Greetings and Salutations,
I have decided to adjust how I have been doing these videos, they apparently are not very effective in their current state, and so I shall be doing them in a theme, hopefully more of you readers out there will gain enough courage to commentify below. The new theme for the new series starting today, yes this means that the previous two videos will not be voted on or included in this series, unless you send me videos arguing one way or another or giving me a vote, will be music. By music I don't mean hard rock etc. I mean moving pieces, music that all you have to do is listen to the melody and your soul takes over and you feel without even knowing all of the feelings the composer and/or musicians are feeling. Little warning, many of these songs may be sad, as unfortunately sadness is one of the only emotions which carries through any medium, from music to paintings and even dance. If you have any suggestions for good songs that you think are very emotional, whether positively or negatively, please feel free to post a link in a comment below, or send a link to me in an email.
Today's video is the main theme from the movie Schindler's List, by John Williams. The song is a sad one, and has at its back the story of a German who works with Jews during the holocaust in WWII. The video itself was made by "Stigno89", though the music as said before was composed and directed by John Williams and the violin melody is played by the world famous Itzhak Perlman. Here's the movie and please tell me what particular emotion this song evokes in you, how good you think it is, and perhaps any other tidbits of information your brain produces.
I only received one word usage suggestion for this past week again, so I suppose it is the winner, again, same person. Last week's winner is Tom Bombadil Memorizer with their statement "Unlike many other books I have had to read for school, "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens is not at all a soporific work." Congratulations for your commentification, and now for this week's word of the week:
Quiescent
~Quiet, Still, Inactive
Don't forget to comment below and rate the word and or video, I shall unfortunately not be able to post this Wednesday nor this upcoming Saturday due to me being out of town, though if I find a way I will certainly try to post.
Farewells and Valedictions,
Eoin Anndra Davis
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
1 H4XX0R J00 PH001Z!!!11!!!!1!
Greetings and Salutations,
Today I give you a shorter post, not for lack of information, not for lack of interest, and certainly not for lack of controversy. The term "Hacker" or even the more politically correct one "Cracker" has many controversial views surrounding it, some positive outlooks on it, and there are a very large number of people that fit into both categories. So here's a couple of definitions for the term hacker which give it a controversial name sometimes: someone who hacks friend's computers in a playful sense (like making their computer say happy birthday on it), someone who is incredibly good with technology (like Ajay Bhatt), or someone who hacks computers for personal gain and or to cause mischief. Basically, a hacker is someone who has either really good skill with a computer, or has learned how to compromise the internal security of a computer through various means. We'll go ahead and ignore the first two definitions of hackers because they are socially acceptable and cause no courtesy problems generally.
The main reason I will not be giving as long a post this time, if you haven't figured it out already, is because there is an incredible amount of information in this, and at the same time there truly isn't any secure information that everybody can agree on. In addition, a lot of the things that would have to be brought up are for one, too hard for most standard readers here to understand, two, there is a lot of information that not everybody needs to know, even though you can easily find ways of learning it for free on the web, and three, I really don't want the blog to be hacked. The basic principle of a hacker is finding weaknesses and vulnerabilities in a webpage or computer connection, and then exploiting them so as to either gain information, release viruses, or a multitude of other devious things. Many people think that this can't be bad, even if they are caught shortly, but it still can cause problems. One of my good friends over at D+pad, Joseph B. Elkouby, who I suppose I can hardly call a good friend due to the limited number of correspondences we have shared, though that is beside the point, had his comic hacked several times, and he is still dealing with the people who are doing it. Imagine someone coming into your house and looking at stuff and moving it around, even if they don't take anything, it still gets into your mind and you become afraid even in your own home. This is the same sort of situation, I imagine you know already that I am going to say that you shouldn't do this and make up some special sounding rule to go along with it, but some things are just common sense, don't do it, it's against the law as well.
So all this goes to show that yes it's pretty cool to be able to do this, but don't do anything illegal and don't mess with other people's stuff. This is pretty basic and I'm sure that at one point during your upbringing someone, whether it was your mom, dad, or other form of guardian told you this. Like rule 11 basically states: if you aren't mature and have the standard morals of society, don't use the internet.
And with that, I close. Thanks as usual for listening or not, comment if you desire, or not. The rules are being compiled as it goes and will be ready by the end for the final post. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment or email us at our new address. If you want to make accusations or have any general complaints or see any errors, whether small grammatical errors or large continuity ones, please feel free to let me know.
Farewells and Valedictions,
Eoin Anndra Davis
Today I give you a shorter post, not for lack of information, not for lack of interest, and certainly not for lack of controversy. The term "Hacker" or even the more politically correct one "Cracker" has many controversial views surrounding it, some positive outlooks on it, and there are a very large number of people that fit into both categories. So here's a couple of definitions for the term hacker which give it a controversial name sometimes: someone who hacks friend's computers in a playful sense (like making their computer say happy birthday on it), someone who is incredibly good with technology (like Ajay Bhatt), or someone who hacks computers for personal gain and or to cause mischief. Basically, a hacker is someone who has either really good skill with a computer, or has learned how to compromise the internal security of a computer through various means. We'll go ahead and ignore the first two definitions of hackers because they are socially acceptable and cause no courtesy problems generally.
