obfuscate
ob·fus·cate [óbfə skàyt] verb

1.  transitive and intransitive verb make something obscure: to make something obscure or unclear, especially by making it unnecessarily complicated

2.  transitive verb make dark: to make something dark or hard to see (archaic)

3.  transitive verb confuse: to make somebody confused (archaic)

[Mid-16th century. From late Latin obfuscat -, the past participle stem of obfuscare “to darken,” from fuscus “dark.”]

-  ob·fus·ca·tion [òbfə skáysh’n], noun

facetious
fa·ce·tious [fə sshəss] adjective

1. supposed to be funny: intended to be humorous but often silly or inappropriate

2. not in earnest: not to be taken seriously • a facetious suggestion

[Late 16th century. From French facétieux, from facétie “joke,” from Latin facetia, from facetus “graceful, witty.”]

-  fa·ce·tious·ly, adverb

-  fa·ce·tious·ness, noun

ra·pa·cious [rə páyshəss] adjective

1. grasping: greedy and grasping, especially for money, and sometimes willing to use unscrupulous means to obtain what is desired

2. destructive and vicious: engaging in violent pillaging and likely to harm or destroy things

3. ZOOLOGY predatory: living by eating live prey

[Mid-17th century. From Latin rapac-, stem of rapax “tearing, grasping,” from rapere (see RAPE1).]

-  ra·pa·cious·ly, adverb

-  ra·pa·cious·ness, noun

-  ra·pa·ci·ty, noun

animus
an·i·mus [ánnəməss] noun

1. hostility: a feeling or display of animosity

2. disposition: an attitude or feeling that motivates somebody’s actions

3. woman’s masculine side: in Jungian psychology, the masculine aspect of a woman’s personality

[Early 19th century. From Latin, “mind, spirit.”]

virago
vi·ra·go [vi rg](plural vi·ra·goes, vi·ra·gos) noun

1. offensive term: an offensive term for a woman that describes her as domineering, angry, and loud

2. courageous woman: a woman who is strong and brave (archaic)

[Pre-12th century. From Latin, from vir “man, husband” (source of English VIRILE).]

-  vi·rag·i·nous [vi rájjənəss], adjective

solecism
sol·e·cism [sóllə sìzzəm, sṓlə sìzzəm] noun

1. grammatical mistake: a mistake in grammar or syntax

2. error: something incorrect, inappropriate, or inconsistent

3. breach of good manners: an action that breaks the rules of etiquette or good manners

[Mid-16th century. Ultimately via Latin soloecismus from Greek soloikismos, from soloikos “speaking incorrectly,” literally “inhabitant of Soloi” (in ancient Cilicia, southernTurkey), whose Attic dialect was considered unattractive.]

-  sol·e·cist, noun

-  sol·e·cis·ti·cal [sòllə sístik’l, slə sístik’l], adjective

-  sol·e·cis·ti·cal·ly [sòllə sístiklee, slə sístiklee], adverb

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Now I'm posting this using a bookmarklet thingy.

Still getting this error when I click on the Trackback link:

I find this whole trackback thing totally confusing. I vaguely understand how it works, but as far as actually using it, well it makes my brain hurt. A lot. So let me attempt to test it with this post. I bet it doesn't work, tho because I have no clue to what I'm doing!

Director of Ronin, The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz and more dead of a stroke at the age of 72. That sucks, he made some great movies.

A new way of looking at the war on terrorism. Lets just hope the terrorists stay dead.

There is a story in the NY Times (sub required) detailing how AOL/Time Warner is sending nasty cease and desist letters to people who hook up their broadband internet connections to wireless networks and let the public use it for free.

Here's another article. Here's the web page of a guy who got busted. Here's another one.

Personally, I think the idea of having free, public access points distributed this way is a great idea. Of course, the media companies and ISP's get all upset over it. They call it theft and bring up the spectre of criminals using this for nefarious purposes. Bullshit! All they care about is money it seems. Really, if you have a publicly available access point outside somewhere, are you going to spend the whole day out there surfing the net? I doubt it. Most likely, it'll be a quick, easy way for somebody to check their e-mail or what have you while they're in the neighbourhood. Not a big bandwith-sucker.

Anyway, I can't see them being too successful at putting a stop to this. Only people who publicize their sites on the net are likely to get busted. People keeping a lower profile will be more successful and proliferate. IMNSFHO, of course.

Some guy posted his cable speeds in shawcable.users-general and I thought I would try the same speed tests as him to see how they compare. His speeds were way faster, sometimes 5X faster! The crazy thing is, he is using Shaw cable and lives in Calgary, same as me. So I messed around all night trying to get faster speeds, but it was no use. Seems I'm stuck with a top speed of around 300 KB/Sec. It was possible to get over 600 KB/Sec just a few months ago, I wonder why it changed?

Yippeee! Its Canada Day and I get the day off. What fun its been. I got to clean my printer, but its still printing streaks accross my documents. I hate that. I watched the last half of "Proof of Life". I'm just glad I didn't have to sit thru the first half. Stupid, boring movie. Anf now I make Icheban!