These are links to my various online selling locations:

Craigslist
Amazon
Ebay
Kijiji
Backpages

2010 is upon us, and unlike the Arthur C. Clarke sequel to 2001, wherein the world is exploring space, in the real 2010, the world is trying to find a goddamn job and avoid a huge, double-dip recession and rapid price deflation.

For around a year, my FON hotspot was turned off, due to lack of appropriate permissions to tap into my local sources of broadband. Now, it's back, and in the South Central / USC area.

This is fascinating. The image of the San Diego highway sign has become a symbol for the defense of immigrants. from Istanbul IMC:

Using fight against illegal migration as a pretext, Turkish government carries out policies based on repression and deprivation of liberty toward refugees and migrants.

Locked in the so called Yabancılar Misafirhanesi, migrants can be held for more than one year in inhumane conditions waiting for their expulsion of Turkey.

On the 20th of September, prisoners of Kumkapı Misafir Hanesi rebelled themselves against their detention conditions and the mistreatments they suffer from the police. We have to be in the front of Kumkapı Yabancı Misafir Hanesi to show the detainees solidarity and to give them support in their struggle against the deprivation of their basic rights.

We call for the closure of these shameful detention places. We call for the end of repression, detention and deportation of migrants.

Click to visit Istanbul IMC

A couple mobile phone business and development links. One came from TechRepublic, speculating about who might buy (the newly revived) Palm.

Podcast: Will the $99 smartphone trigger a price war? [Guess not. It seems to be a price war at the $199 price point.]

Correcting BREW and J2ME - a 2008 article that gives background about the competing BREW and J2ME markets, and the then-emergent iPhone business model.

Links to misc app stores (mobile or not): Linspire CNR, GetJar, Boost Mobile, ATT MediaMall, Sprint Software Store, Handmark, Ovi (Nokia), Android Market, T-Mobile T-Zones, Motorola Solutions.

A bunch of development links after the jump.

eMachines sells a computer, the EL1300G, that doesn't come with a restore disk; neither does it have a restore partition.

Back in the past, all computers came with either no operating system, or disc(s) for the operating system. Eventually, this evolved into the "restore disc" which was produced by the manufacturer, and contained not only the operating system, but bundled applications.

The web is setting new standards for severely underpaying writers. This blog is a great example: I don't get paid anything at all. There are a number of websites aggressively developing systems that help writers earn as little as 1 cent per word all the way up to 5 cents a word.

I was at Food 4 Less (or was it El Super), watching people bag their own groceries. What would it cost if someone was there to bag them, I wondered?

Credit card late payment fees suck. They suck out $25 to $35 from your wallet every time you forget to mail in the payment. Here's how to avoid the fees. Also, if you're in debt, this will help you get out of debt and start saving!

This is a website for unemployed people to support each other and find the public resources to get through your own downturn: Unemployment Lifeline

Here are three interrelated Wikipedia articles that gave me something to think about.

Guilds

This post from 2007 is funny. Ummm...