I going to fast this weekend. I started this morning and I'm going to try to last until Tuesday so four days max, wouldn't want to overdue it. I got some lemon juice to mix with water, I remember reading somewhere that that's what people that fast usually take, both for it's nominal amount of sugar which might help a bit with hunger and because the vitamin C and citric acid clean out your body. I don't have any big activities planned so I shouldn't get too hypoglycemic but I'll go for a walk or ride my bike a few minutes a couple times everyday as I understand it keeps the body from trying to shut down.
Anyone that has actually witnessed the quantities of food I consume will no doubt find all this amusing. I've been told that just one of my meals could feed a family of five.
Friday, December 30, 2005
Betrayed - The Bush vs Gore Election
Although this happened sometime ago I am reminded of it now. I not only voted for Gore in the 2000 election, I actually made a tiny contribution. I am very much a tight wad when it comes to giving money to organizations and charities and for good reason. But I really hated Bush's politics; so when the beautiful woman came to the door, for the first time I couldn't refuse.
But we all know how that election turned out. Florida was in a mess. The election was so close in that state that the normally nominal voting errors and corruption mattered. For the record it is clear that Gore actually and truly won that state but the voting procedures were against him.
A large number of people made voting errors in certain counties because of the ballots used. Pat Buchanan, a right wing extremist also running for President, conceded that a large number of votes (more than enough to undisputedly declare him the Florida winner) he received were obviously meant for Gore based on historical voting results, the liberal nature of the county and the screwy nature of the ballot used. But by and large they focused on questionable ballots and recounting the ballots by hand. The ballots were questionable in the sense of ballot machine error and determining what the votes were, from not thoroughly punched holes and "hanging chads."
The Governor of Florida, the one in charge of the executive branch of the state, was Bush's very own brother and quite naturally his officers were conservative republications that wanted the Governor's brother to win. The woman in charge of declaring the winner of the election made a surprising move to declare Bush the winner when the matter was still before the courts.
The matter went before the Florida State Supreme Court as it should and they ruled the matter unresolved. The court is the ultimate arbiter in the matter of elections. They make decisions as to the law and implement it, when the law isn't clear enough, it's up to them to resolve the matter. The judicial branch decided, the executive branch implements. What they decided and that which I disagree with is that recounting should continue. I didn't know how the recount would go at the time but I felt that it would probably still be so close that the final results would be moot. The writing was on the wall, what they should have done is immediately, especially considering the results of the counties with fishy ballots, was to invalidate the election results and reorder a statewide election to decide the winner of the presidential electors. They could have done this one week after the election when it was clear there were problems but they didn't and instead ordered that the recounts go on. A weak and indecisive decision.
But then the Unites States supreme court got involved, a republican controlled court I might add. They shouldn't have gotten involved because although it was a federal election it was a state matter. And ironically it's the Republicans on the court that are the staunch supporters of State seventy and rights. They strangely decided that state courts shouldn't be involved and that the executive branch of the state had the undisputed right to declare the winner of the election and as history records, Bush was sworn into office. But if the courts shouldn't be involved they why did they get involved? I disagree with their decision. They shouldn't have gotten involved but a better decision that would have resulted in Bush being sworn and the court retaining some credibility was to declare the election undecided and turn it over to the newly elected congress to decide which being Republican controlled would have resulted in the election of Bush. Instead they choose the quickest way to get their man sworn into office.
But Gore was the biggest disappointment of all. If it were as simple as whomever had the greatest number of votes naturally then Gore was the clear winner, more Americans voted for him. But instead we have a point system where points are divided up among the states and it's either a winner takes all situation or points are awarded according to the state rules and election results. And when it comes to intention, Gore did win Florida, but the powers that decided the confusing electoral ballots, the usual political corruption that usually doesn't matter finally did. But what did Gore do, the people choose him, did he in the least fight for us that voted him into office? Did he make a big stink about political corruption or take leadership in creating better voting machines and establishing nominal nationwide elections policies to at least address the problem? Did he trade his acquiescence for getting rid of the electoral process and going to a popular vote? Did he trade his acquiescence for a backroom deal for unofficial backseat powers and lessen Bush's right wing leanings? No he did none of this. He ran away. He betrayed me and the American people and he doesn't deserve to be president of this great nation. Because of him we had 911 and 8 years of Bush.
But we all know how that election turned out. Florida was in a mess. The election was so close in that state that the normally nominal voting errors and corruption mattered. For the record it is clear that Gore actually and truly won that state but the voting procedures were against him.
