After 6 weeks on Ko Pha Ngan neglecting the internet (it gets too much attention anyway doesn’t it), I am now in Malaysia in the Cameron Highlands, with wifi in my room (but no plug socket, they are in the common area) and back to writing and editing photographs.
Thailand to Malaysia.
Transisted.
I feel more comfortable these last days. The sun is shining very strongly, whilst looking very beautiful outside it is quite oppressive during midday. I moved to a different area again. This time I am staying in the middle of the main road on the island. In an area called Baan Tai. There are more shops, more local places to eat, and there’s more life here.
Transitions.
It seems as though each time I change my lifestyle I have to go through a sort of transition period. I remember the first ever time I came travelling, arriving in Bangkok, I was afraid. I questioned what I was doing there, what was I looking for, did I come to far to look for this thing and so on. Then came a time where I was no longer afraid, I was catching goods boats to remote islands, I was strolling through towns less visited, eating where I pleased and what I pleased, saying hello to everyone. Arriving back in England with such a mindset was a shock. There were no adventures to be had, no goods boats to get on, people no longer wanted to know my name and where I came from. There was however familiarity and friends and family. Everyone spoke English and everyone understood each other on that “English” level.
More on Streamline.net
Upon researching Streamline.net I find that so many people have had woes with this company. Their tactic of doubling charges seems prevalent. As does refusing to cancel accounts and demanding money, threatening charges upon charges if you don’t pay them.
I find this site http://aldavies.co.uk/ from a guy who has had problems with them charging for a web site that they hosted for him, when someone else owned the website! They sold him the domain name, yet someone else already owned it! And they charged him to host it when they weren’t even doing it. They could have informed him that someone else had the site but they didn’t they charged him. Not helpful at all.
Here are some links to other woes about Streamline.net
Link 1
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Link 3
Link 4, this one is interesting as it points out which laws they are breaking, and references someone who got their money back by quoting these laws.
Link 5 this is the Uk web host review site, which says AVOID STREAMLINE LIKE THE PLAGUE! Turns out that they were once kinda respectable, but they sold out to some other company, which turned them into evil scammers.
Link 6 some other blogger and their legal battle with streamline.net. Again nothing good to be said about them!
Link 6 A huge list of complaints against streamline. Nice one streamline for being such twats!
Link 7 Web hosting reviews, again AVOID STREAMLINE LIKE THE PLAGUE!
Link 8 “Why I had to resort to social media to get a refund from streamline”
Link 8 A review of streamline.net Say’s what started out well turned into a nightmare, I sympathize with you!
Link 9 “Avoid at all costs. This company sums up all that is bad about the internet.”
Link 10 Another forum, lots of unhappy people.
Link 10 Someone tries a trial with Streamline.net which then…….turns into a nightmare!!
Link 11 Streamline.net FAIL
Link 12 A review of streamline……BAD!
Link 13 documents just how they are breaking the law.
Link 13 Web host chat, chats about how bad Streamline.net are.
Link 14 Streamline.net…very painful!
Link 15 web hosting talk, bad bad Streamline.net once again.
Link 16 Streamline.net renewal problem
Link 17 another review, again, terrible company, really bad people.
Link 18 “Streamline.net are crap”
Link 19 “Streamline.net plumbs new depths”
Link 20 Streamline.net WARNING!
Link 21 Collection of reviews, you can see the review scores drop over time.
Link 22 Value for money…..one star out of five.
The funny thing is, that now they are still my host! They refuse to cancel my account even though I haven’t paid them the money for this service. Doesn’t that seem a little odd?
I will point them in the direction of my site as it is. Luckily my site is set up through wordpress, which means I can still alter it. If I were to rely on FTP to chance my site I wouldn’t be able to do anything. So from now on my site is dedicated to revealing truths about Streamline.net They have some notes in their contract that says if I say things they don’t agree with they can cancel my account, I WANT THEM TO DO THIS!
They also say that they don’t allow pornography, maybe this will be the next step. I will phone them tomorrow and ask them what will happen if I do this. Their terms and conditions say they will cancel my account!
STREAMLINE.NET
My webhost Streamline.Net has frozen my account. They tried to bill me recently but they couldn’t because the credit card had expired. So they emailed and asked for more card details. I saw that their costs had doubled, because there was an offer for the previous years I was with them and this offer is over now. So I requested to cancel my account but they refused saying that I agreed to renew it by not replying to the first email that said they will renew it that week.
Now also they have stopped me from changing to another host because they have become the registrar of the site, I don’t recall when this happened, or even if I was notified of it.
Upon looking further into this problem I see that Streamline.net have upset many people in the past. So be warned! Stay away from streamline.net!
Isreal and Iran.
What's the more appealing exchange?
The governemnts of both Israel and Iran are spitting and scowling at each other whilst the people of these countries exchange messages of love over the internet. The difference of opinion from government and the people disgusts me. I think people should instantly overthrow any government or so called leaders that propose unwanted events that cause loss of life, in this case war. We shouldn’t stand for things being done on our behalf that we don’t agree with. We need to place power where it can do the least harm.
