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Archives for January 2012

Enter Year of the Dragon

(dragon statue by Swarovski. Takes 490 hours to make one, only 888 were made)

Gong Xi Fa Chai! Happy New Year!

It’s Chinese New Year tomorrow, January 23 2012, and it’s ‘Year of the Dragon’.

It’s the only sign of the Chinese zodiac that is a creature that you cannot see. Powerful and mystical. Mysterious and lucky.

In the old days the dragon represented the king and only the king could wear the dragon symbol on his clothing. The year of the dragon is especially popular.

Things you do to prepare for this:

  • Make sure your home is clean and tidy before the new year
  • Don’t forget your car, everyone forgets their car
  • Don’t take throw out the garbage for 5 days after the new year – – or you are ‘throwing away your money’
  • Take special care not to break any glass – bad luck
  • Try not to make any enemies or quarrel with anyone
  • Wear red underwear for good luck
  • Get a haircut

If you need inspiration for purging, remember when I created ‘The Emporium’, and gave away everything I own?

All of that, gone. And I haven’t thought or missed any of it for one second. You won’t either, you’ll see.

Here’s to this being your best year yet! I hope all your dreams come true in 2012.

xo Keri

 

 

First Flight I’ve Ever Missed

It was an 8 hour mistake.

Wasn’t totally my fault, although it was my flight so really, who else’s fault could it be?

Regardless, here’s exactly how I felt about it for 3 minutes.

You’d have not wanted to be around me during those minutes.  Then I was over it.

What else are you going to do?

Get to know Concourse E, that’s what!!

When I left for this trip I should have started an “Airports” category, it would have so many posts already.

I will make one now….. tada! Now I have a new blog category, Airports.

Then I perused every single gadget store I could find.

I man-handle every single item.

I projected KeriBlog videos on the wall.

Then I sat around and it was boring and fine, the plane drove me home, the end.

 

Sneak Peak at ‘Keri on Security’

This is the one guys, I cracked it… the subject and the format, the passion I have for this subject, the timing, and and and.

I am SO excited.

Screen shots from the intro.

Screen shots from the ‘DEF CON 19 Interview Series’ videos.

Video topics, things you’ll be learning to do.

It’s a big topic I’ve chosen, online security… tweeted this yesterday:

Good thing I like a challenge, game on.

I’ll keep you posted, going back to editing the intro now.

 

 

You NEED to Care About SOPA and PIPA

Very very basically:

Hollywood started all this.  They were all “waaaah, our movies are being pirated around the world and we want that to stop because we are greedy d-bags“.

So they complained to Congress, who drew up the two bills:

     SOPA – Stop Online Piracy Act

     PIPA – Protect IP Act.

If these bills pass, they will make our internet

like China’s – extremely censored.

CNET called SOPA, “an Internet death penatly”.

Watch this animated .gif from The Oatmeal, it explains it beautifully:

 

 

 

What about the smaller sites we all use to post photos, keep documents… what if they are wrongly accused and removed?  Goodbye to all your photos and digital life, and no, you’ll never ever get them back.

I predicted this last year, fast forward to 0:37.

We can’t vote in Canada on this, we’re counting

on you big time, American friends!

 January 24 – please vote.

Further Reading

Gizmodo

F.A.T

SOPAStrike.com