Daily Archives: August 11, 2005

I’m a huge fan of blogging. I’ve been actively pro-blogs since the year 2000. When I hear about blogs in the news one eyebrow automatically goes up. The same thing happened when I heard about Mr. Trump’s blog. It’s not just his blog, though it’s named “The Trump Blog”. Don has an entourage of writers who help in his two-line-entry blogs. As I’m reading this blog I think to myself, “oh dear, Trump will be podcasting soon, and maybe vlogging.” Michael Gartenberg said it best: “If Donald Trump is blogging, then blogging is about as mainstream as it gets”, also my initial reaction.

Is this bad? Heck no. I look at this as a half step in the right direction. If we could only do something about fixing Trump’s hairdo, now that would be a step and a half in the right direction.

It just keeps getting better today. Wired news has a great article about aspiring interior decorator Jose Avila (including a great snap of his neon pink coiffure), a software developer who, apparently strapped for cash, decided to furnish his apartment in an ingenious way capable of making even the most earnest dumpster divers stand back and rethink their approaches: he’s making FedEx FurNiture.

He’s created a bed, a corner desk with shelves, a table, two chairs and a couch…and earned a cease-and-desist letter from the shipping giant, who claims his work violates the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. They asked him to take his site down the day after he put it up, in June.

I love this part:

Avila distributed cards and T-shirts featuring the website’s URL (but not the FedEx logo) at the recent Black Hat conference in Las Vegas…Avila tried to have more cards and T-shirts made, but FedEx Kinko’s refused to do the job.

Bolstered by Lawyers from Stanford Law School, Avila put the site back up, and they’re apparently gearing up for a legal tussle. Man, I love the internet.

This is a trip. Anything beginning with the sentence “How far can you push a processor without setting your room on fire?” has to be good, I say.

With a Pentium 4 670 Prescott rated at 3.8 GHz, an ASUS motherboard, 1 GB of memory, Windows Server 2003 and, most importantly, some sort of industrial-strength cooling device that looks like it could be used to make ice cream, this Japanese blog includes pictures (thankfully) of the process, and a final processor speed of…7133.5 MHz!

[Kudos to Softpedia and Engadget]