpace is now known as MyFake. Although nothing has changed, I’ve noticed it’s the degree in which it is happening. A few months back I wrote about people being fake to inflate their friends list. For an example recap; I went to high school with them, never talked and they try to be cool and friendly online to get their friend list count up. Sorry I don’t play that game.

Recently every time I login to MySpace to see what’s up, probably every 2-3 days if that, I get these people wanting to be my friends. I look at the profile and it’s a damn porn site! They must have put a redirect on their profile to go to their site. Then a couple others didn’t even have a picture, just a quick about blurb that consists of; Hi come chat with me! My AIM is this, MSN is this..and I have a webcam. Hope you like to have fun! –WooHoo good for you, skank. Then I hit the mighty Deny button on the friends request page. Seriously what is the world coming to? They need to do something about this; what about the little 15 year old kid that gets that kind of stuff. Especially sense MySpace is owned by News Corp that has to be a great image for the company. I can see it now “Porn for Minors!” Sponsored by News Corp.

There is hope though MySpace putting restrictions for younger members. The first restriction is on the ads that will be displayed. They are going to stop displaying ads for online dating sites on profiles under the age of 18. So what they are really saying is that they have been doing this the whole time. Talk about a great way to make money. Kid clicks because the banner says that he can get laid tonight. He gets to the site; the site says that he has to be 18 to join. He closes the window. MySpace makes money on the click. Awesome Idea. Till they get sued. The useful restrictions include not allowing people to send messages from a 14-15 year olds to 18 year olds. This is great, but could also back fire, what about brothers and sisters that want to message each other? They are also adding the ability to have private profiles that won’t display the friends list now, unlike before when it only blocked the information and the profiles pictures. Read the whole story here.

Might I also mention that MySpace is getting sued because a young girl got assaulted! They are suing because MySpace failed to protect minors. Who made the profile? Who talked to the guy? Who was attracted to him? Who decided to meet? The answer to all those is the girls. I think its time for the parents to step up and watch what their kids do online. Read it here.

MySpace Music is actually something cool. One of the few features on MySpace I actually use. A friend of mine in Indiana has a band so it makes it easy for me to keep up on his band, listen to new tracks they have uploaded, and keep track of their shows. Well even bands are becoming fake, some kids created a fake band, songs for download, and within four weeks got an offer for a show. Why might you ask? To prove how fake the site really is. They rock. Read the whole story here.

What all this will come to? How will MySpace die? Will it be shutdown like Napster, or just die a slow painful death? Only time will tell or will it become the Nth Wonder of the World?

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Well Opera 9 is out. I am starting to take it for a test drive. Heart be still I am breaking away from my lovely Firefox and trying Opera. Back in April the Firefox Guide got Slashdotted a got a few comments from people that said Opera does everything that Firefox and the extensions I listed. So with this new version I am going to find out. Stay tuned for a detailed report.

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Read this. NOW!

Stop big copyright before it starts.

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Well I’ve found more links…for some reason the past week or so I’ve been finding some totally awesome sites. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

YouTube Cartoons - Awesome collection of old Saturday morning cartoons that we all love.

AboutURL - This site gets almost any information you could want or need to know about a domain.

Web Workflow - This page goes through an awesome step by step process on how most web designers layout a website. Gotta love flashbacks.

Hollow Out a Light bulb - Never even thought about doing this, none the less very cool.

htaccess Generator - Priceless.

Wal-Mart Scares Me - READ THIS…kind of scary. I don’t like the fact that Wal-Mart could possibly track everything I do, on video.

Levels of HTML Knowledge - Good read.

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Well today marks another victory for the RIAA/MPAA, and another HUGE blow to the file sharing community.

This is now what is on ThePirateBay.org.

In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate Bay. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law.

The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the TPB servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks, including the non-commercial site Piratbyrån, the mission of which is to defend the rights of TPB via public debate.

According to police officers simultaneously questioning the president of Rix|Port80, the purpose of the search warrant is to take down TPB in order to secure evidence of the allegations mentioned above.

The necessity for securing technical evidence for the existance of a web-service which is fully official, the legality of which has been under public debate for years and whose principals are public persons giving regular press interviews, could not be explained. Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing wether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal.

The TPB can receive compensation from the Swedish state in case that the upcoming legal processes show that TPB is indeed legal.

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I got this from a good friend of mine. This is simply amazing.

Here are some pics and footage of the shamal (sand storm) that tried to eat my helo coming back to my camp 2 days ago. I was 10 miles out flying back to the camp at the end of my mission and asked for clearance to land. Tower told me negative and to turn around because he was at 10′ visibility. I could see the storm billowing in the distance. I turned around and headed toward another camp. The sand storm was chasing me just like in the movie, “the scorpion king”. Mean while the crew chiefs in the back were capturing it all on their digital cameras. When I reached the other camp and contacted tower to ask for landing instructions, he replied, “Do you realize there is a sand storm at your 6 o’clock? I almost said, “Here’s your sign”. He cleared me to cross all active runways direct to my touchdown spot. As soon as I was wheels down the storm engulfed our helo. It was the wildest thing I have ever seen.

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I found a site that has some awesome videos of Trojan coming down.

http://hansv.com/trojan_implosion/index.html

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