Posts by Keefey

OkCupid falls out of love with 'anti-gay' Firefox, tells people to see other browsers

Absolutely. My position here is that it's not an overarching cause he donated to, like Greenpeace or whatever, but that he specifically chucked a grand at a specific non-secular (effectively, at its core), very focused cause that aims to deny basic rights to a significant portion of even the company he was working for at the time. His position is that, even though mozilla has this amazing, welcoming culture, that he doesn't agree with it. I'm questioning that assumption because the cause was so specific. I think it's safe to make a conclusion from that assumption.

Knowing that donations above a certain level become public you surely must wonder why he would do it.

Please believe me that I'm not a Militant Gay. I'm questioning, not judging. And I'm ultra-proud to be working for a company that embodies the same beliefs that Mozilla do.

That's not what I said at all. I'm more than confident that he will do a sterling job at the helm, I'm questioning whether his appointment matches the core corporate social responsibilty ideals that the company quite publicly bases itself upon, and one in which even staff of the company feel uncomfortable with. I'm questioning the ethics, not his ability. If I had said the above statement without mentioning my sexuality would you still have been so hostile?

As a gay man I have to admit that I find his promotion and the comments here disheartening. I do believe there's a difference between holding an opinion and funding a campaign which only leads to fear and hate. This is particularly so for a company that prides itself on an ethical responsibility to providing something that extends humanity; to being a force for good. Just reading the tweets from Mozilla employees shows this. It's beyond the OK cupid stunt and has been for weeks. The question is: is Brendan's appointment ethically exclusive to the ideals that Mozilla, as a company, is striving for?

Obviously, being an gay, I'm biased in my opinion here, but it's not just a case of opinion. If I could throw money at my cause - for a cause which I believe is a basic right - I would, but I'm just not in that position. So, does the fact that someone at the helm of an organisation that has such roots in ethical responsibility hold, and actively throw money at, a belief so contrary to those core values sit uncomfortably? Pretty much. I have always loved Mozilla so I find this decision surprising.

Am I going to boycott? No. I like what Mozilla are trying to achieve. Do I think it was a mistake? Absolutely.

Prop8 would have affected me little as a Brit living in Australia, but, living in a country where there's obviously little separation of church from state, companies such as Mozilla have the ability to send an enormous positive message, and this isn't one.

Australia's opposition cuts funds to IT research outfit

Re: LNP policy

Implantable, manageable pain control

Australia's first working bionic eye

Embedded virtualisation software used in over 1 billion mobile phones

The reduction of millions of on-road miles by large-scale supply-chain companies through use of their software

There you go.

Apple bashes 'gay cure' app

Pah

What about the parents who download this crap and then subject the content to their children?

Apple 'gay-cure' app severely slapped

Meh

There are straight versions of the same thing. Grindr is not facilitating hate speech, nor is it brainwashing, advocating a same-sex lifestyle, it's just a tool.

Panasonic pitches monster 3D plasma TV at monster price

And now for the ads

And I bet the UK version of this is crippled with flashing adverts all over the Freeview EPG too.

Critics aim to sink Titanic ice cubes

UK Stockists...

Amazon!

*buys*

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Exit-Interiors-GANDT-Titonic-Tray/dp/B001GQ2SQ6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1260880851&sr=8-1-spell

Beeb censors Fairytale of New York

Someone needs to stop watching Torchwood...

... if he's so offended by the gayboys. You have a plethora of other channels to watch, exercise your thumb rather than rant on about an "agenda". Personally, I love having a bit of homosexuality shoved in my face.

At Last!

As a bender I for one welcome an end to this maddening outrage; I can now put away my placards, and I'm glad I don't have to burn an effigy of Kirsty MacColl, it took me so long to get the make-up just right. Still, I think it would have been better if they'd "replaced" the offending word with something more appropriate, like they did to Ghostbusters ("Forget you!"), for example: "You scumbag, you maggot, you're a - *male brummie voice* WATCHER OF TAGGART"

Now, excuse me, I'm off to sing some non-denomination, non-judgemental winterval carols, while I think of other as-yet-intact songs that have been going for the best part of 20 years that can be the focus of my rage.

Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot K850i camera phone

Marble Madness

The reviewer also missed out Marble Madness 3D that comes pre-loaded on the phone, a game completely controlled by tilting the phone. Really, really impressive - although Vodafone take it off for some reason, replacing it with a load of crappy demos.

I've had the phone about a week now and on the whole it's pretty good. I do find the D-Pad a bit tricky at times, as when texting I sometimes hit the up arrow instead of the letter a, causing tghe cursor to jump into the middle of another word - and I don't have particularly fat fingers. Also, the camera doesn't seem to take pictures as well at the K800i did - it feels almost as if the flash is out of sync with the shutter, so all my pics come out darker than they would normally be. And the touch screen is great except you instinctively want the rest of the screen to be touch sensitive too, and I obviously keep pressing "select" with my ear when on a call, so when I finish it I see it's about to send a blank text message to the first entry in my contacts list; I've had to create a dummy one called "Aaa" so as not to bombard my alphabetically challenged friend with speechless texts.

Other notable ommissions on the phone: no ability to put the phone in clock mode - the K800i would tell me without having to touch it what the time was or if I had a text. This requires me to press the zoom keys on the side to get the same info. And they still have that awful "WORD NOT IN DICTIONARY" message that comes up, completely interrupting the flow of your texting; a simple bleep would suffice. However, thank god they've moved the keys around so it's not so easy to accidentally dump the message you're working on into drafts.

I just wish Nokia would put a decent flash on their phones...