Testing the N93’s camera. Still no good with low light.

Dump Your Pen Friend, originally uploaded by sesh00.

Slashdot has an entry about a lawsuit filed this week by parents of a Texas minor whose photograph was used by Virgin Australia in an advertising campaign. The photograph was taken by an adult. He posted it to Flickr under a CC-Attribution license. The parents of the minor are complaining that Virgin violated their daughter’s right to privacy (by using a photograph of her for commercial purposes without her or her parents permission).

This is the original photo they grabbed from Flickr:

Creative Commons refers only to copyright. Even if the image uses a Creative Commons license, it DOESN’T mean that you can do anything you want with it. I wouldn’t really want to see one of my pictures on a billboard while walking down street.

Virgin, maybe next time you will dare to make a phone call before doing this ? It would be so easy to contact the photographer through Flickr. Maybe they though “Ahh… we are in Australia, no one will notice if we use this pic…”.
But the thing is that the photo was under a CC Share Alike license so anyone would use the photo, even commercially, provided they credited the author.

Finally the Dell XPS has arrived!

After having some issues with the delivery date and getting angry on the phone, publishing in this blog and almost cancelling my order it’s finally here!

This days I’ve been looking for a short 4 / 5 letters cool name to launch a new website. Till now has been a very difficult mission as most names I like are already taken.

I got a surprise when with one of my domain providers I got this domain suggestions :

• bq–3bhau3lxlybffm2svckke65bkobaalmu6zwlg4smssrhxii.com
• bq–3bka24smssrhwfa.com

With a suggestion tool like that better make no suggestions!

Now, I found a list for domain suggestion tools that is really great. I copy just part of it with the purpouse of translating it, for the complete list please check “Best of domain name search tools“:

• Bust A Name lets you mash up a series of words and shows you a set of available domains. In case you don’t know how to use web forms, Ryan has made a video nice little video demo for you.
• Domain Scrub looks for typos and misspelled domain names. Most of the time these domains are baits for bad typers. Smart companies buy out all the typos in their name before anyone else does.
• Domain hacks lets you find a domain that combines domain labels, especially the top-level domain (TLD), to spell out the full “name” or title of the domain, making a kind of pun, for example del.icio.us
• MakeWords.com has advanced query features that allow you to refine your domain query for starting with, ending with, max letters, language rules random names and more.
• Just Dropped is a domain search of recently dropped domain names, good for recycling/salvaging old domain names.
• Psychic Whois, Instant Domain Search and PC Names. don’t suggest anything, but do give you instant availability for domain names as you type.
• Domaint Tools offers a great suggestion tool for finding the right domain name, and also has a keyword based search tool with lots of options to narrow down your results.