A large number of people made voting errors in certain counties because of the ballots used. Pat Buchanan, a right wing extremist also running for President, conceded that a large number of votes (more than enough to undisputedly declare him the Florida winner) he received were obviously meant for Gore based on historical voting results, the liberal nature of the county and the screwy nature of the ballot used. But by and large they focused on questionable ballots and recounting the ballots by hand. The ballots were questionable in the sense of ballot machine error and determining what the votes were, from not thoroughly punched holes and "hanging chads."
The Governor of Florida, the one in charge of the executive branch of the state, was Bush's very own brother and quite naturally his officers were conservative republications that wanted the Governor's brother to win. The woman in charge of declaring the winner of the election made a surprising move to declare Bush the winner when the matter was still before the courts.
The matter went before the Florida State Supreme Court as it should and they ruled the matter unresolved. The court is the ultimate arbiter in the matter of elections. They make decisions as to the law and implement it, when the law isn't clear enough, it's up to them to resolve the matter. The judicial branch decided, the executive branch implements. What they decided and that which I disagree with is that recounting should continue. I didn't know how the recount would go at the time but I felt that it would probably still be so close that the final results would be moot. The writing was on the wall, what they should have done is immediately, especially considering the results of the counties with fishy ballots, was to invalidate the election results and reorder a statewide election to decide the winner of the presidential electors. They could have done this one week after the election when it was clear there were problems but they didn't and instead ordered that the recounts go on. A weak and indecisive decision.
But then the Unites States supreme court got involved, a republican controlled court I might add. They shouldn't have gotten involved because although it was a federal election it was a state matter. And ironically it's the Republicans on the court that are the staunch supporters of State seventy and rights. They strangely decided that state courts shouldn't be involved and that the executive branch of the state had the undisputed right to declare the winner of the election and as history records, Bush was sworn into office. But if the courts shouldn't be involved they why did they get involved? I disagree with their decision. They shouldn't have gotten involved but a better decision that would have resulted in Bush being sworn and the court retaining some credibility was to declare the election undecided and turn it over to the newly elected congress to decide which being Republican controlled would have resulted in the election of Bush. Instead they choose the quickest way to get their man sworn into office.
But Gore was the biggest disappointment of all. If it were as simple as whomever had the greatest number of votes naturally then Gore was the clear winner, more Americans voted for him. But instead we have a point system where points are divided up among the states and it's either a winner takes all situation or points are awarded according to the state rules and election results. And when it comes to intention, Gore did win Florida, but the powers that decided the confusing electoral ballots, the usual political corruption that usually doesn't matter finally did. But what did Gore do, the people choose him, did he in the least fight for us that voted him into office? Did he make a big stink about political corruption or take leadership in creating better voting machines and establishing nominal nationwide elections policies to at least address the problem? Did he trade his acquiescence for getting rid of the electoral process and going to a popular vote? Did he trade his acquiescence for a backroom deal for unofficial backseat powers and lessen Bush's right wing leanings? No he did none of this. He ran away. He betrayed me and the American people and he doesn't deserve to be president of this great nation. Because of him we had 911 and 8 years of Bush.
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Tech: Rant - Stupid Programmers
I expect open source code to be crappy but it just keeps on surprising me with how bad it is. I am quite anal retentive, it's either all or nothing, whether it comes to life or source code, but particularly source code.
I am currently working on setting up cross compiling on my Freebsd box so I can have a unified programming environment. I also am getting into embedded programming and need to be able to compile for various processors and gcc is wonderful in this respect. But you programming ignorant people out there have no idea how brain dead the gnu development tools autoconfig and automake are. Mix in the ignorant programmers trying to use them and you might get part of the picture.
Case in point. GCC itself wants to compile it's Gcclib library. This is a library which modules use to access OS dependent functions such as exception handling and threads but that's neither here nor there. Why it isn't considered part of the runtime I'll never figure out. But in order to compile this Gcclib library and finish compiling the compiler you need the OS and runtime libraries. But to compile them you need a working compiler! Brain dead. To throw even more fuel onto the fire, the mingw32(windows) platform, which is one of the platforms I'm targeting, has a separate runtime and OS libraries that depend upon each other!!! People, this is the equivalent of a surgeon leaving medical instrument inside a patient after a surgery. I'm am convinced that the people composing these programs and libraries don't even bother compiling them to see if they work.
