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Well, I had so much hope for joost when it first came up.

Leo Laporte and Amber Macarther talked so much about it.

I had to run out and get me a beta test. The first branch of i.p. TV tree had sprouted. They had a program you had to install that seems a whole lot like what  is now called Adobe Air. The program and the videos ran and played really smooth, looked pretty good also. One day a bunch of people started complaining about the install process (a whole 4 seconds to download, 12 seconds to install..) So the Joost team dropped the installer and started at going with online streaming video, much like Hulu. I really liked the program, it ran like a torrent  program or good ol Kazzaa. On a peer program.

Sad to say though, Joost never had any really good videos, other than “The Lexx”.

Joost  is sold to a company called “Adconion Media” . Really I never heard of them. I hope they make the best of it. I was actually hoping for nbc,cbs and or hbo/showtime/usa to merger on a deal to buy it. Oh well .

Good luck gang.

A woman from Canada lost her insurance after facebook visit from her insurance company. seems they saw her vacation pictures and said ” Hey you not so cool”

Here is the real story followed by  My take.

Lost her insurance because of Facebook Pictures

A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said Monday she would fight an insurance company’s decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing, at a bar and at a party………..

Ok, You back from reading that? Really it is a short read so if you haven’t read it . Go read it.

She goofed by giving the insurance company the same email address she registered her Facebook account with. But that does not make her a bad person. Really it makes her insurance company practically an internet Stalker. Facebook is pretty strict and locked tight. Most profiles, you can’t see someone’s profile unless you are invited to see it, or if you request to be their friend and they accept. So somewhere in that area she made a mistake. That of course is not against the law. Tricking her into thinking she is going to have a new friend is deceptive though.

An insurance agent over-riding the doctor’s request, is foul, and well here in the united states, the doctor would probably sue the insurance company because of the claim against the doctor’s credibility.

So.. What have  we learned here?

Probably not much.

Seems I am the only person who get this information out, because I did not update every single wordpress script on all of my websites.. This one is the one to get the message out. I have not yet found the solution to akismet crashing my rss feeds on all of my sites but this post is my original post about akismet being down and not working well with  wordpress 2.8.5.

Maybe I am totally wrong and someone knows the fix for my issue. If so please post it on the site, in case someone else thinks the same as myself.

So much writing has gone to waste over the past 4 days.

The way to beat hospital riders.
What that means is they attack people until they find someone they can beat, then they over attack you, they level up from you  and wait for you to attack them back, if you beat them, they can then use the retaliate and beat you more… most people’s defense is lower than their attack, so it’s common they actually beat people.
Everytime you try and attack them back, they are in the hospital. So all you can do is kill them and not give them a loss. so Weebear has a huge win count, low loss count, high death count, . Weebear attacks you all day every day,  she never kills you. So she gets 50 wins on you and all you can do is get one kill on her. So her win count is amazingly high. This makes her look deadly… basically padding her  wins.

How do you fix that? well it’s easy.
attack her, if they are in the hospital, then open there page in two separate windows.
in one of the windows, hitlist them.
then hurry to the other window and attack them  as many times as you can as fast as you can.

There defense usually is greater than there attack so you will win.
You put them down, get most of your money back, give them a loss and a death. You didn’t waste a badge on them.

My buddy is going away for a year(to  well let’s say he is going away to a camp  and not going to be able to log in for one year) and has left me responsible for his World Of Warcraft Account. He has a level 79 something or other and a level 80 something or other, his account will bill him once a month and he says the payments are all taken care of, So I am not responsible for anything other than logging in and keeping his friends in his clan/guild/gang/family/nerd farm. I have no idea what I am in for .

but as of right now I am 60% in the way of downloading game 3 of 3. Wrath of the Lich king.  Now I do not know what anything is so I am not super excited about this but, I will try and tell you guys how it goes, as it goes.

I have already received the password and user name for his accounts so, I will be logging in, sad thing is, his friends might not know that I am not him. LOl that will be fun. I awill not be typing messages until I know what’s all up and get a good understanding of the game. I hope there aren’t little things he does regularly that they expect me to do.. No matter what they say, I’m not giving aay his crap because I have no idea what’s good and what’s not good… somethings might be lame at first and then later I might need it… really I do not know.

He is my buddy so I am not going to screw up his stuff.

Well right now the game is being installed on my secondary drive,  I know it sounds dumb, but the drive is empty and has 350 gigs of storage is on sata, my main drive is 160 on ide.

processor is amd 5600+ dual core

vid card is evga nvidia  9500 gt 512 mb

3 gigs pc 6400

I believe I can handle the game, he has been playing for the last three years with his onboard nvidia 7100 video card, single core 1.8 g cpu and 512 mb memory, If he can do it, I should be ok… I am not going to upgrade just for this stupid game..  unless I really get into it… I doubt that. I really would hate to get to much into the game and bamm… he comes back early and I have to give the crap back away.

There is a website for promoting your music, totally free, you creat your account, message the administrator details of your music and link to a place the admin can hear it (if you have an online collection) and the administrator will build you a few pages for totally free. The pages can contain anything you want for your band, from links to your music, to links for your merchandise ( yes you can sell you band shirts). There is a place for you to post your schedule of shows, so your fans and friends know when and where to find your content.

