Alex Reid

On February 13, 2007, Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller sued a Miami foreign-credential evaluation firm for vandalizing a wikipedia article entry about himself. The IP address used was tracked back to the firm.

The lawsuit alleges that in December 2006, a computer at that firm edited the article entry about him, suggesting he had committed acts of alcohol, drug, and domestic abuse.

I’m finding that the morning is the time I get the most pain with my bruised ribs.

So, this morning, after waking up to a leak in the roof a couple hours before I had to get up, I decided to take an ‘Extra Strength Advil’ and go back to sleep, so that when I did wake up, I’d be numbed of pain. And it worked. I woke up for the first time without much pain. There was still pain, but not as much and it was refreshingly different.

So refreshing, I went outside for the most in the last five days.

It was nice to wake up without pain, even if it was artificial.

Brilliant!

Domain registrar RegisterFly has been warned it will lose its accreditation if it fails to remedy serious operational problems in the next 15 days.

More information has come forward about how RegisterFly got into this situation. RegisterFly’s parent company Unified Names filed a lawsuit blaming the debacle on misuse of company funds by president and CEO Kevin Medina, who was fired by the company’s board. The suit alleges that Medina used company funds on liposuction surgery and escort services.

While RegisterFly is an ICANN-accredited registrar, it has registered the majority of its domains as a reseller for eNom. ICANN told eNom that RegisterFly had altered customers’ WHOIS contact data, substituting it with “intentionally inaccurate data,” and that this action constituted a potential breach of eNom’s own accreditation agreement.

I began watching the BBC series of Life on Mars last night and it’s quite good. It’s about a cop named Sam Tyler from 2006 who gets into a car accident and wakes up in 1973.

To explain where he came from, he falls into his own profile (though it’s not initially explained where and when that version of himself was from). He’s another Sam Tyler who has (on the day of Tyler taking this 1973 profile) been transferred from one police department to another in Manchester (where in 2006, he actually works).

At the 1973 office, Tyler is not the Chief he is/was in 2006, but to to be a sidekick of sorts to the 1973 bully Chief, and in this, you see a ‘bad cop/good cop’ partnership grow since racism, sexism, police brutality and corruption are commonplace in the 1973 man’s world, and it is anything but in the 2006 world. The 1973 police force are absolute 1970 pigs, while the 2006 Tyler appears to be more sensitive.

Because Tyler has found himself in 1973 coming to the place where he works in 2006, he sees the real past of his future crime cases. In fact, the first episode is about catching a serial killer he was trying to catch in 2006. And of course, going back in time to the place where you are from is bound to introduce you to your family in the past, if not yourself.

From time to time, he hears voices from his television seemingly from his loved ones watching over his comatose body in a 2006 hospital. It’s unclear whether he really has traveled back in time, or he’s in a coma in 2006 and imagining these experiences or if he’s just mentally ill.

I find this interesting. There are some holes in the timeline theory, but at the same time, like the 4400 seemed at first, it was a bit of mind fuck who was behind the timeline disruption – aliens, god or people from the future. What I especially like about this series, outside the existential question of ‘where am I’, the skilled direction of shots and the shot filters, and the fact that the lead looks dead-on for an old friend, is that this concept series contrasts how much policing has changed from the days of Starsky and Hutch to today’s CSI.

When I first heard of this show, I immediately thought of Eureka which turned out to be a disappointment. I was pleasantly surprised by this show. It’s made by the same production company, Kudos, that brought us Spooks.

The title Life on Mars is from the David Bowie song of the same name, that plays on Tyler’s iPod in 2006 and still on the 8-track in 1973 when he regains consciousness. The musical score delivered throughout this series is quite delicious. The music and the slick video style (ala Spooks) is what saves this show from being like Sliders.

Showcase began including this show in its schedule last November. Second two begins on Showcase on February 28, 2007. It’s pure science fiction meets police drama.