Facecömic

34. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: SoMe incomes

2012-02-24T19:17:00.001+02:00

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Welcome to my Facecömic system! Please register: I want to know:

your full name
your date of birth
your exact address plus all of your current locations (home, work, free time etc.)

I will sell your information to Google and to Facebook and to all other Social Medias.

All of these Social Medias will make even more money by re-selling targeted advertisement to their customers.

Actually this Facecömic system is a bluff made by me, so that I could make more money.

Please register today to make me rich!

33. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Cleaning is unnecessary

2012-02-17T19:33:00.000+02:00

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Cleaning is unnecessary, because:

1. If there is dirt on your car, the paintwork under it is safe.

2. When you do cleaning, you start easily sweat.

Sweating people are not "clean".

3. When you clean, all the dirt gets into the vacuum cleaner's dirtpack.

When you empty it you'll get dirt all over.

This does not help you to keep you environment clean.

4. Think about all the famous last words.

Have you ever heard that someone said: "I wish I had cleaned more in my life!"

31. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Drowning by Numbers

2012-02-01T19:40:00.000+02:00

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I went all my Facecömic strips through and I noticed that I have missed SoMe numbering.

The original aim was to draw 52 Facecömic strips and stop.

Same thing happened to me when I started to play drums: the original idea was to understand how Rush songs were made and stop.

Still playing after 27 years.

I do bookkeeping for my companies, so missing numbers worries me.

You are not supposed to loose numbers in professional bookkeeping.

But it looks like I do.

I think this must be because of too much stress in my life.

Almost every thing can be fixed, except people.

So I just draw and number the ones I have missed.

30. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Netti-ilta #a2ilta

2012-01-20T19:29:00.000+02:00

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Finnish television YLE TV2 arranged on the 29th of March 2011 "Netti-ilta" ("Internet Evening"). 18 people were invited.

This evening was sort of Twitter breakthrough in Finland. About 3000 Twitter messages called "tweets", which could be found in Twitter using hashtag #a2ilta , were sent from Finnish Twitter users.

The conversation was mostly about Facebook, forgetting orher Social Medias, but it was amazing how Twitter users commented the program so well, that you could turn off TV and follow the show from Twitter.

Mobile devices were banned on studio, but the evening showed the real power of Social Media.

28. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Social Media spammers

2012-01-04T17:20:00.001+02:00

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I have SoMe friends, who publish exactly the same content to different Social Medias at the same time.

This really annoys me if I read their content using one media, I really wouldn't like to read the same content again.

And again

And again.

And again.

I publish regularly content to 3-4 Social Medias, but the content is different for each media, and the publishing time varies.

Facebook is for free-time activities.

Twitter is for collective opinions.

LinkedIn is for work life.

Myspace is for music.

Are you a Social Media spammer?

If so, please publish only one content to one Socual Media at a time, or I will...

50. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: SoMe Christmas Things

2011-12-23T07:53:00.000+02:00

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SoMe things you might run into at Christmas:

Christmas Tree.

Christmas Gnome.

Christmas Reindeer (tastes good with lingonbarry jam).

Christmas Goblin - rarely seen.

27. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: meets ZZ Top part 2

2011-12-09T19:35:00.001+02:00

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Many things passed my mind seeing ZZ Top waiting for our band to start playing.

ZZ Top got disturbed by several people.

They went runnin' as fast as they could.

They jumped to their Rolls-Royce and drove away just when we started to play our music.

"All These Years You Have Wondered What The Hell This All Was About" Tour:

"Hey, there's an unsigned Finnish band playing their own progressive music in Helsinki tomorrow."
"Let's fly there to see them. I will rent a car."
"Yeah. We can ask them if they would be interested of being out warm-up band and getting a record deal!"

26. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: meets ZZ Top part 1

2011-12-02T20:26:00.001+02:00

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This is a true story: my most confusing music experience was when me and my band were ready to perform in "Espan lava", which is the stage on Helsinki city center, "Esplanadi park".

I saw Rolls Royce stopping near stage.

"Tres Hombres" came out.

I saw ZZ Top walking beside of our stage, going to restaurant Kappeli terrace, ordering beer and waiting for our band to begin.

To be continued...

25. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Google Street View

2011-11-25T19:29:00.001+02:00

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Last time Google seriously pissed me off was their "Google Street View" camera operation.

They took pictures of my house and published them to public Internet without asking my permission first.