I am currently working on setting up cross compiling on my Freebsd box so I can have a unified programming environment. I also am getting into embedded programming and need to be able to compile for various processors and gcc is wonderful in this respect. But you programming ignorant people out there have no idea how brain dead the gnu development tools autoconfig and automake are. Mix in the ignorant programmers trying to use them and you might get part of the picture.
Case in point. GCC itself wants to compile it's Gcclib library. This is a library which modules use to access OS dependent functions such as exception handling and threads but that's neither here nor there. Why it isn't considered part of the runtime I'll never figure out. But in order to compile this Gcclib library and finish compiling the compiler you need the OS and runtime libraries. But to compile them you need a working compiler! Brain dead. To throw even more fuel onto the fire, the mingw32(windows) platform, which is one of the platforms I'm targeting, has a separate runtime and OS libraries that depend upon each other!!! People, this is the equivalent of a surgeon leaving medical instrument inside a patient after a surgery. I'm am convinced that the people composing these programs and libraries don't even bother compiling them to see if they work.
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Mame - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
I've known about this program for many years. It's a arcade machine emulator. What it means is that if you download and install this program and can find ROMs in the underground scene then you can relive great arcade games of old right on your home PC. From Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Centipede, to any of the more modern games. ROM trading is currently illegal but hopefully they will get a clue and we'll all be able to legally purchase and download these old classic games in an iPod like manor sometime in the future. I particularly enjoy finally beating games I pumped hundreds of dollars into back in the day.
Monday, December 26, 2005
GPL = Software Socialism
Just a nerdish rant.
I just want to go on the record and say I do not support more than I have to, nor condone the GPL. The GPL is the GNU public licence and it is the socialist manifesto of the software world. It is something that must and should exist but what disturbs me is it's popularity. The GPL is all but synonymous with the concept of open source when in fact it is the cancer of it. Open source simple means that the source is available for you to look at and examine. There are no other rights or obligations that should be allocate with the term. The term is simply an assurance you can know what a specific piece of software is doing if you can read it's source code. This allows you to better understand the software as well as knowledge to reimplement a feature for a competing product. Anything beyond this should be considered beyond the scope of open source.
Back in the early days of software, people had access to the source code to the software that they used which was fine since by and large most users were required to know how to program in order get useful work from a computer. People made changes to software and they exchanged their enhancements freely and without change, it was a small inbred community. But computers proliferated. Some (such as Gill Gates) saw it purely as a money making business and hoarded and controlled their code, each trying to establish a monopoly in their small domain of the software world. Others (such as Richard Stallman) with their socialist ideals and love of their experience in early commune days of the software era took offence to anyone abandoning the commune ideals and schemed to recover from mass exodus of those abandoning the commune ideals and thus created the GNU Public Licence which took ten to fifteen years before achieving great success.
Then there were the tweeners, those that held to no ideal. The tweeners are the people that produced freeware and BSD and similar nominally licensed programs. These are the people that worked for proprietary software businesses by day but produced and gave away useful programs to the community. They did this not because they were compelled to do so by any licence but rather out of a sense of community responsibility. Ironically Richard Stallman's movement snowballed not out of community altruism but rather out egotism and selfishness. Those that could not give without seeing something in return. Those that could not give and bear to see others benefit. That is who embraced the GPL. They took and continue to take code from the BSD moment for their cause and contribute none of it back. The GPL'ers are worse than the proprietaries, because at least the proprietaries are honest.
I just want to go on the record and say I do not support more than I have to, nor condone the GPL. The GPL is the GNU public licence and it is the socialist manifesto of the software world. It is something that must and should exist but what disturbs me is it's popularity. The GPL is all but synonymous with the concept of open source when in fact it is the cancer of it. Open source simple means that the source is available for you to look at and examine. There are no other rights or obligations that should be allocate with the term. The term is simply an assurance you can know what a specific piece of software is doing if you can read it's source code. This allows you to better understand the software as well as knowledge to reimplement a feature for a competing product. Anything beyond this should be considered beyond the scope of open source.
Back in the early days of software, people had access to the source code to the software that they used which was fine since by and large most users were required to know how to program in order get useful work from a computer. People made changes to software and they exchanged their enhancements freely and without change, it was a small inbred community. But computers proliferated. Some (such as Gill Gates) saw it purely as a money making business and hoarded and controlled their code, each trying to establish a monopoly in their small domain of the software world. Others (such as Richard Stallman) with their socialist ideals and love of their experience in early commune days of the software era took offence to anyone abandoning the commune ideals and schemed to recover from mass exodus of those abandoning the commune ideals and thus created the GNU Public Licence which took ten to fifteen years before achieving great success.
