A lack of sleep

So what do you call getting less than two hours worth of sleep and then trying to get work done?

…A waste of time

Another late night has come and gone leaving me up to my elbows in sleep debt.  Yes debt, it kinda works like that because not getting enough sleep over a period of time catches up with you and will slowly wear at you until you have no choice but to make time to sleep.  Your brain starts to micro-sleep where you drift into and out of unconciousness for mere seconds.  Quite devestating if your driving down a busy freeway and somehow don’t see that idiot pulling out in front of you.  Anyways, long story short I never get enough sleep. (usually around 5 hours per night)

Underdog

Is it just me or does the internet crowd always seem to favor the little guy, the so called underdog.  You see it a lot in politics with Ron Paul or even Obama.  On a side note, recently Obama has seen a lot more online hate than before which I blame largely on his success and the ever closing gap between him and the presidency.

Many groups that have a hard time finding ears to listen to what they have to say and turn to the easily swayed masses on internet to raise their banners and shout their slogans.  Social news media really seems tilted towards these groups because it is reliant upon user submitted content.  Can’t say I really hate it, when I use it to my advantage to push my opinion down all of your collective throats.

Sir, Please get the hell out of my internet!

That’s right, I’ve had enough of people, particularly politicians trying to tell me what I can and cannot do on the internet.I see the internet like an international territory that should not be policed like anyone owns it.  Why can’t I download that

mp3 or movie file?  Why should you be peeking in my packets?  I sure hope you can see my digital shotgun pointed in your proverbial face because I’m not too keen on what I see happening on the political front this year.  No I don’t like your bandwidth throttling, that can go too.  Oh and did you ever hear about net neutrality, well its what us the people who use the internet are demanding and just don’t think we will let you run us over with your digital tanks because this is not communist China and we will fight for what is ours.

If everything continues downhill and the Corporations take over and find a way to stop us from torrenting and using P2P technologies what do they think will happen?  I’ll tell you what will happen, I’ll purchase the same amount of CD’s DVD’s and games that I always have.  Maybe even less of them than before.  Perhaps I’ll buy one game and copy it for my friends; just try stopping physical peer to peer.  Where there is a need it will be filled, where there is desire there will be achomplishment.   You can put cameras on our streets and inspect my packets all day long but I will continue to do what I please and I won’t be bullied by corporate bodies and the governments they control.

Here is to a free internet, long live the beautiful anarchy of it all.

Its been a while… What am I up to

Life has been incredibly busy recently, with evening class, one full time and one part time job, and all my many websites that I manage and design.

Some of my current in my free time projects include:

J9.ca - A customized website for storing/sharing/promoting music for a sound engineer friend of mine.

Conerous.com - Its a personal venture of mine that I have barely started, intending to make it into a sort of code sharing and developement site aimed towards web programmers and designers.

Currently rebuilding all, yes ALL of my computers.  Its a pretty massive project to undertake with the goal of improving my current server/gaming/OnTheGo computer systems.  Moving entirely to Vista this time, running Business 32bit, Business 64bit, Ultimate 64bit and for the computer I’m giving to my parents I only loaded Home Premium 32bit.  All computers are now >= 2gbof ram and have dual core processors.  The hardware upgrade of things includes a couple new hard drives and another 4gb of ram for my primary gaming system.  In the process of switching over to running my O/S off a shiny new Samsung Spinpoint F1 Terrabyte (1TB)  sata II hard drive.  Also installed a 75ogb drive for my server, same make as the 1TB drive just smaller.  The 1TB drive gets >100MB/s and the 750gb gets around 80MB/s.  Puting my three 500gb drives into a RAID 50 array for stiped redundancy.  I just want some reduntant storage for my website stuff because I might cry if I lost all those hours of work in dreamweaver and photoshop.  The trick here is getting all my data off these 3 completely full drives :S  working on that, its just taking a while because at the same time I’m attempting to sort out the crap I don’t need.

Anyways its time for me to get back to work…

Lack of Commmunication

The modern form of communication is politics. When we realise that one person can better represent our opinions and beliefs leaders are formed. Those of us who oppose the concept of leadership simply lack faith in their fellow man in a world where we are surrounded by incompitence and lazy self centered thinking. No wonder voter apathy is so strong in our modern democracies. We don’t believe in our ability to function as a unit. Similar in faithless marriages we have divorced ourselves from the once functional democracy by letting it become corrupted.

Christmas

Working in a retail store around christmas can be quite frustrating, even more so when you have your boss countinously reminding you of those ever rising numbers and targets that you and everyone else will undoubtedly fall short of.  I still enjoy my job for some of the simple reasons like that I’m working with people who I consider friends.  Not nessisarily the seasonal ones who’s names I will forget soon after the Christmas rush comes and goes, but more so the people that I’ve worked along side with for the year that I’ve been there.

Speaking of work I must run off now or I’ll be late.

The Switch

Okay as a website designer heres one thing to never do, have hosting with different accounts from multiple hosting companies.  I just switched over four of my domains to a new Dreamhost account and it was so easy.  Now I can manage them all from a single control panel and only one user name and password to remember.  And seriously I was getting a cheaper price on some of the hosts I used but they definately don’t offer the massive features that come with a Dreamhost plan.  I didn’t even have SQL before which totally changes my options in the future.  So far my websites seem just as responsive and able to handle just like they did before.  I’ve heard some complaints against Dreamhost but I definately have a good feeling about this so far.