Matt’s Cuppa

Wikileaks Censored Tibet protest videos March 2008, AVI video encoding

WikiLeaks has put together a (large) collection of video footage relating to the protests in Tibet. Some of this footage is of the actual protests and some are interviews with interested persons, including H.H. The Dalai Lama.

In support of an international investigation and because the WikiLeaks servers were receiving so many hits, I posted all of these videos on one of my sites. I will also be uploading the zip archive of all videos and a html index page. If you have five minutes right now, please watch one of the videos and tell someone about it. If you have space, please download any of the videos or the archive and host them on your site. Then tell someone about it.

The Olympic Games are, from their very inception, a celebration of peace. How can we prepare for peace by unleashing violence on our closest neighbors?

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Bad Google! I have too much work to do for Google Docs to be down!

Bad Google!

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If I wasn’t before, I’m certainly and Utterz.com fanboy now! I’ve been using Utterz to create mobile blog posts for some time now. Those posts are the ones tagged ‘Utterz’. Utterz has some real cool stuff going on. You can mash-up your voice with a number of other social applications, use it to leave voice reminders to yourself, or create full multimedia blog posts from anywhere using your camera-enabled mobile phone. Not to mention the lively social community where you can hear people respond in their own voice.

In addition to being impressed by the shiny new features that they keep rolling out, I am also pleasantly surprised at the way they respond to their users. On more than one occasion I’ve sent emails to their support address and I’ve received a timely response from an actual human each time. Well, except once.

I had sent a question in some time ago about a possible bug. Soon after that, the issue no longer occurred. And I forgot about the message I’d sent. (Not surprisingly, since I was no longer experiencing the same issue). I figured they’d done an update which took care of things.

Weeks later I received an email response prefaced by an apology for not responding sooner. I was even offered a free Utterz t-shirt! Not that I was all that miffed about not getting a timely response, but in the end, I provided my address because I just couldn’t pass up a t-shirt with large friendly looking cow in the front!

That was over a week ago, and I’d forgotten about the whole sequence of events (again!). Until I had to pry a big cardboard mailer out of my mailbox last night. Not only did it contain a high quality Utterz shirt featuring Bessie, the Utterz mascot, but also a plush stuffed Bessie, a Bessie keychain, and a number of small notepads on which Bessie makes an appearance.

Having worked on the realm of customer satisfaction in previous lives, I really appreciate the amount of work and the amount of cashflow that went into my care package. I can also tell you that it worked to it’s intended effect. I will now go out into the world and tell anyone who will listen how great Utterz is both as a product and as a company.

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Microsoft: If you can’t buy em, beat em - Download Squad

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You are the potential

in every wish-upon-a-star.

Everyone you ask

tells you, you’ll go far.

I know- You’ll go farther.

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