Then there were the tweeners, those that held to no ideal. The tweeners are the people that produced freeware and BSD and similar nominally licensed programs. These are the people that worked for proprietary software businesses by day but produced and gave away useful programs to the community. They did this not because they were compelled to do so by any licence but rather out of a sense of community responsibility. Ironically Richard Stallman's movement snowballed not out of community altruism but rather out egotism and selfishness. Those that could not give without seeing something in return. Those that could not give and bear to see others benefit. That is who embraced the GPL. They took and continue to take code from the BSD moment for their cause and contribute none of it back. The GPL'ers are worse than the proprietaries, because at least the proprietaries are honest.
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Intelligent Design
I'm kind of wondering now if the Intelligent Design proponents don't have a point. Their whole argument comes down to a gap in evolution, that is, how did the first cells come about. Evolution seems to be contingent upon cells with a genetic structure. How do you go from random chemicals to a biological machine?
Christian bible thumpers in particular really have a tough time with the contradiction in the bible as to how old the earth is and in particular evolutionary evidence to the contrary. For you see, God as they make him out to be and as I understand the concept is omnipotent; he can do anything. That being so he can create a universe mid stream with an existing history. In a single moment he can create all the moments to be and all that were. To use the same holes in logic against them the evidence is pretty clear that if there is a god he offers no proof of his existence and in fact it appears that he doesn't wish his existence known. It's truly an issue of faith.
Let me point out. This isn't a true theory as it doesn't predict anything as much as it is a hole in the evolutionary theory. I find it strange though that religious people try to use it. This is something the tin foil hat people that listen to the 2am radios shows about conspiracies and aliens would point out. This is because if cell development isn't natural then something else in the universe created biological cell. Much in the same way we are going to create nano machines. What if these nano machines were given an ability to evolve? They could then conceivably evolve naturally into intelligent beings. How would they explain the development of their first cells?
What if there exists in this universe a much simpler and easier to develop route to intelligent life? Say something akin to a cloud of nebula gas or some such other exotic concept of life. This other life form wanting to change it's environment would create machines and tools to do so. Nano machines are the ultimate technology of manufacturing and every technological intelligence I would think would develop them in due time. Biological cells might in fact be a form of nano machine particularly adapted to a planet such as earth. But as you can see this is a long stretch of the imagination and not something that should be taught in a classroom. We teach knowledge to children, not speculation.
Christian bible thumpers in particular really have a tough time with the contradiction in the bible as to how old the earth is and in particular evolutionary evidence to the contrary. For you see, God as they make him out to be and as I understand the concept is omnipotent; he can do anything. That being so he can create a universe mid stream with an existing history. In a single moment he can create all the moments to be and all that were. To use the same holes in logic against them the evidence is pretty clear that if there is a god he offers no proof of his existence and in fact it appears that he doesn't wish his existence known. It's truly an issue of faith.
Let me point out. This isn't a true theory as it doesn't predict anything as much as it is a hole in the evolutionary theory. I find it strange though that religious people try to use it. This is something the tin foil hat people that listen to the 2am radios shows about conspiracies and aliens would point out. This is because if cell development isn't natural then something else in the universe created biological cell. Much in the same way we are going to create nano machines. What if these nano machines were given an ability to evolve? They could then conceivably evolve naturally into intelligent beings. How would they explain the development of their first cells?
What if there exists in this universe a much simpler and easier to develop route to intelligent life? Say something akin to a cloud of nebula gas or some such other exotic concept of life. This other life form wanting to change it's environment would create machines and tools to do so. Nano machines are the ultimate technology of manufacturing and every technological intelligence I would think would develop them in due time. Biological cells might in fact be a form of nano machine particularly adapted to a planet such as earth. But as you can see this is a long stretch of the imagination and not something that should be taught in a classroom. We teach knowledge to children, not speculation.
Monday, December 12, 2005
Tech: Turn That Old Computer into a File Server
If you just upgraded to a new computer or have a spare computer lying around then I suggest you turn that old computer into a file server. For home purposes a file server doesn't need to be particularly fast so that old computer if it's within a couple generation will do just fine. You need to fresh install a copy of Windows XP or if your really technically savvy or don't have a spare licence copy of windows around you can install Linux or FreeBSD. Just remember to install and configure Samba file sharing. Just remember to install the Operating system on it's own hard disk and use separate hard disks and shares for accessing those hard drives across a network.
