AT&T’s filtering policy is very bad news indeed…
Bad AT&T, bad!
I can understand network monitoring in a workplace environment, but meddling into one’s home connection does not sound right. I can imagine a lot of false positives and service disruptions, and I can visualize those who distribute illegal content encrypting and circumventing such filtering measures. Next up, snooping into your phone calls, wait a minute… they already have done that!
Possibly the funiest escape happened close to my home. A recent condo development has stirred an outcry from local enviromental groups which argue that the development is illegal, damaging to the enviroment and impedes access to a historic site. A week ago, one of the protesters- Tito Kayak climbed atop a contruction crane and managed to paralize the construction. A local court finally ordered Tito to get off the crane and issued an arrest warrant. Tito came down but manage to elude the cops in a way that makes Charlie Chaplin’s Keystone Cops look like a documentary drama. Instead of comming down the crane as everyone expected – using the crane’s ladder, he opted instead to rappel down the crane using a rope. As hundreds of protesters, police and onlookers watched in amazement, he jumped into a kayak (they do not call this guy Tito Kayak for nothing) which was placed by another protester and kayaked away. A Police boat was anchored nearby and two cops on jet skis failed to stop him as he kayaked below a low bridge in the Condado Lagoon. He emerged in the other side of the bridge and was caught by the cops, but to everyone’s amazement – it was not Tito! It turns out that as Tito paddled under the bridge he swapped places with another protester dressed as him. A Thomas Crown Affair type escape then occurred in which a dozen or so protesters jumped in and confused police for an hour or so. Two police helicopters arrived at the scene with spotlights but where unable to locate Tito. About 2 hours of searching and the cops gave up. Now the question in everyone’s mind is… Where is Tito!?
News Article: Environmental activist escapes Puerto Rico police after standoff atop a crane
Video: Tito Kayak Escape
The second generation of the Zune was announced last week. I haven’t played around with one but I see some very good hardware with good potential but "restrained" features. The device has WiFi which should open the door to some interesting scenarios, such as what Apple did with Starbucks, but seems severely restricted on the current incarnation of the device. I do realize WiFi consumes a lot of power, which would make sense why in order to perform a WiFi sync the device needs to be plugged in to a power source, but if power consumption was not a constraint, one killer scenario does come to mind which would make me run out to a store; Pandora streaming to a Zune – enough said…
Google Earth is becoming the defacto GIS client knowadays. I started experimenting with Windows Live Local. I like the Collections feature which allows for drawing polygons and lines onto a map. Not bad… Google Earth also provides a similar functionality, but only premium version. Yet, it would be nice if Windows Live Local allows for Import/Export of the collections data (to from a KML?).
Still don’t digg the "Live Local" name, "Windows Live Maps" seemed much easier.
Here is a collection I created fairly quickly of the UPRM Campus
With more festivals than there are calendars years, we better be a happy bunch!
KRT Wire | 03/28/2005 | Puerto Ricans are happiest people in the world, study finds
Well, Yahoo acquired Flickr. I am always optimistic about these things, but lets hope Yahoo does not slow down Flickr’s momentum.
Yahoo’s game of photo tag | CNET News.com
The company where my wife works for offered her a weekend cruise to some of the islands in the Caribbean. We just left St. Kitts and are enroute to St. Marteen. Good news for me, we have access to the web on board! I am right now blogging from the ship. All that is left is to have in flight web access for those long flights.
I added a new travelogue to my site with some photos from Seattle, WA. I’ll be updating it as I add more photos.
José Oliver-Didier 