Allegory

Sky in burnt brown our raft blasted ashore,
Its self never to great waves adore.
In this vicious night we stumble forth,
Snakes and great beasts our path is now fraught.

Now Death is nearer than anyone I know.
Leaves with blood jaws resist our every mow,
Leaving us the knowledge we aren’t welcome.
Not looking back, through thicket we must go.

Funny things happened time again.
“Why, the fierce tigers are really tame!”
“What, the dreadful leaves actually taste like milk?”
Fortune truly treats us her whelps.

Game golden and glorious yoked us hunting onwards,
Seductive Desire told us prideful words
Spinning legends of future bliss.
Giving nothing yet all of us then felt nothing amiss.

She honey found and retired,
They castles built by lakes tranquil quiet.
Though many of us are hapless and found none these things,
Solace in bitterness brings.

Then comrade faithful, envious foe now,
Enmity’s killed our golden vow
Amity, it had though no funeral.
Total war cries march on forgetting the nominal.

Once a pack as forest wolves,
Reluctant rouges trumping flaming lava slitherers,
Reveling in painful pranks, sharing in unfair barter,
Ostensibly fighting we now falter.

Waters of sea a lost memory beckons the weak of us,
As their ill plight dreams the past
And illusory content from excitement.
Wish fairies tempt these men like they used to tempt us then.

Then finally the other Water approaches
Crumble forward, friends, a salty wind encroaches!
Chains bind some as wings adorn others…

The mighty Exodus blows to ashes.

Copyrighted or Public Domain?

We know that you cannot copy a book word for word, because that is protected under the author's copyright. However, you can copy the ideas presented in the book, paraphrasing the original author's words, and that will be legal.

But what about music? If I transcribe one person's sheet music into another notation, a process that effectively transforms the original transcriber's 'words' that effectively retains the author's ideas, will that be legal? Or will the case of music have the arrangement and order of the notes be the author's implementation rather than ideas?

And what about programming? As copyrights do not extend to the ideas, that is the inherent loginc of the statement, surely I can change the variable names and the construct names and call it my own. But what is the legality of it, actually?

I am not a lawyer. D:

Answer to organizing bookmarks

Felt painful every time your bookmarks menu got over-cluttered? I feel your pain.

I have this idea. I think we should abstract bookmarks into files and mount them into the filesystem. So the directory of your (unified) bookmarks are /home/user/Bookmarks. Better yet, the bookmark files can contain data on the files for offline browsing.

One man's chicken is another man's poison

The blog is having one of those transient moments when one wake up in the middle of a deep sleep due to a bad dream. The Handsome Prince is yet to arrive.

A bad dream. The dream being me, and the badness of it being chicken. I tried to buy an egg and mayonnaise sandwich. I got a chicken one, due to the carelessness of the vendor. I thought to myself, "lucky me! A chicken sandwich for a cheap price! And since I've already bitten into it, I can't possibly return it, can I?"

And I ate the sandwich.

The previous time I ate chicken, it was at KFC. I vomited 10 minutes after eating the chicken something. (roll? Bandito?)

10 minutes later I vomited.

Inactivity

Blog is going into hibernation. Blog will not be waking up until it receives a kiss from the Handsome Prince.

Which may be never.

Opera Unite

I'm advocating it.

What is Opera Unite?

First of all I will have to explain what Opera is. Opera is an Internet suite. What this phrase of marketing jargon means is that it is a web browser (think Firefox), a mail client (think Outlook Express) and chat client (think mIRC) all in one. It also handles torrents, but I won't count on it. Opera has lovely widgets, and its interface is customizable as well, with quite a number of beautiful themes available for download (downloading them, up to applying the themes is all streamlined).

And Opera is the fastest, most responsive browser I've tried. And I've tried Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.

Opera alone stands its ground for advocacy. But then there's the Unite part. What Unite provides you is a streamlined interface for hosting your own content.

First is the File Sharing tool, which allows you to share with your friends files straight from a folder on your computer. You just put your stuff inside your folder, give your friends the password, and they can offload whatever you put inside, with no interaction required from you

Next is the fridge. What this is is a notice board, where you and your friends can leave messages for each other

Then comes my favorite feature, the Media Player. Like file sharing, you put your misic and video files into a folder. But instead of downloading, you get to preview the music and pictures of your friends from your browser.

The photo sharing service is more of the same, for your photo files

The Lounge is a place like your IRC chatroom, except prettified. And your friends do not need to run IRC too!

The Web server introduces people to running their own web pages. However, there is no PHP or other scripting capability so I guess that severely limits what one can do. Still, it's awesome for a single person to host their own homepage.

Xenoglossia

I upon my island, looking at you
Yet I'm little better than one in zoos
Words from my mouth are rather squawks to ears
My coos all seem to elicit your fears