If you have a bit of money to spare and want a lot of storage space then I'm going to suggest that you purchase and setup a RAID 5 array. This is just a special interface card and a bunch of identical hard drives hooked up to that card. A RAID 5 array combines the total storage space of all the hard drives into one virtual hard disk minus the capacity of one drive. That one drive serves the special purpose of fault tolerance. You see the more hard disks you have the more likely are you to suffer a hard disk crash; they do happen and usually a major loss. But with a RAID 5 array if you lose a single hard disk the array continues to work and when you install a new replacement hard disk, all the data is automatically recovered. If your paranoid you can even maintain install an additional hot spare for immediate data regeneration. In other words if you use 250GB sized disk you need at least three drives and those three drives result in 500GB of storage that looks like a single drive. Many controller cards now support the ability to dynamical add additional hard disks to expand the array. This along with a partition utility like Partition Magic, allow you purchase and install more hard disk space as you need it, up to the maximum number of drives that the controller supports. Just remember to install extra fans in the case as too many hard drives may overheat the computer and all the hard disks need to be the same size and preferably the same make and model.
What I did was install FreeBSD 6.0 on my spare box, then I purchased a Highpoint Rocketraid 2220 SATA RAID controller. This is a software RAID card and currently sells for around $300 dollars. While hardly the fastest controller out there it is possibly the best combination of features and price out there for a simple file server. The card supports 8 hard drives but should you want an even larger array this card allows you to install a second card and connect a wire between them to drive a 16 drive array should you want to expand that much. I then purchased 3 Western Digital WD2500SD 250GB drives and recently upgraded to a 4th. These currently go for around $100 a piece and no doubt prices will continue to fall. I currently have 750GB of storage available and can expand all the way up to 3750GB which is 15x250GB. One of the things I have done with all that space is install a Virtual CD program and made images of all my CDROM's and music CD's so I never need to hunt for discs anymore which is particularly useful if your a techie like me that messes up his computer often enough and need to reinstall everything regularly. I also sync data files and back them up to the server automatically. I also am planning after I purchase my next computer system to put a couple TV cards into my current system and turn it into my own Tivo which will be able to save directly to the file server.
If you have a bit of money to spare and want a lot of storage space then I'm going to suggest that you purchase and setup a RAID 5 array. This is just a special interface card and a bunch of identical hard drives hooked up to that card. A RAID 5 array combines the total storage space of all the hard drives into one virtual hard disk minus the capacity of one drive. That one drive serves the special purpose of fault tolerance. You see the more hard disks you have the more likely are you to suffer a hard disk crash; they do happen and usually a major loss. But with a RAID 5 array if you lose a single hard disk the array continues to work and when you install a new replacement hard disk, all the data is automatically recovered. If your paranoid you can even maintain install an additional hot spare for immediate data regeneration. In other words if you use 250GB sized disk you need at least three drives and those three drives result in 500GB of storage that looks like a single drive. Many controller cards now support the ability to dynamical add additional hard disks to expand the array. This along with a partition utility like Partition Magic, allow you purchase and install more hard disk space as you need it, up to the maximum number of drives that the controller supports. Just remember to install extra fans in the case as too many hard drives may overheat the computer and all the hard disks need to be the same size and preferably the same make and model.
What I did was install FreeBSD 6.0 on my spare box, then I purchased a Highpoint Rocketraid 2220 SATA RAID controller. This is a software RAID card and currently sells for around $300 dollars. While hardly the fastest controller out there it is possibly the best combination of features and price out there for a simple file server. The card supports 8 hard drives but should you want an even larger array this card allows you to install a second card and connect a wire between them to drive a 16 drive array should you want to expand that much. I then purchased 3 Western Digital WD2500SD 250GB drives and recently upgraded to a 4th. These currently go for around $100 a piece and no doubt prices will continue to fall. I currently have 750GB of storage available and can expand all the way up to 3750GB which is 15x250GB. One of the things I have done with all that space is install a Virtual CD program and made images of all my CDROM's and music CD's so I never need to hunt for discs anymore which is particularly useful if your a techie like me that messes up his computer often enough and need to reinstall everything regularly. I also sync data files and back them up to the server automatically. I also am planning after I purchase my next computer system to put a couple TV cards into my current system and turn it into my own Tivo which will be able to save directly to the file server.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Tech: Mozilla - Greasemonkey
Well I think it might be interesting to journal some of the geek stuff I learn so here is the first of what is probably may be many tech entries.
