Mea Culpa!, for I have completely ignored and abandoned this wonderful blog for months now. The truth is I have been vlogging and creating new channels on YouTube, notably one dedicated to the French Foreign Legion and the second one to armies in general. So I decided that it was time for a change (in the blog’s appearance), thus I have chosen this appealing theme which is simple and minimalistic, in other words very trendy. The problem that I was facing just before writing this post was, I was completely lost with the new backend template, seems that WordPress has been evolving during my absence…

Anyway from now on I solemnly declare that I will be blogging on a weekly basis, reporting mostly on IT, society, feminism (yuck!!!) and anything that might attract visitors to my free speech realm!!

Harry

Happy Birthday to me!! That’s one year since I started blogging and hope to continue, as long as I still got free time to spend on the net.

That’s the least you deserve Mr Bush!!

P.s I’m back on duty after two months of absence.

The ipod Nano is back with the 4th generation model!! An here are its features:

At the Apple Let’s Rock Event on September 9, 2008, the iPod nano 4th Generation was officially announced. It returns to the narrow form factor of the 2G model, while retaining and rotating the 2-inch (51 mm) screen from the 3G model. It is also thinner than both the 2G and 3G, measuring 90.7 mm (3.6 inches) tall by 38.7 mm (1.5 inches) wide by 6.2 mm (0.24 inch) thick, and weighing 36.8 grams (1.3 ounces). It has a curved aluminum shell and glass screen.

The six previous colors (silver, charcoal, mint, turquoise, berry red, and rose pink) have been replaced by silver, black, purple, light blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and pink. Apple markets the new colors as “nano-chromatic”. Also added is an accelerometer which allows the nano to switch between portrait and landscape display modes by just tilting the iPod left or right, shuffle songs when shaken, and access Cover Flow when tilted sideways. The UI has also been refreshed, adding a more stylized look in keeping with the new hardware design. It includes a new voice recording feature which starts automatically when an Apple compatible microphone is plugged in. It also includes the new “Genius” feature, introduced by Apple the same day. The Genius feature automatically creates playlists based on a selected song using an algorithm built by Apple.

It is additionally touted as “the most environmentally friendly iPod Apple has ever made”, containing arsenic-free glass and a BFR-, mercury-, and PVC-free design. It is also claimed to be highly recyclable. The iPod Nano 4G will be shipped in cases similar to the 2G ones with the clear view in the front, and is marketed in two models: 8 GB and 16 GB. limited quantities of an unannounced 4 GB models have surfaced in various markets.

Courtesy of Wikipedia

It seems that Apple is constantly improving and turning the ipod Nano into a multimedia platform rather than just a mere MP3 player. Personally I’m still using the iPod Nano second generation which I am fully satisfied (at least for now) though I have tried the third generation which did not really trilled me despite its advanced features compared to the 2th G.

Are you a stock-broker, market speculator or investor? If yes, SaneBull.com will surely be appropriate for you as this website provides information about:

-    World Market
-    Commodities and Futures
-    Portfolio
-    Us Stock Market Indexes
-    Stock Symbol Information
-    Currency Monitor
-    Real-Time Stock Symbol News
-    Real-Time Stock Market News
-    United States Mortgage Monitor
-    Crude Oil Futures
-    Gold Futures

All in the form of widgets where you simply have to copy the html code and paste it on your blog or website. What makes these widgets really interesting is that they provide information real-time as changes occur on the world market!

Feminism and Capitalism

Despite what have been said about feminism that – it is a ‘liberation’ and ‘emancipation’ movement for women, feminism is in fact a capitalism tool which government and capitalist lobby have understood a long time ago. Feminism is encouraged due to the economic potential that it generates for the government and the private sector. These potentials are listed as follows:

1. Governments in practically all modern especially western countries encourage feminism due to the fact that while women are employed they would generate incomes which would be taxed. This creates large revenue for countries which was forgone before feminism and women labour.

2. ‘Women are cheaper than Men’. Before feminism, the private sector ‘used’ women to ‘scare’ male workers especially in the manufacturing sector that would go for strike whether for wage increase or for more flexible hours etc. As a response industrialist threaten to employ women for the same job at a lower wage rate. Nowadays this very same system is used to ‘scare’ workers of a country by their local industrialists, who threaten their employees to decentralize their activities in other countries like China, where salaries are extremely low.

3. While promoting feminism, governments are more or less having a control on birth rate due to the fact that more and more women are employed, thus the birth rate is constantly declining and moreover most feminist organizations are pro-abortion.

