Tweaked for your Pleasure

I am sure that everyone has seen Toy Story and has always thought, I wonder …

Well, there is now undeniable proof that they do indeed go around and do what they want. They do indeed have their own life. The proof ?

These photos that someone took is proof alone. I am sorry about the order they are in, but I really couldn’t be asked sorting it into the correct order. Read the rest of this entry »

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An actual post is coming next week

If history has taught the human race anything, it is this. It is that freedom is never free and that freedom needs to be fought for. In the United Kingdom and even the United States, I bet it is easy for us to say – “Ya, we are free. We can do what we want and say what we want”. And yes, we can and the key part is “we can”. We are more then happy to say we have freedom of speech and most says it because they have never had to fight for it. It tomorrow, the United Kingdom became the Islamic Republic of the United Kingdom, would people still then say what they want and what they truly feel ?

Again, back to history. Very likely. The United Kingdom (Well, the countries that makes it) have never given up to anyone and fought for all long as they can. The Romans and Germany to be two good examples. We can say the same about the United States. However, not everyone is able to do what we can. I am more then sure you have heard about what is happening with Iran.

The Iranians are being told it is completely fair. Well, I won’t get into too much but I think that is complete bullshit. If it was fair, then why are people saying differently ?

Then, it goes two ways. Either the Iranian people can “accept” it was fair or even “accept” there won’t be a change or they can fight to be free. We all can see what is going to happen and once again Iran will be going civil war. Now, this wouldn’t have been possible (or a little anyway) if it wasn’t for the Internet. The Internet is a wonderful network that allows the sending of information. Tweaked for your Pleasure, for example, uses the Internet so that I can say what I wish. However the nature of the design for how the modern Internet works (in terms of DNS etc) allows it to be filtered. While there are many ways around it (such as a VPN, Hotspot Shield, proxies etc) most people does not understand how to do it.

Hopefully one day, Iran will have the freedom it wants and maybe then, they will stand up to the international table, speak with Israel and accept them and say to the world – we want change and want to live with you all in peace.

But remember that we can do all this only because of the freedom that we have. Freedom is never free and comes at a price which are:

• Freedom comes with rules.
• Freedom comes with laws.
• Freedom comes with responsibilities.
• Freedom comes with accountability.
• Freedom comes with blood, sweat and tears.
• Finally, then freedom is threaten – It often comes with death to get it back.

That is the price of freedom and it is a price I will pay with no debt should it be needed. It seems Iranians will be doing the same and Israelites has been doing it for as long as history remembers. The patriots of the United States as and so as patriots of the United Kingdom. So does a child when he or she reads a book, talks and plays.

But, if the time ever comes. Will you ?

I would like to also add something else. I am thankful for the soldiers that not only fights for our freedom and is also fighting for other’s freedom as well, even as I type this. I salute them, their comrades and the fallen and you will never been forgiven for what you have fought for. This isn’t a question of right or wrong, so please do not start commenting about that.

In the world today, we see many things around us that appear to be brand new when most of the time they are from the past. Has the intelligence for brand new ideas died or is it because we as human beings prefer things we are familiar with rather than new concepts?

Firstly, let’s look at videogames. It has just been announced at the E3 show that Nintendo are bringing out Super Mario Bros Wii, a “new Mario scroller game for the home console which we haven’t seen for 15 years”. But, this game basically takes the original Mario concepts from Mario Bros 1, 2, 3 and World and has spruced it up with 3D elements and jazzy Wii features. Okay, the levels are brand new and I’m looking forward to the game, but it is a prime example of sticking to original ideas rather than new ones.

The film and music industry is the biggest culprit. If it’s not a brit pop band covering yet another Abba title or Rock band producing a tribute to Black Sabbath, it’s a producing company making another sequel to a tired franchise. The new film Terminator Salvation, the 4th of the Terminator film series, is out this summer and is said to take on a new approach to the franchise. At the end of the day, it is still Terminator and will be the 4th movie. I hear that a new Beverly Hills Cop is coming out in a few years time starting Eddie Murphy. My god that franchise was excellent back in the 80’s and early 90’s but can it still live up to that? It won’t do if what I hear about the script is true. Again, another old idea.

Fashion is another example. Let’s look at something really stupid. Electrical equipment was classy in black, then the 21st century came and the fashion was silver. Now “black is back” is what most say. LCD TVs, most are black. It’s not just fashion, but generation habits and hobbies as well.

What do you think on the matter? Have any really good examples that either worked or you couldn’t stand? Tell!

Finally, Tweaked for your Pleasure is now also in hebrew. The Israeli Internet Association has approved the domain snat.co.il and you can now use that domain to be able to access Tweaked for your Pleasure (מוברג שלך תענוג) to be able to access this website in the Hebrew language.

All posts are now slowly being translated into Hebrew however all new posts will have a hebrew translation of the post within 24-48 hours. This now leave a nother question to be decided what to happen to the other domain snat.co.cc.

At this time, this domain is going to be used as a placeholder for any other languages that may be added. For example, snat.co.cc will be used for any other languages such as ie.snat.co.cc for the Irish language, fr.snat.co.cc for the French language. However, those languages will not be translated by myself but will be translated by the community and for this reason they will not have their own domain (just a subdomain) and naturally will not be supported by me.

I am really looking forward to seeing Tweaked for your Pleasure in becoming a website in which anyone in the world will be able to read in this website in any language  (I would love to see this website in Egyptian or any other ancient language that has a language code).

So, if you are looking to help translate the website to another language, please do contact me via the contact form.

This was a question I kept asking myself  and couldn’t work out how to do it. qTranslate (WordPress plugin) would only allow you to use subdomains for the different languages (such as en.domain or he.domain) or using paths (such as domain/en/ or domain/he/). For a while, I used the path for the different languages on Tweaked for your Pleasure however subdomains or the path sadly wasn’t enough for me.

I wanted to be able to use two different domains for the two langauges. The main reason I wanted to do it is because I had the domains and I didn’t want to use subdomains. So, I wanted to see if anyone knew how to use different domains. On qTranslate forums there wasn’t any answers so I decided to have a look myself.

Now, I did work out a way to do it (and you can see it on this blog yourself) however my method works with hardcoding the domains into WordPress Config. I have  changed this so that it does it all directly from the plugin so that you just type the domain you want into WP-Admin and which langauge to use however this change of plugin hasn’t been released to the public. However, I will share my wp-config edits that I used. This will allow you to use different domains for each language.

First, make sure to setup each language in qTranslate and that you know each language code (in my example, en is English and he is Hebrew). Below is my wp-config file. Just change for each domain you use and with the language you use. My code below has some parts missing from the wp-config due to security reasons (the last thing I want is to post my auth_key publicly ).