Tag: internet

Revenue streams be the death of us all

The big com­pa­nies are once again stu­pid­ly try­ing to make mon­ey out of the Inter­net, free ser­vices are being closed down or at least scalled down, with the pre­vi­ous­ly free opti­nos avail­able if your will­ing to pay for them. With the end of the free era of the net, so goes the good kar­ma, adver­tis­ing and mind­space these com­pa­nies had been enjoy­ing.
Take some­thing as sim­ple as your email address.
Are you still using the same address you had when you first dialed-up?
Are you still usig the same ISP?
Per­haps at some point you thought to get a hot­mail account, or some such oth­er free mail so that it did­n’t mat­ter if you changes ISP, peo­ple would still be able to get in touch.
Only thing is the assump­tions made. At any time Microsoft may decid­ed to shut hot­mail down, and they aren’t going to ask for your per­mis­sion to do it.
Recent­ly I’ve seen a lot of peo­ple get­ting very sick of the unre­ali­abli­ty of the big com­pa­nies, and their ISP.
The answer is sim­ple, and not that expen­sive, buy your own domain name, and cre­ate some email address­es there. Then you can take it with you where ever you go, you and you alone con­trol the address.
The rest of the net can go get fucked, cause I’m tak­ing my own bit back.

God vs. the Loch Ness Monster

The chaps over at The Philos­phers Mag­a­zine have some inter­est­ing things to say on the sub­ject of Nessy and God which I dis­agree with.
Either there is a seri­ous flaw in their log­ic. Or they are unable to fol­low the log­ic of my belief sys­tem. I’m not sure which.
But appar­ent­ly from all log­ic points of view God and the Loch Ness Mon­ster are equals. Strange then that I’ve not hear the the­o­ry of Nessy cre­at­ing the uni­verse one after­noon.
Nessy

If, despite years of try­ing, no strong evi­dence or argu­ment has been pre­sent­ed to show that there is a Loch Ness mon­ster, it is ratio­nal to believe that such a mon­ster does not exist.

God

As long as there are no com­pelling argu­ments or evi­dence that show that God does not exist, athe­ism is a mat­ter of faith, not ratio­nal­i­ty.

The big prob­lem I have with this is the nature of God and the nature of Nessy.
IF Nessy does indeed exist, it is agreed that she is some sort of giant lizard type crea­ture, that is lim­it­ed by the same rules of nature that we (humans) are, log­ic, chem­istry, physics, the lot. There­fore we must be able to find her even­tu­al­ly.
IF God does indeed exist, it is agreed that she is not a giant lizard type crea­ture, and is not lim­it­ed by any laws of the uni­verse that we know of or any of the laws of the uni­verse that we haven’t yet dis­cov­ered. There­fore we may nev­er be able to find her, not mat­ter how hard we look.

I live!

Accord­ing to Stay­ing Alive I did sur­vive via psy­cho­log­i­cal reduc­tion­ism.
It does­n’t sur­prise me at all that this is the answer I got. My thoughts on the mat­ter are sim­ple… how can I be con­sid­ered still alive if I don’t remem­ber it. Sure this gets blur­ry when loss of mem­o­ry is unavoid­able, but what ya gonna do?

TWRIABP (Ep: 53)

In todays episode of “The Web Real­ly Is A Bizarre Place” we find that a Google search for the phrase “Dave Gold­ing” turns up The Blog of Crane­ligh in sec­ond place… and Dav­e’s own home page is nowhere to be seen, also we learn that Janet and Sam have more going on than even they know about, and Spooky the Dog saves the day (again).
Roll cred­its.

We know who you are!

For a while now we have been track­ing who it is that actu­al­ly reads this site. And in our scan­ning of the logs we’ve come across some inter­est­ing stuff. But none more than this, some­one out there in the big bad world some­one thought “Hey, this blog is just to darned easy to under­stand, I’ll just use the Pow­ers-Of-The-Inter­net ™ to make if more of a chal­lenge”, and so this poor soul reads my site as trans­lat­ed into Pikachize. Check it out.
The Blog of Cran­leigh in Pikachize
And for more fun The Pikachiz­er
Whilst we’re talk­ing about our beloved read­ers I should men­tion that we are now up to a total of 4 (four) reg­u­lar read­ers (no, not count­ing our­selves). We wel­come Alan to the fold, yet we still won­der what it is that actu­al­ly makes you peo­ple keep com­ing back. None the less we are strange­ly hap­py.