I had to contact to Google personally and demand them to take all of my pictures away one by one. This took them almost three weeks. What a nice planning tool for burglar!

Google argued that their 360 degree camera took pictures of public places anyone can enter. Their camera is at 2,5 meters high. I don't have any friends that long, do you?

I think that if someone takes a picture of my property, he or she would have to ask my permission to publish it in public. Google didn't, and I'm afraid that other companies will follow.

24. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Childhood's End?

2011-11-19T13:26:00.001+02:00

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Actually my childhood was quite normal: both of my parents were working, so I spent a lot of time out after school with my friends.

My mother bought me my first computer yeat 1980. It had 1424 bytes of memory and a Basic programming language. I started to learn the programming.

I made first calls using a phone and a modem year 1984 and I joined Internet 1985. Next year 1996 I started to run a Bulletin Board System (BBS) from my home with a PC and a single phone line.

I built my first Internet WWW home pages 1995.

It looks like I have been ahead all my life.

Nowadays there comes so much information, that I am getting behind.

58. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Unthink

2011-11-08T19:04:00.001+02:00

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Unthink is a new Social Media marketing itself as "Anti-Facebook".

They say that they will let the users to decide how the system should work. Users can choose which company can "sponsor" them and feed advertisement.

You can also pay USD 2 and get rid of ads.

Unthink is extremely hard to take to use. Luckily all the Privacy Settings are set to "private" by default, which is better than Facebook does.

Facebook normally sets all of your new privacy settings to "public" by default.

Unthink main window is confusing. There is "iBelieve" window with 21 different slogans on the left. There is "Lifestyle Tree" window on the right.

I have no slightest idea of what these are about.

Unthink says that it will challenge Facebook.

Better work hard, because Facebook has only 800 million users more than Unthink.

23. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: When we were young

2011-11-05T20:04:00.001+02:00

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When I was born, I needed a pacifier. I got one hammered from steel. It felt cold on winters.

When I was three, I asked my father for some toys. He took me to forest, gave me a knife, showed the trees and said: "There you have toys". I did.

When I was seven, I had to ski to school all year. I hit the wolves using ski poles.

I think that life for kids today is easier than it was for us without mobile telephone, computers and Internet, but we had imagination, and still do!

22. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Machine language translations

2011-10-20T20:49:00.001+03:00

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"Machine language translations" really piss me off. I can't understand why big companies don't really have someone in Finland, who could speak Finnish and do the translation to different manuals.

Finnish is one of the most difficult languages in the worlds. For instance the word "talo" ("house" in English) can have 14 or 15 different cases. When my mother was young there was also "prolatiivi". So 15 or 16 different cases then. Finnish is getting easier!

I bought a lawn mover. There came both Finnish and English manuals. I didn't understand a word of the Finnish version, but the English version made sense. The grass is not growing anymore.

I bought also a coffee mill. There came only Finnish manual saying for instance "Beware of maximum quantity exceed max. sign"! WTF? Also "The container should be put on the machine" - I'd rather put it in. But she cooks good coffee.

21. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Some SoMe friends

2011-10-07T17:47:00.001+03:00

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My social network friend Speedy is a chihuahua from Kerava, Finland, but she just got Green Card and lives in U.S.A. She likes to play all day and she hates cats.

Lea is a traffic sign warning for high speed and cameras. Lea is also a Unix guru and interested of middle ages.

Aapo is a tattoo living on Lennu's shoulder. Aapo is interested of booze and cracking.

Tommy is a dark corridor. He composes, plays and sings music in progressive band.

20. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Face regocnition

2011-09-30T23:06:00.002+03:00

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Facebook is asking you to tag pictures and identify your contacts.

This can be very dangerous, because someone can forge your identity card and empty your bank account or take a huge loan by your name.

In Facebook you cannot ban your friends of doing this, but you can make a change in your preferences, so that you are the only one who sees these tags of you, and then you can remove them.

In the future your identification information will be even more valuable than today.

Start raising your own value by deleting all of your pictures from Facebook and from public Internet.

It might be harder that you think.

19. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Ilmo and a rival

2011-09-21T20:04:00.005+03:00

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Ilmo started to study law after Finland's civil war ended on May 1918.

He met Aune, who was one of the first women studying law in Finland. Aune had sworn that she wanted to have a career and that she will never get married.

There was also a rival fighting for Aune. She didn't know which one to choose or to choose not. Finally Ilmo won Aune's heart.

