I didn’t have time to take my “things I have mistaken” for my cell phone pictures.

Maybe sometime this week when I get the real one I will take pictures of it.

FedEx must be really, really far away from my house. Seems my phone has been on their truck for 3 days. I’d put up a new screen shot but the tracking looks exactly the same. It says that it is coming from Carol Stream but I think maybe it is really coming from California.

When I talked to Linda last night for the final time she let me know that FedEx was supposed to leave me a voicemail to give me a status update. Well, I got nothin’. Where is the love?

I will put up a nice photo gallery later as an account of the exciting things I can have mistaken for my phone in the past few days.

FedEx won’t you please release my baby.

The DVD Forum has allowed Microsoft to become part of its standard for HD-DVD with WMV 9.

Why should this be so scary to manufaturers? They’ll have to get on board the license train. Too they will all be subjet to some bastardized version of Sonic Authorscript which Microsoft licensed a few years ago. I would hate to be a competitor.

Why should this be scary for developers and authors? I hate Macs but if you own one maybe you should ask Steve Jobs to get his act together and lobby harder to the DVD Forum to get some apple technology as a standard. But it looks as if Microsoft has already cut them out.

Why should this be scary to filmakers? You will now have to bow down to what will most likely become the cheapest and most prolific method of HD-DVD delivery. This will come to be true if Microsoft’s track record is any indicator of mass appeal and pricepoint. Let’s hope the quality is up to snuff.

Why should this be scary to consumers? How about having a cookie placed on your HD-DVD device or a tracking number flying off across the Internet everytime you watch your favorite porn with your name associated with it. I can’t prove that this will happen but with WMV you can already require a key for viewing. Wonder if that is tracked?

Hans Blix can’t confirm it, well, yes he can. Kofi Annan is about 99% sure it was happening to him. There is absolute certainty that it was happening to 6 countries at the UN because of a memo leak. They all have a new Big Brother. Who couldn’t use more family? Big brothers like their agaendas to be attended to.

Does it really come as a surprise to anyone that the United States would do this? The same country that trains, supports and then alienates pitbull dictators and terrorists around the globe just to have to fight them in the streets of the developing nation they just plundered. There’s a bit of undeniable history there.

So it is a mystery to me that these people who were violated are upset. With so many intelligencia running around here in the States we need to export some of them just to keep them busy.What a better place that the UN or the home country of those diplomats. Besides with the UN in NYC it would seem un-American not to spy on them too.

Too? Local organized police forces are infiltrating and spying on non-violent progressive groups who oppose war(like these peacenicks are running background checks for people who are interested is stopping a war) and having them pulled in front of grand juries. It just feels right to have them violate foreigners on our soil and abroad too.

My take on the whole deal is that if the current Administration would do this to it’s own citizens it should be no suprise when they export the behavior across the pond(s). It would be nieve to say that it is only this Administration that has engaged in this behavior, though I have no evidence and won’t be searching for any soon.

The rest of the world just needs to grow up and get used to having the US listen to them in their home, office and cell phone as they carry out the business of trying to tear the free world apart. I do not personally believe this but it is continually the way that this type of behavior is reported in popular media here in the states. It is brushed off as complaining and unimportant.

Spying on sovereign nations and their citizens is a problem, a big problem. The backlash from these reported and documented instances of our number 1 export, paranoia, will make diplomacy much harder for the next set of Americans to take over the White House. Diplomacy is a matter of trust and the US has proven that the we cannot be trusted.