4. Women are encouraged to work simply because they are bigger consumers than men, thus, here again governments benefits from it in the form of Value Added Tax on articles bought. The private sector also benefits from this new consumerism attitude which boosts their sales and profits.

With these above mentioned facts, it is clear that feminism which I consider to be a form of ‘sex fascism’ have a bright future ahead. Make no mistake I’m not an anti-capitalism but I’m certainly explaining how a self-proclaimed emancipation ideology is being deviated and tolerated because of it’s economic potential. (to be continued)

P.s An analysis on Feminism and its collaterals will be published later on!!

As if it wasn’t enough the old woman started to insult the controller who acted as a gentleman by leaving her and continue to check the other person’s bus tickets. Having seen all the scene, the chief of the controller went into the bus and started to shout (not insult) at the old lady stating that she was uneducated and illiterate!!!

Personally I think that the chief of the station was right to shout at the old woman due to the fact that her attitude was shameful especially a person at this age who are supposed to be examples to the younger generation!!

For years now I have been using this piece of software to convert graphic files and resize photos. This freeware is easy to use for beginners as well it would be ideal for professionals with limited budget. Over the years Xnview has proved to be an excellent working tool especially if you work in the design/photography industry.

Here are its features

● Import about 400 graphic file formats

● Export about 50 graphic file formats

● Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support

● Image IPTC, EXIF metadata support

● EXIF auto rotation support

● IPTC editing

● Resize, rotate, crop support

● Lossless rotate & crop (jpeg) support

● Adjust brightness, contrast…

● Auto levels, contrast

● Modify number of colors

● Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, …)

● Apply effects (lens, wave, …)

● Fullscreen mode

● Slide show with effects

● Batch convert, batch rename

● Create WEB page easily

● Screen capture

● Create contact Sheet

● Create or edit Multi-page file (TIFF, DCX, LDF)

● TWAIN & WIA support (Windows only)

● Print support (Windows only)

● Drag & Drop support (Windows only)

● Compare image side by side

● Filmstrip layout

● 44 languages support (Windows only)

● And many many other things…

● No Adware, No Spyware

With all these features mentioned above, this freeware will provide you with full satisfaction while using it!!

P.s In the near furure I will be creating a page on this blog dedicated to software/freeware

1. All of your friends have an @ in the middle of their names.

2. Your best friend is someone that you chat with online but have never met.

3. You see a beautiful sunset and you expect to save it to your desktop.

4. You are overcome with disbelief, anger and finally depressed when you encounter a Web page with no links.

5. You ask a plumber how much it would cost to replace the chair in front of your computer with a commode.

6. You feel driven to consult the “Cool Page of the Day” on your wedding day.

7. You are driving on a dark and rainy night when you hydroplane on a puddle, sending your car careening toward a flimsy guard rail that separates you from the precipice of a rocky cliff and certain death. You frantically search for the “Back” button.

8. When every member in your family has an e-mail account on the mail server where you work.

9. You find yourself typing “com” after every period when using a word processor.com

10. When you shut down your router and get an awful sick feeling like someone you love just died.

11. When you come home late at night from reconfiguring the servers and your wife draped a blond wig over your monitor and tells you to marry this.

12. You refuse to speak to your parents until they get e-mail.

13. Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.

14. You laugh at people that have modems.

15. You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you landscape.

16. You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.

17. You tell the cab driver you live at http://123.elm.street/house/bluetrim.html

18. Your spouse makes a new rule: “The computer cannot come to bed.” Not even the laptop.

19. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :^)

20. You turn on your computer, and turn off your spouse.

21. Your spouse says communication is important in a marriage…so you install Instant Messenger on her computer. And when she leaves you, you’re

22. You begin to wonder how on earth your service provider is allowed to call 200 hours per month “unlimited.”

And finally,

23. You know you’re a Network Administrator if you’ve sent this page to your yahoo account.

Courtesy of thenetworkadministrator.com

I came across this amazing and yet funny ‘list’ some time back and I wanted to share it with you readers! This list comes from an incredibly interesting website dedicated to networks and meant for network administrators. The website is thenetworkadministrator.com and you will see that there are amazing articles and news concerning routers, swiches, linux etc.

We all remember the 70, 80 and 90′s Tv shows, series, mangas, cartoons etc. But do you still remember the opening music or soundtrack of each of them??? If no, you can visit coucoucircus.org which will provide you with practically all the Tv shows music you might have heard.

I personally have found on this interesting web database a lot of Tv series and mangas music which I used to sing while I was young. All these music have revived the kid in me and moreover you can find a section on the website dedicated to video games soundtrack!!! What can we ask for more except that they continue the good job