They got their law studies ready. They both got fine careers and two children, which of oldest is my father.

18. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Ilmo and Civil War

2011-09-07T20:38:00.003+03:00

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Ilmo was born in year 1900. His father was a teacher, and the family lived in South Helsinki.

Finland's Civil Was started on January 1918.

Ilmo wanted to take part of the war against "Reds", so he went to "Whites" and lied that he was already 18 years old.

Ilmo's uncle heard that Ilmo had left home.

He went to Helsinki city center and he searched Ilmo for hours.

Uncle catched Ilmo just when he was about to jump on the train to Tampere fights and brought him back home.

17. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Emil and Civil War 2 of 2

2011-08-24T18:47:00.002+03:00

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Emil's uncle got a phone call that Emil was arrested.

He dressed in his police uniform, borrowed woman's bicycle and rode 50 kilometeres to Emil's prison.

- I need to transport this dangerous red prisoner.
- Can I see you letter of attorney, please?
- Here it is!

Outside uncle gave Emil an axe and a knife and asked him to live on woods that winter.

Finland's civil was ended on May 1918. More than 30.000 people died.

Emil returned from the woods and he married Olga.

They got seven children, of which two died to diseases as a child.

The youngest one survided: my mother.

16. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Emil and Civil War 1 of 2

2011-08-17T19:59:00.002+03:00

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Finland's Civil War started on January 1918, two months after Emil had escaped from the Russian army.

Finland was divided into two: "Whites" and "Reds".

Emil was at home, when "Reds" came to ask him to war. Emil said: "I won't go to war against my brothers!". They believed him and left him alone.

Later came "Whites" asking the same question. Emil said that the "Reds" had already visited and he's still not interested.

"Whites" took Emil with them and they threw him into prison.

They said that Emil will be shot in the morning.

(Can Emil escape? You can only read this on next week's Facecömic.)

To be continued...

55. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Google+

2011-07-03T18:40:00.002+03:00

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Google released its' new Social Media service called "Google+".

It is a combination of other social medias, like Twitter and Diaspora, but it is most a straight copy of Facebook.

First straight Facebook copy is Google+ "Circles", which is exactly the same as Facebook "Friends", although simpler and more visualized.

Next Facebook copy is Google+ "Stream", which is the exact copy from Facebook "News Feed".

Will Facebook users move their "Friends" to Google+ "Circles"?

Time will tell this.

We all know, that Facebook does not respect your privacy, but Google sells it to those who pay most of it.

54. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: SomeTime2011 Facecömic Work Shop

2011-06-14T18:57:00.002+03:00

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I got invented to #SomeTime2011 #SomeEngine room while riding around with my favourite cow Sarah.

I took immediate fly with my jet to Finland to meet all of you.

Work Shop was full of women.

The trip was successful and I enjoyed it a lot!

53. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: SomeTime2011 first day

2011-06-14T18:54:00.004+03:00

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#SomeTime2011 #SomeStage started the event with Heikki, Otto, Tassu, Tuija, Irmeli and Kurt.

#SomeRespa helped people, giving name badges and guiding.

Our technical crew like Toni helped to set out the technic solutions, like huge video screens and continuous video and Tweet Feed.

The continuous video feed including voice was transmitted to #SomeStudio in forenoon and to Internet for anyone to follow in real time.

47. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Facecömic Work Shop Invitation

2011-06-03T11:43:00.003+03:00

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On the Facecömic number 44 I invited 250 participants to #SomeTime2011, which will be held at Aalto Design Factory, Espoo, Finland on 10-11.6.2011.

They all came and now we have full house!

Now I'm inviting you to my Facecömic Work Shop, which will be held at "Engine Room" on Saturday 11.6.2011 at 11 a.m. and it lasts one hour.

In this workshop you can try the making of your own blog using comics!

All the blogs done in this work shop will be published on my web site http://www.jjazz.com/!

I will offer you pencil and paper and tell you a few tricks.

Have you ever draw a comic? Don't worry, I started it just four months aho and this is already my 47th comic!

29. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Under construction

2011-05-25T08:41:00.004+03:00

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My friend J-P collects and likes to watch DVD movies. He must have hundreds or thousands of them.

Two years ago J-P had a birthday party. I bought to him a cheap bookshelf from Ikea.

J-P was in trouble. There was no room for my present and for his DVD movies.