Today I learned about client side scripting of web pages. Mozilla has this very nice little XPI extension called Greasemonkey though someone was nice enough to create it's equivalent Trixie for Internet Explorer. What it does is basically inject Javascript code into HTML documents. Such an injected script is capable of completely rewriting a web page though in all practicality it's most useful in tweaking web pages and their behaviors. This script for example automatically logs you into Myspace which is useful as I'm the only one that uses my computer and after all it's only myspace. One thing bugs me about Myspace is all the music and videos that automatically play when you load someones Myspace page; I am going to write a script that turns all the various players off by default as well as add an external link you can right click on to save all the cool videos and music to disk. Also Yahoo include an HTML flag on it's login pages that Mozilla honors such that it won't store your password in password manager; this script will remove that flag and henceforth no more typing a password to read my yahoo mail!
Something else interesting that I learned is that all the cool XPI extensions for Mozilla and Firefox are just ZIP files with installation and meta data such as author names, but the code itself is Javascript just like Greasemonkey! Scripts can be converted to XPI Mozilla extension when they become complicated and need extra functionality in modifying browser behavior such as creating their own configuration menus.
So you tell me, what web pages do you visit and what is it about them that bothers you that you wish you could change?
Today I learned about client side scripting of web pages. Mozilla has this very nice little XPI extension called Greasemonkey though someone was nice enough to create it's equivalent Trixie for Internet Explorer. What it does is basically inject Javascript code into HTML documents. Such an injected script is capable of completely rewriting a web page though in all practicality it's most useful in tweaking web pages and their behaviors. This script for example automatically logs you into Myspace which is useful as I'm the only one that uses my computer and after all it's only myspace. One thing bugs me about Myspace is all the music and videos that automatically play when you load someones Myspace page; I am going to write a script that turns all the various players off by default as well as add an external link you can right click on to save all the cool videos and music to disk. Also Yahoo include an HTML flag on it's login pages that Mozilla honors such that it won't store your password in password manager; this script will remove that flag and henceforth no more typing a password to read my yahoo mail!
Something else interesting that I learned is that all the cool XPI extensions for Mozilla and Firefox are just ZIP files with installation and meta data such as author names, but the code itself is Javascript just like Greasemonkey! Scripts can be converted to XPI Mozilla extension when they become complicated and need extra functionality in modifying browser behavior such as creating their own configuration menus.
So you tell me, what web pages do you visit and what is it about them that bothers you that you wish you could change?
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Still Alive
Well I'm still alive and kicking. It's just that time of year I guess, I seem to be in hibernation mode. Not really laziness, more lethargic although I have all sorts of things I need to do, chiefly among them fixing my motorcycle and look for a new job. I think overworking a thankless job finally got to me. I haven't even really had the urge to go out and drink much lately either.
Anyway I finally got a new motherboard for my computer and I struggled all last week reinstalling everything and trying to get it all set up right with the servers. Right now I'm making CD images of all my games and programs for online archiving and so I can get the CD's out of the way, kind of like a computer jukebox. Speaking of jukebox's, I also want to make my own little ripping program for my music, I'm just to obsessed with perfection and nothing exists that will do what I want. And remember how years ago there was this craze with used music stores? Whatever happened to them? Thanks to my Nomad(like an ipod) I'm finally into music but I insist on ripping it myself and hence I have to own the CD's. There are used movies and video games everywhere but it's like I've become blind to the used music stores, I just don't see them around anymore.
Other than that I think I'm coming down with the reading bug again which would fit in with my lethargy. It's been a couple years since I've read much of anything.
Anyway I finally got a new motherboard for my computer and I struggled all last week reinstalling everything and trying to get it all set up right with the servers. Right now I'm making CD images of all my games and programs for online archiving and so I can get the CD's out of the way, kind of like a computer jukebox. Speaking of jukebox's, I also want to make my own little ripping program for my music, I'm just to obsessed with perfection and nothing exists that will do what I want. And remember how years ago there was this craze with used music stores? Whatever happened to them? Thanks to my Nomad(like an ipod) I'm finally into music but I insist on ripping it myself and hence I have to own the CD's. There are used movies and video games everywhere but it's like I've become blind to the used music stores, I just don't see them around anymore.
Other than that I think I'm coming down with the reading bug again which would fit in with my lethargy. It's been a couple years since I've read much of anything.
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