Solution: A-Patch

This is simply awesome – the only thing that pisses me off about the new version of MSN messenger is the abundance of intrusive advertisements. A-Patch, affectionately referred to some as “Arab Patch” on account of all the “Praise be to God” and “Learn about Allah” shit on their site, is a surprisingly good mod for MSN messenger that lets you modify the interface and functionality to better suit your needs.

I highly recommend it.

While we’re on the anti-ads subject, there’s an excellent mod for Firefox that gets rid of almost all advertisements as well:

Ad Block Plus Download

Cheers – oh, and God is great and all that..

I was pretty happy with my Page Rank of 2, however that seems to have plummeted and now my page is “grey” AKA unranked. This happened after I posted a bunch of youtube impression of poker episodes. I think it’s also interesting to note that the videos that I linked to were mostly unranked.

The question now, is whether or not, after those pages disappear from my front blog page, my former PR will return. I suppose we’ll see after I get another seven posts up, so I guess it’s not all bad, as it gives me incentive to keep writing :p

Wikipedia on Page Rank: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_rank

This image is so shocking that I feel that I have to post. Some people may have already seen it, but I think that it needs to be out there. If a society performs executions at all, never mind public executions, then that society’s people need to question their values. Regardless of your cultural background, and regardless of what this guy did, this can’t possibly be the right way to solve the problem.

For those of you who support capital punishment, perhaps you’ll feel different after seeing this photo..

OK – I recently re-watched the “9/11 truth” episode of South Park, and it got me thinking about the 9/11 conspiracy theories that I’ve seen over the years. Some of them appear quite convincing, and I think that for a time, it was even popular for high school students (perhaps even including myself) to do up reports on the possible theories and spell America with three ‘K’s instead of a ‘C’.. at least, my reality removed teachers gave me ‘A’s for such reports.

Anyhow, since “911truth.org” was featured in the episode of South Park, I checked out their site and quickly stumbled upon this article which was apparently censored by “them”.

Now, call me elitist or overly sceptical, but I just can’t take anything as poorly written as this article seriously. I haven’t been in school for a while, but – at least to me – these seem like really elementary mistakes that a journalist certainly would not make. The insure / ensure one particularly.

Here’s a few mistakes that I noticed:

All [of] these would require public debate and [the] participation of Congress.

Canada’s influential Department of National Defence; its new Chief of Defence Staff, General Rick Hillier; and Defense Minister Gordon O’Connor are on board as well.

1 US policy seeks to insure America gets unlimited access to Canada water as well.

… when I got to that last one, I stopped reading. Perhaps there’s a good reason that these “articles” aren’t proof read: I’m guessing that the target audience is largely uneducated and ignorant and wont notice anyway, and anyone who would notice such mistakes is obviously not stupid enough to believe this dribble anyhow.The occaisional slip up I can take, gradeschool level homonym confusion – no, sorry, “your stupid”.