So he bought some piece of land and built a house. The project Lallinhäntä costed 500.000 euros.

So, now there is enough room.

J-P said, that my bookshelf was the most money taking present that he has ever received.

44. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: SomeTime2011 Invitation

2011-05-19T10:49:00.006+03:00

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You are invited to #SomeTime2011 , which gathers together Social Media active users and opinion leaders.

#SomeTime2011 will be held physically in Aalto Design Factory, Espoo, Finland on 10-11.6.2011.

There is room for the first 250 people.

#SomeTime2011 is open and planned on self-guided basis. 12 physical and virtual meetings are already help by 34 people.

Facebook group SomeTime2011 has now 435 members and counting!

http://sometime.purot.net/ is the WWW home page, so make your registration now!

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Qaiku and other Social Medias we be represented, so send your registration!

Or interact via you favourite SoMe!

On the Facecömic number 47 I'm also inviting you to my Facecömic Work Shop, which will be held at "Engine Room" on Saturday 11.6.2011 at 11 a.m. and it lasts one hour.

Welcome!

15. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Emil and October Revolution

2011-05-18T15:40:00.003+03:00

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Emil was born in Jyväskylä, Finland year 1896.

He did army in St. Petersburg, Russia, like all Finnish men did on those days.

Russian October Revolution in 1917 began and the soldiers were left out of food. Emil and some other Finns decided to escape. They left the barracks, passed the border river by swimming and walked through Karelia

Emil's weight was only 35 kilograms, when he got back home. He was engaged with a Finnish woman called Olga. He went to see her.

Olga was quite shocked of Emil's condition and she was scared, that the Russians would take him away and shoot him as a deserter.

"I don't think so, they have so many problems of their own", said Emil.

It started to rain snow.

It was the evening of the 6th of December 1917. Finland got it's indepencence.

To be continued...

13. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Because you're unique (the 11th of May, 2011)

2011-05-11T12:06:00.001+03:00

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When you register into any Social Media network, you have to give your personal information, like date of birth.

Big thing? Yes, because it is the only information of you, which doesn't change. Everything else can.

Good, now you can be traced later.

The system starts to analyze more data of you that you can even imagine.

Your physical location can be resolved quite accurately from your IP address.

Everything you write as a status updates or comments will be analyzed and used.

If you try to protect your own data don't worry - if even one of your contacts hasn't protected his or her account, the companies can also get all your personal information without having to ask your permission to it.

After this you start to receive "personal advertisement", which feels like somebody's banging you from back.

If you want to avoid this, confuse them by entering "wrong" information of yourself.

Make youself 20-30 years younger or older and get ready for good laughs!

12. Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Facebook vs. Twitter vs. LinkedIn (the 4th of May, 2011)

2011-05-04T15:26:00.001+03:00

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The differences between...

1. Facebook's market value is the greatest of these at the monent. Basic idea is to five "Status Updates" of what you are doing at the moment and receive "Comments" and "Likes" from "friends" you are connected to. Some people play games, which are available.

2. Twitter is focused on "micro communication" with 140 character long messages. Some visionary people are using it to build a better world. Only 5 % of my Facebook friends are using it.

3. LinkedIn is ment for the "old hackers", who have been in telecommunication business more than 20-25 years. It's a worklife oriented channel. I think that all of my friends can be found here, even those who say that they hate Social Medias. It's funny how people always start to connect rapidly when they are about to change job.

Which Social Media is best for you? Hard to say. I think that it's a good idea to join them all and give one evening of your life for each media to solve them out.

Even one of them might change your life forever.

#11 Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Young people and their information in Internet (the 27th of April, 2011)

2011-04-27T22:31:00.002+03:00

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Nowadays some employers have started to check out applicant's Internet seach results. There are now some companies and there will be more checking out your Social Media accounts and everything you have ever published to Internet.

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Have you ever signed a public address for animals' rights? - "You're not welcome to our company doing business with food industry".

Some pictures of you having Saturday Night Fever with your friends? - "Do you do that also on Tuesdays?". Etc.

One way of getting away of the stupid things you have done is to change your family name, for instance getting married - but if you are having previous work history, your former family name can be traced.

No-one can stop us doing stupid things when we are young. It is called growining and learning.
But what really bothers me is that I cannot remove words I have once written to Internet.

And you cannot.

They might surprise you, when you get older.

