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Ah, back to posting. I think I got some stuff to talk about today. First off, yesterday was payday. Not usually a noteworthy event, but this month I had my eyeballs on a few new books. I stomped over to Taipei’s largest English computer book store and ended up getting 3.

I’ll just briefly talk about one of the three today “Setting up LAMP”. This book basically walks a person through setting up a Linux machine to work with Apache (software the powers websites), MySQL (database software) and PHP (like HTML but does cool things). I’m about 60% through the book and so far it gets two big thumbs up.

The more I use Linux the more I want to make “the switch”. I anticipate a “full” switch over in about 3-4 months. By “full” I mean the PC I use day to day will be a Linux machine and my Windows machine will be for doing… Maybe nothing .

Now on to my reactions to that article from a few days ago.

Computers, technology (little earthquake just now, why couldn’t my computer tell this was coming ). Well here comes the random thoughts. First off, conscienceless. What is it? How is it measured? Maybe there’s an answer and I just don’t know about it, but I have a feeling that computers/technology/machinery have already reached a level of consciousness that most people aren’t aware of. It’s real easy to think to yourself “I’m in control, I can turn this thing off if I want to” and it’s true, but on a global level I don’t see technology as being a switch that can just be flipped off anymore.

It’s also something that’s growing exponentially. I guess I’d compare technology to plants. It’s like a new species or something. The way it is now we depend on technology as much as it depends on us. I can’t see us (people) going back to the times of not depending on machines (technology), but I can see a time when machines are not so dependent on us.

I’m not saying I think there’s going to be a war like in Terminator, or us being raised like in the Matrix, but I think anyone can imagine maybe a farm that can run 99.9% independent of people. We’re probably not too far away from that. What’s the next step? Raising our pets? Being our pets? Raising our kids?

I’m already sure most people (well, most of my readers ) know how useful technology is for keeping people blind to facts (spreading propaganda, dumbing down the masses, etc.). Look at China (or the US for that matter). Uh… I’m getting tired.

Anyways, technology is really cool, but if not kept in check crazy things can happen (like blowin’ up islands).

OK, off to sleep.

Don’t mind the subject. That’s just writers block.

I was going to comment on that article this post, but I ended up chatting with a guy from http://www.zapx.net/ about hosting and stuff. It was nice to run into someone that was willing to give a hosting newbie so many free tips. Mom, you can blame him for not getting my reaction to the article.

Today I kind of relaxed. Just chilled. You know, a lazy day. I got stuff done, but vegged out in front of the tube for a while (watched a movie about the Attica prison thing: Against the Wall).

I better scurry off to bed now.

Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn’t need us.

Get a coffee, a beer, a hot coco, or what does it for you and take some time to read this. Not mind boggling stuff, but this guy drops names of a lot of cool people and books, and brings hope back into that robotic butt wiper you’ve always dreamed of.

You’ll know if this is the kind of stuff you like after the first page.

Please do read a least the first and top of the second page.

Too lazy to put up the pictures from the weekend so I wasn’t even going to post anything. What happened is someone asked me to substitute for them today so I did, I had something to do after that (a visit with the Chinese Medicine Doctor) and came home. After checking my mail and doing my postings, I’m all tuckered out.

Well, I wanted to do something today and I thought of something I could get done real quick before bedtime.

I had been eyeballing a new domain, but I wasn’t ready to purchased it yet. My success with Mepis (along some some other people’s success) has prompted me to go for it. I got demicrosoft.org. What I’ll do there is try to get links and info for making the switch from Windows to Linux. Switching isn’t for everyone, but I’d like to help those that want to (even though I need tons of it still). I think it’s something good for me to start now because I’m pretty new to Linux (very new actually) and I’ll try to take good notes. People who’ve been using it for a long time probably have forgotten what it feels like to not know anything.

We’ll see if I ever take that one anywhere.

I should get some pics up tomorrow.

Later

Since I plan on trying really hard to be off the computer by 10:30 I’m going to do a quick up-date post. B-Balled yesterday and game clubbed today. Nothing noteworthy comes to mind.

This morning I talked to mom about getting a website put together to help get a community organization she’s working on together. That might be cool.

I have 2 characters at Tekken Lord now (pay no mind if you don’t know what that means). That’s enough.

Pat me on the back for getting off the computer early.