Best Cry Ever – is it ok to Laugh?
Recently a friend pointed me towards a youtube video, a video of a guy that tells his -I’m guessing- father, that he still loves him, then his father starts to cry, an odd wailing sort of cry that made me laugh quite a lot. Then he directed me towards the same video, however this time it had Guiles music from Street Fighter 2 over the top, with the claim that Guiles music makes everything better. So then I emailed some friends these videos as they made me laugh quite a lot, and some of my friends said the videos weren’t funny at all. One friend even said “laughting at someones crying is an unhealthy egoistic detatchment in which i am not into.” The people that weren’t into it are predominantly Portuguese, all my English friends find the video very funny.
Here are the videos
Without Guile’s music
With Guile’s Music
I don’t think there is anything wrong at all with laughing at it, really I wasn’t laughing at someone’s tears, I was laughing at the style of crying, which is kinda unique, and it being a really heartfelt moment there comes this odd wailing cry, takes you by surprise, and it makes you/me laugh.
I’d be interested to know what you thought about the crying, if you laughed, if you felt bad laughing, if you thought it was terrible that someone could laugh and so on.
No to ACTA
There is a direction being discussed that aims to change a few deep aspects to our lives. The following video describes it.
Do you really think record and film companies and game manufacturers are suffering because of illegal downloading? Don’t the budgets for films and rock concerts still reach 100′s of millions of pounds? I never asked for films to devour so much money, and resources. I don’t think musicians should be catapulted to almost god like statuses, lavished with all the consumables the world has to offer simply because they enjoy to play music. I know many musicians that do it for free, they do it because they love music. They don’t need all that money to do it. It’s all about corporations yet again.
And as for medicines, well after a certain amount of time after a company has invented a new compound, the compound then becomes up for grabs, and anyone can synthesise it and sell it. This is what they want to stop, so a corporation has the legal right to OWN a chemical, something you can make and anyone can make given the resources, yet they want to make that illegal, it’s not like your stealing anything, again your making a copy. Copying is not theft, stealing a thing leaves one thing less.
The same goes for the plant patents, however this one to me really takes the piss, they want to patent certain genetic codes. If a plant is shown to have a certain genetic sequence and you didn’t pay for it then you can be done for theft. In America they already do this, and if a farms crops get pollinated by the neighbouring farm which uses patented crops then the farm that hasn’t bought that patent gets sued into oblivion, this has happened more than once.
“Copying is not theft. Stealing a thing leaves one less left Copying it makes one thing more; that’s what copying’s for. Copying is not theft. If I copy yours you have it too One for me and one for you That’s what copies can do If I steal your bicycle you have to take the bus, but if I just copy it there’s one for each of us! Making more of a thing, that is what we call “copying” Sharing ideas with everyone That’s why copying is FUN!”
This act isn’t being proposed to assist the human race in anyway, it’s there to make the rich richer. What with all the protests against the investment culture, this also should take a position at the top of what’s wrong in the world. This reminds me of the fable of king Midas, someone who got so greedy they did something that mortally affected themselves. We should share ideas with ourselves, the human race should do things to better itself, not to better just a few.
If you get a chance to speak up against ACTA then do, sign petitions, go on marches, write to your paper. If this is past I assure you nothing good will come of it, only harm.
Unix creator Dennis Ritchie dies.
Dennis Ritchie was involved in creating Unix, an operating system that birthed Linux. Linux birthed Apple’s OS and all things important, since Windows can’t be trusted. And he also had a hand in creating the C programming language.
He encouraged open source software, which is for free and available for people to tinker with, for the good of all. Something which Apple fight against strongly.
What with all the noise about Steve Job’s death last week I thought I’d make some noise about this guys death. He did a lot more for computing than Steve Jobs it seems important people know about him, but I suspect this death will go largely unnoticed which is a big shame and a sign of how fickle people cant be.
Well, RIP Dennis Ritchie, even if people don’t hear about what you did, for sure they are benefiting from it.
More and more juggling
A rather long video of some juggling practice I did, I guess i’m showing off, but also would love to share and learn more tricks and things. So with this video I throw out a metaphorical fishing line to all you jugglers out there.
Important news?
So in February this year in Iceland there was a revolution. It was a peaceful revolution unlike the revolutions that occurred in the middle east this year. The Icelandic revolution started to brew around 2009, when the economy was trashed as a direct result of private investments. The private investors that did this had just been given a higher credit rating because, previous to the economic crash the economy in Iceland was great. So the private investors took out huge loans and bought many wonderful things, including investments in various private businesses, I don’t have any of the names of the businesses at hand, but as I recall some of them were well known brands here in England. Then it all collapsed, the investments and purchases made by these people amounted to many times their worth, and even the worth of the whole of Iceland. They were allowed to do it, and even encouraged to do so all because of the good economy in Iceland. It shouldn’t have happened, it shouldn’t have been allowed to happen, and the actions of a few shouldn’t be allowed to affect a whole country like it did. So the Icelandic people protested, they started in around 2009, and in February 2011 they changed the government, they completely rewrote the constitution. And we didn’t hear a whisper of it in our mainstream media here in England. It’s news isn’t it? Taking into account that now Iceland have changed their rules and laws, they basically don’t have to pay back all this debt, according to their laws that is, and rightly so I think. They do owe money to the IMF and a few countries, including Denmark and England, but they will never pay it back.