#8 Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Books, comics and movies are parallel universe (the 30th of March, 2011)

2011-04-21T17:35:00.002+03:00

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Have you ever thought, what heroes and losers in books, comics and movies read and dream about?

I have read quite a lot and I've seen some movies, but this has not been explained and I will reveal this secret now.

They read and dream about us: about our every day life. How hard it is for us, and how we handle our lifes and carry on. We all are heroes for them!

Books, comics and movies are parallel universe.

As long as they think about is, we will exist.

Some day they will stop this, and we will all disappear.

#32 Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: SoMe Easter Creatures (the 20th of April, 2011)

2011-04-21T17:25:00.001+03:00

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Some creatures you might run into at easter:

Easter Chicken.

Easter Bunny.

Easter Egg.

Easter Dragon - rarely seen.

#14 Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Jimmy Maltese and Corto Jazz (the 2nd of March, 2011)

2011-04-21T17:23:00.002+03:00

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In the 1970's Finnish comic book "Nonstop" started to publish Corto Maltese.

Me and my friend even wrote a letter to editing office asking them to stop this and publish more Lucky Luke, but Heikki Kaukoranta and Soile Kaukoranta didn't listen to us.

In the 1980's Corto started to bother me in my daydreams. I read one of his adventures, then I read them all, even the ones I didn't read before. I didn't read Lucky Luke anymore. Corto built me a bridge from childhood to younghood.

I went to see Corto Maltese play on Q-Teatteri yesterday. It was really great to see your hero to become flesh and blood on stage. Small, intimate and excellent!

Corto disappeared in Spanish civil was 1936-1939. Corto is a romantic character, so Hugo Pratt could not let him live in "modern days". Still I think that he died too young.

Don't we all do that in every night of our lifes?

#10 Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Internet is the supermassive black hole (the 13th of April, 2011)

2011-04-21T17:21:00.001+03:00

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Everything you do or publish can be found in Internet for everyone, and it cannot be removed. This means that any text, pictures, videos, samples - even printed media scanned - can be leaked. I have personally seen this happen.

I posted to Internet News discussion groups some opinions in the 1980's, which have changed or which I'd like to share only with my closest friends nowadays in real-life discussions.

These are all now public readable for anyone, and I cannot remove these.

Seach engine companies like Google and Social Media companies like Facebook get their incomes by selling targeted advertisement to different customers.

The more they know about you the better business it is for them!

Next time you are to publish anything in any media, consider the content twice - and say good bye to it.

You don't own it anymore, but everybody else does.

#9 Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: sales@ vs. support@ (the 6th of April, 2011)

2011-04-21T17:18:00.001+03:00

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Here is a salesman sales@, who meets the customer, sends the offer, makes the contract, makes sure that the project is done and sends the bill.

He wakes up at six o'clock every morning, starts working at eight and stops around 4-5 p.m.

Here is a coder support@, who doesn't meet the customer, but he codes the project and is supposed to give support to it, because he knows how it works.

He wakes up at noon, starts working at 3-4 p.m. and stops around 1-2 a.m.

Because the customer@ has only met the sales@, and support@ reads their e-mail only on evenings, the customer@ calls at sales@ for support, and sales@ tries to help the customer@.

The whole society would work better, if the customer@ and the sales@ would sleep a few hours more and if the support@ could wake up a few hours earlier.

Then it would be possible to use sales@ for selling and support@ for supporting, and everybody would be happy.

#7 Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Lotto winning is government conspiracy (the 23th of March, 2011)

2011-04-21T17:12:00.003+03:00

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In the first season of the TV-series "Lost" year 2004 character Hurley wins 114 million dollars with "cursed" numbers.

Bulgarian lotto machine gives exactly the same numbers on 6th and on 10th of September 2009, four of them are the same as in "Lost".

Almost 25.000 people use Hurley's row in American Mega Millions Lotto on 6th of January 2011. They get four right and earn 150 dollars each.

Lotto is the government conspiracy, which gives is hope when it's almost gone to wake up every morning to earn money to someone else.

Lotto drawing is actually computer animated to make sure that no-one gets jackpot.

Stop lottery now!

#6 Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: FidoNet messaging vs. Internet e-mail (the 16th of March, 2011)

2011-04-21T17:10:00.001+03:00

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I was on trip from Monday noon to Tuesday morning.

My customer called me Tuesday 10 a.m. and she asked me if I had read her e-mail she had sent to me on Monday afternoon.