There is a spot to upload your samples, It’s the quickest way to get your content to the site owner so he can build you a media player for your section of the website. If you have a website layout already picked out, be sure to notify the admin, he might get upset if he puts his best creative foot into motion and you tell him after hours of working for you for nothing.

All he wants is for you to bring people to the site, he will take care of the rest. The goal is to make the place that scouts go to find talent. and where other bands go to find openers.

The Musician’s Social iworkwithmusic.com

tell your friends that your music can be found at (example): iworkwithmusic.com/1dat

(1dat is an actual band that was happy to be the first and used as an example)

or you can point your domain to your page after it is created.

The votes had been tallied up and we see that  77.78% of the users want to see an MMorpg for the next Grand Theft Auto Game

5.56% said no way

16.67% Said They want a donut (lol)

Now the new vote is what city we want to see for The Next Grand Theft Auto

I am not aiming super high, I am hoping for Vice City again. But if this will be an mmorpg then we want a whole country, so we can sit in whatever city we want to.

Did you ever get a PayPal account ? Buy much of anything on Ebay ? Got charged for doing the express pay and the guy collecting at the other end got charged to receive the  payment, Meanwhile the person selling the item had to pay for holding the auction. In one year, It was 04 or 05 when I last cared to hold an auction on eBay, but in that one year I got 3 notices of price raises and a free three days to hold an auction. See the issue is, they make plenty of money buy us paying for the auction, and the  7 percent (if it’s still that low, I doubt it) to sell out items using their bandwidth) to make plenty of money buy just maintaining the servers, but no, they keep trying to come up with ways to collect more money  from what they already offer.

What two months ago Ebay blamed social networks on their downfall. Really?  a social site?? The only way a social site can cause an issue with a a company is the freedom of speech. What I mean by that is, telling everyone how you got done wrong. Well dang the ability to speak your mind. Others blame it on a weakening economy. Yes it’s the fact that we do not want to give up our physical possessions that we earned and once put our hands on in trade for 7% or more fees to sell on a network full of people who have mastered the system of gaming that site.

If it was not for the over price auction and every fee they can tax to the system, it would be because the 50/50 chance of getting hit by a scammer. you auction off your item and some guy wins at a nice hefty price you ship the item, eBay contacts you and says “wait payment is not complete and has been reversed due to A STOLEN ACCOUNT” …. ehh crap. Meanwhile the scammer sends out hundreds of emails from fake email accounts like  emailer1.ebay@yahoo.com   and the emails look like legit eBay emails saying ” Item paid for you must ship item now” . Go to your PayPal account and see the money was reversed and you never received, then you get fake PayPal emails Confirming the item was paid for.

How the person won the auction was to bid $40000000 over the actual value of the item assuring no one will win but him/her. Basically killed your chance to get money for what you earned, then  to complete the screwing, tries to steal the item from you.

If you get scammed and fall for anything from an eBay scammer you are at a 80% chance of eBay saying ” there is nothing we can do about this at this time but we are looking into it” .. Great.

See for a place that actually has very little to offer, no 100% assurance, they sure do keep raising their prices a whole lot.

Oh for a heads up.

Never ever buy a car remote from eBay.   You get the remote, you set your car to match it, he just mailed it to you so he has your home address and the matching remote.. 20 bucks and a car for  $45 worth of gas.. Nice.

Every week every day I have to start out listening to my shows. I start with sdr then move to the tech guythen caffination and then twit. Through out the week I pick out the rest.  Following week, I start all over. Occasionally I get lucky  and Jobacle has a new episode. If you send topic requests, he might actually research the topic and hook you up.  Really well done program, just not enough of it there.  The unsigned musicians portion of the show really is good stuff, most of time!

Twit This Week In Tech, a network created by Leo Laporte. Shows I highlight that I must listen to every week.

The Tech Guy, Net@Nite,TWIT.

Tech Podcast Network Place to hear tech podcasts and select from a few. sdr, linux news log, Mike Tech, CaffiNation,

Podnutz A gathering of tech podcasts on one network. pretty good stuff.

At the top of every page on the tech news site, there is a tool bar, you don’t have to use it but it does already have the podcasts I listed here in the rss feed and the radio player. I use that tool bar on my bootable linux thumb drive, my home pc, my laptop, my work pc , scanned a million times over  there is nothing to fear from that bar it really is very useful. but again, you o not have to use  it to try the podcasts I listed.

We all have used a community of some sort. From java chat rooms o Irc chatrooms, to forums and bulletin boards. We have used Myspace, Facebook, Jaiku and Twitter.

One thing they all have in common, is community.

What type of community do you like? or what kind would you like to see again.

My favorite of all time was MSN chatrooms based on city/location. Lets you make the world a bit smaller and gets you in touch with hundreds even on a day you are sick. Forums are too slow but seem to be the closest we have. IRC even though msn chat was on an IRC server, IRC seems to vulnerable for massive attacks.

S what would you like to see again, or more of?