The main reason I will not be giving as long a post this time, if you haven't figured it out already, is because there is an incredible amount of information in this, and at the same time there truly isn't any secure information that everybody can agree on. In addition, a lot of the things that would have to be brought up are for one, too hard for most standard readers here to understand, two, there is a lot of information that not everybody needs to know, even though you can easily find ways of learning it for free on the web, and three, I really don't want the blog to be hacked. The basic principle of a hacker is finding weaknesses and vulnerabilities in a webpage or computer connection, and then exploiting them so as to either gain information, release viruses, or a multitude of other devious things. Many people think that this can't be bad, even if they are caught shortly, but it still can cause problems. One of my good friends over at D+pad, Joseph B. Elkouby, who I suppose I can hardly call a good friend due to the limited number of correspondences we have shared, though that is beside the point, had his comic hacked several times, and he is still dealing with the people who are doing it. Imagine someone coming into your house and looking at stuff and moving it around, even if they don't take anything, it still gets into your mind and you become afraid even in your own home. This is the same sort of situation, I imagine you know already that I am going to say that you shouldn't do this and make up some special sounding rule to go along with it, but some things are just common sense, don't do it, it's against the law as well.
So all this goes to show that yes it's pretty cool to be able to do this, but don't do anything illegal and don't mess with other people's stuff. This is pretty basic and I'm sure that at one point during your upbringing someone, whether it was your mom, dad, or other form of guardian told you this. Like rule 11 basically states: if you aren't mature and have the standard morals of society, don't use the internet.
And with that, I close. Thanks as usual for listening or not, comment if you desire, or not. The rules are being compiled as it goes and will be ready by the end for the final post. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment or email us at our new address. If you want to make accusations or have any general complaints or see any errors, whether small grammatical errors or large continuity ones, please feel free to let me know.
Farewells and Valedictions,
Eoin Anndra Davis
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Press "Start"...... "A" Will Also Do
Greetings and Salutations,
My apologies for not posting recently, I was on restriction, but hopefully I will have no more of those. Random personal update, I have recently gained an automobile and thus have considerably more freedom. Having a car is very nice, if you don't have one you should get one, or get older so you can get one, or get a job so you can get one. On a completely different note, I will be doing the videos not on a six week series as previously stated, but on a six movie series, which will make a little bit more sense.
The video of this week is "Some Awesome Things", by Kladblog showing different actions humans can perform in order to inspire us to do all that we are capable of. The video itself was made by Enola Arvalap Nebork Capepro, or at least that is what the video says, the music is wonderful too. Commentify below if you see someone failing....
I unfortunately only received one word suggestion for this past week, so I suppose it is the winner, though I would like to state that from now on, unless it is either sent to ticnag@gmail.com or as a comment below, it does not count, this is mainly because there are some viewers who cannot see those posts, though if you would like to do that as well, please feel free. Last "week's" winner is Tom Bombadil Memorizer with their statement "That was indubitably a fantastic shot." Congratulations for your commentification, and now for this week's word of the week:
Soporific
~Causing or tending to cause sleep or a dulled awareness
Don't forget to comment below and rate the word and or video, I shall see you shortly, when wednesday comes around again.
Farewells and Valedictions,
Eoin Anndra Davis
My apologies for not posting recently, I was on restriction, but hopefully I will have no more of those. Random personal update, I have recently gained an automobile and thus have considerably more freedom. Having a car is very nice, if you don't have one you should get one, or get older so you can get one, or get a job so you can get one. On a completely different note, I will be doing the videos not on a six week series as previously stated, but on a six movie series, which will make a little bit more sense.
The video of this week is "Some Awesome Things", by Kladblog showing different actions humans can perform in order to inspire us to do all that we are capable of. The video itself was made by Enola Arvalap Nebork Capepro, or at least that is what the video says, the music is wonderful too. Commentify below if you see someone failing....
I unfortunately only received one word suggestion for this past week, so I suppose it is the winner, though I would like to state that from now on, unless it is either sent to ticnag@gmail.com or as a comment below, it does not count, this is mainly because there are some viewers who cannot see those posts, though if you would like to do that as well, please feel free. Last "week's" winner is Tom Bombadil Memorizer with their statement "That was indubitably a fantastic shot." Congratulations for your commentification, and now for this week's word of the week:
Soporific
~Causing or tending to cause sleep or a dulled awareness
Don't forget to comment below and rate the word and or video, I shall see you shortly, when wednesday comes around again.
Farewells and Valedictions,
Eoin Anndra Davis
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