When I started to work with PCs on the 1980's, we had world wide net of private computers called FidoNet. It was sort of Internet with Social Media, but anybody having a PC, a modem and a normal voice phoneline could join. There were thousands of private PCs all around the world changing messages.

The system was built to, that:

people phoned to node, hub or host during day time or on evening
nodes phoned to hubs, which phoned to hosts, which phoned to each other and handled international calls.

This was done twice a night, which ment that every message was delivered in every part of the world within one day!

We should get rid on Internet and change back to FidoNet. In that case if my customer writes me an e-mail on Monday afternoon, whe will know that I will get it on Tuesday and I will have time for the whole day to reply on it, and she will get my answer on Wednesdat.

This will help us to get rid of the unneccessary panic and plan things better.

#5 Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Speak to me of summer (the 9th of March, 2011)

2011-04-21T08:24:00.002+03:00

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This time we will discuss about the coldest topic on Finnish summer 2010.

y: It is 25º C in my apartment.
x: Nice that the grass grows.
y: I keep all my Windows open, and it is 30º C in here now!
x: Nice that you don't have to warm the water for the pool.
y: It is over 35º C in here! I am melting. So is the tin on my computer motherboard!
x: Honey, please close the door, it's getting warmer here, and I want to avoid it.

#4 Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Love snow (the 23th of February, 2011)

2011-04-15T10:50:00.004+03:00

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This time we will discuss about the hottest topic in Finnish winters 2009-2011.

x: Snow

y: <3 Snow

x: SNOW!

y: <3 snow <3

x: No more snow! There's no room for it in my backyard, and I cannot find my car!

y: !! <3 <3 show <3 <3 !! outside my flat. But why aren't trains and busses running?

x: You snow lover can stick that loving snow very deep in

Next time: we will discuss about the hottest topic in Finnish summer 2010!

#3 Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Reply vs. Reply all (the 18th of February, 2011)

2011-04-14T09:13:00.001+03:00

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Group e-mails are the world's most best kept secrets. You send an important e-mail to several people working in the same project and Bang! The first one replies only to you.

What is this? Is the first replier in love with you, and wanted to ask you out, but dared not to?

Should you read between the lines?

Company's internal secters?

Encrypted content in some comma?

Government conspirary?

Truth of Area 51?

Of J.F.K. and Marilyn?

This is because people planning e-mail software graphical interface wants this:

When it should look like this:

Now what do you do?

send you "reply-reply to all" of the original receivers and insult the "reply"-replier?
send you "reply" to this "reply"-replier and keep all the original receivers in dark?

We have to wait until mail client software learns to program itself. This takes 100 years, so our grand-grand children will be living in world without secrets.

#2 Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Social Media and friend requests (the 11th of February, 2011)

2011-04-10T13:20:00.016+03:00

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Social Media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn allow you to set up the visibility of most of the information you publish of yourself, but not all.

It is not wise to show most of your personal information to everyone, and you should allow only the people you accept to your personal contacts to see more.

I tried to divide people in two different groups:

personal "friends" are handled through Facebook
people I do ot have done business with are handled through LinkedIn.

This worked well in the beginning, but because my "friends" and "business contacs" are also cross-contacted by themselves, I receive more and more contact reuqests to "wrong" systems, where I want to have a different role.

If I do not accept these contacts and add them to "wrong" system, they might not want to be my "friends" or "business contacts" anymore in the real life.

Of course there are filters in these systems, but they do not always work. The only solution is to publish neutral information to both systems, so no-one gets upset.

This means that I cannot tell my political or religious opinions or discuss of other interesting "I hate" sort of topics in Social Medias.

So Social Medias make the world more positive, as it actually is!

#1 Jimmy J. Jazz - Facecömic: Garf (the 5th of February, 2011)

2011-04-09T08:58:00.011+03:00

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My friend Garf died about one year ago. I knew him from old Social Networks like Vaxi and Clinet since 1980's. He was also running his own bulletin board system from his home using a PC, modem and phone line, as I did.

Garf was really nice and friendly. He loved good food. He was the first of our own, who died. Now there are only 299 of us original Finnish hackers. Who will be next?

We will gather together this evening to remember him, and this is ment to be annual meeting.

Only six are attending. Shouldn't we try to meet each others more as long as we are still alive?

What really bothers me is that Garf's Social Media accounts are still alive, and they keep asking me if I would like to reconnect to him. So if you like to live forever, do it on the Internet!