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Flickr is categorized as "Personal Network Storage and Backup"... the same people behind this must've been the same genii behind DOPA

i am here in perth.

i live across the street from a supermarket. i now have a shopping cart in my living room.

the campus is a cross between microsoft corporate housing, queen's and stanford.

i am supposed to be doing internet research here, but funnily enough, curtin internet access (which is basically the only i can get because i live in campus housing) outright blocks msn, pop email, irc, youtube, google video and world of warcraft. i get to use flickr for a total of 60 minutes for the entire semester. and whenever i access livejournal or twitter, it gives me a warning saying i'm not supposed to be using it unless its for real serious biznass and then i have to click yes, i am doing real serious biznass. facebook doesnt even load.

and i cant use my voip phone or wireless router. and the people i talk to in tech support have no idea what these things are. i'm beginning to freak out, just a little tiny bit.


"yeh of course you can get internet, no worries mate!"

secretsoflife sent me this. its a new campaign to try and convince kids not to share their personal info online. they'll even send you a ring to help you remember. a real ring. not a ringtone, like i originally thought... like one that plays some cheesy message every time your phone rings telling you it might be an internets predator calling. no. kids these days don't want digital assets! they want real shit.

but the irony of the whole thing is that to get the ring to remind you not to share your address or name or birthday with people online, you have to give them your address, name and birthday, online. 2 SMRT 4 U!

seen today, while running errands:

1.) 40 degrees below with windchill. downtown toronto. a citytv reporter, following her camera man down the street. in her left hand, her citytv microphone. in her left, a giant purple-two-scoop ice cream cone.

helen says its very canadian to eat ice cream in the winter.


2.) a lady driving her giant suv, talking on her cell phone with her left hand, checking her email on her crackberry with the right. driving with ?