HBO's A Song of Ice and Fire (2010-2014)

HBO now doing something very cool such as bringing the best fantasy novel series to television. Peter Jackson must've messed up. These are done in seasons with the first season "Game of Thrones" (book 1). Then a new book comes out in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. The books won Locus, Nebula and Hugo awards. The Song of Ice and Fire storyline must be pretty liberal for HBO to turn it into five miniseries.



Looking forward to it.

Google+ Impressions

http://ia700700.us.archive.org/2/items/GooglePreview/google.mp4

The main feature of google plus is you can relocate messages to certain friends unlike Facebook. I had to integrate Picasa into it to join. I have nobody to talk to since they cannot join the beta. All the people i searched weren't on Google+ yet. I know I am the first one in my class to be on Google+

Mall of America

Walking around the MoA is funny in 2001 and 2010 by the Persian kiosk. "excuse me sir, can i ask you a question", "beautiful wife sir, beautiful wife, can i speak to you for a second", "wow look at this couple, come over here for a moment, let me show you something"... then when you ignore them they say "Have a GREAT afternoon" (f*** off)

Last time I was at MoA in June 2001, I got a laser pointer, Daytona USA Dreamcast. 9 Years later, I only took pictures of the place for guests.


2010

Why Solaris went open source: to not get compensated over by cheaper RedHat's ALC_FLR.3 !

Researching OpenSolaris 2010, a free System V UNIX, I come across a website that explains that in order to compete against Red Hat Linux in Government security requirements, they had to make the price point equal Red Hat's with only the customer service charges. So Red Hat was the first and one of three Linuxs to get EAL4 Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 including RedHat Linux, Oracle Linux, Suse Linux which is why the US Government is the largest buyer of Red Hat Linux. It only took OpenSolaris a year to be created after Red Hat accomplished this. The question is which one would you pick if customer service and patches were comparable with the latest Red Hat Enterprise Desktop? OpenSolaris has ZFS. I'm using OpenSuse BTW! Northrop Grumman likes Suse Linux too.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/132978/red_hat_linux_gets_top_government_security_rating.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/government.html

Free Japanese SHMUP: Soldner-X

This game is a shoot em up from SideQuest Studios and gets 8.0 on game sites. Only 288.9 MB download.



Download

It's okay

Xiphos

I found this program for Windows while looking at the Ubuntu Christian edition review. One of the modules is the free New English translation (NETfree) and another module is NetNotesfree for footnotes. There is the King James Edition module, but i don't like it. It is only useful for searching for text that would be hard in the book. It reads to you.

It is useful for throwing random quotes out during flame wars. I think there is a exorcist module. The forum members will think you're a Champlain and/or exorist!