In Israel right now, in Tel Aviv there is a protest going on that has been going on for at least two months. A while back BBC said there was a march in Tel Aviv, and after a small search I found out that the march was more than this, people had been camping out in Tel Aviv for over a month already protesting against not just one thing, but many things! Rising taxes, lowering of taxes for the rich, money spent on war, less money spent for the people. Never in the history of Israel has there been a protest like this, normally it is unthinkable for the Israelis to speak out against their country, they are a very patriotic people, but now they protest like they never did before and we don’t hear a whisper from it.
Recently Muammar Gaddafi was boosted out, his people revolted and then the UN swooped in and got rid of him swiftly. Just before all this there were many reports that Gaddafi was about to start a new currency, a gold backed currency. The “Gold Dinar” since it would be gold backed it would actually have more value than the Dollar, since this is backed by nothing, the value behind it was slipped away in 1933. A new currency backed by gold would affect the dollar for sure, however, lucky for America, Gaddafi was already on his way out. I only heard about this seemingly rather important piece of news yesterday, by literally a guy on the street.
Right now in America, in around 12 cities there are protests against private investors, against the mechanics of wall street. I saw something on the BBC last week, it mentioned a march to wall street that had some arrests and that was it. Looking further into it you will find out that the there have been camps on Wall street for weeks previous, and similar camps in other cities around America, BBC failed to mention these.
Right now in Manchester city centre here in humble lil ole England there is a camp in front of the old library near the G-mex centre. They have vowed not to move until the private investor/banking world changes.
Seems like lately things which I feel are very important are not reported about in the main stream news. I admit the protests in Manchester are quite uneventful at the moment. However the Icelandic revolution, the gold backed African currency and the protests in America are a big thing. So I just thought I’d mention them here.
Facebook does it again
Facebook has been caught using a cookie that logs where you go on the internet even when your not logged into Facebook. So even if you think that you don’t do much on there, so they don’t know much about you, your wrong, they follow you everywhere. Well, not any-more because I’m very sure now that they have been caught doing something naughty they will fess up to all their crimes and become and honest service at last…yeah right.
So do us all a favour and leave Facebook, because whilst you may be thinking that you being a member doesn’t actually matter, your not the only person in the world. And collectively your all giving Facebook a lot of power. An alternative to Facebook would be to actually make your own blog, and encourage your friends to do the same and link them all using a blogroll, easy to do and you will have full control of it all. If you want help just go here.
Source : Gawker, Why You Never Really Log Out Of Facebook
Men
I remember one of my first girlfriends, and the amount of times I did something that I wasn’t aware of and I got punished for it, I thought the bitch was crazy, but now I see it wasn’t her fault, it was mine, men just don’t know what they do wrong naturally. For this I apologise retrospectively and and for all future wrongs I will commit.
Paul MCartney, Wikileaks, The Guardian and LSD.
Right, The Guardian, BBC and all other “media partner’s” of Wikileaks, apparently, you are all condemning Wikileaks because recently they released loads of cables, documents, files and folders with secrets in, secrets that maybe damaging to certain elements in society, and even risk peoples lives! There are over 250,000 files so it would take some work to find the damaging information, but luckily the BBC and The Guardian have linked us to specific files from the leaks to show that there are damaging things in and Wikileaks should get a smacked bottom.
At school did you ever come across a situation where someone said a naughty word, so someone else, a grass, goes to tell a teacher, but upon telling the teacher they say the naughty word, for example “Please Mr Teacher, Wikileaks said fuck, he’s a naughty boy” and the grass, lets call him The Guardian, get’s to say the naughty word AND looks like a good person in the eyes of the teacher, let’s call him Mr You.
Paul Mcartney saw the media doing this sort of thing over 30 years ago.
I’m all for Wikileaks, I want to know everything that’s going with all countries, I want all documents available to me, there is no reason to have secrets other than to deceive and manipulate people.
Evolution, creationism, intelligent design and so on.
I just wrote this little essay on evolution, creationism and intelligent design. I’ve come across this subject a lot across the years, mainly on the internet, I’ve only ever met 2 people I can remember that didn’t believe in evolution at all, (These were two Jehovah’s Witnesses that came to my door in Australia, one guy was American and he had heard of evolution, but laughed about it because “We’re monkey men! pfff! pull the other one!” and the other guy from New Zealand had never been taught anything about it.). Yet on the internet I come across too many people that get very very angry at Charles Darwin’s amazing observations (and I must point out here, that even if he did say his theory was rubbish on his death bed and accept God, it makes no difference, since the idea goes beyond ownership).
Hope you find it informative and interesting!
http://www.picturesandwords.co.uk/index.php/my-work/evolution/
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