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The Internet Has Created A New World

By on Mar 20, 2006 in Blog Posts, Internet | 1 comment

I am addicted to being “connected”. Being online (or at least being no less than one hour from a web enabled location at all times) is now one of the most important things in my life. I never realized this until I lost my connection a few years ago. It was like watching a drug addict suffer withdrawal symptoms. I wandered from room to room lost in a world of emptiness – no news, E-Mail, online games, buddies, forums and chat rooms. I refreshed my browser to no avail. I reset my cable modem every 15 minutes. It was sad. I was sad.Of course the connection was finally restored and so therefore was my link to the world. I was reminded my previous experience when I returned today after almost two days without accessing the Internet. I felt the need to get online deep within me when my computers were only yards away. It grew stronger as I entered my house until it overcame...

Do I have ADD or am I just lazy?

By on Mar 15, 2006 in Blog Posts | 2 comments

I can’t focus. I work, then I stop and listen to some music. Then I work for a while longer and stop to go get a drink. A little more work then a lot of sitting in the tub being warm. Some more work then an hour (or two or three) for lunch. A power session of working, then distracted by some E-Mail or blog post or news article. Distracted again by music. Focus lost now due to E-Mail/Blog post/new article thingies. Even writing this I find myself wondering what I’m going to do when I finish. Maybe I’ll cut it short so I can go

Linux Madness

By on Mar 10, 2006 in Blog Posts, Software | 0 comments

Ahhhhh!!!! My PCLinuxOS server crashed (peace out Maxtor hard drive), and so I went about attempting to recover the data. It took me almost 4 days of off and on troubleshooting but I am proud to announce that all of the data has been recovered. That was thanks to OpenSUSE 10.1 Beta 6 and it’s robust set of module and drivers. Unfortunately OpenSUSE is not as user friendly or package complete as PCLinuxOS .92 so I’m currently working on re-installing that. I say working on it because I’m getting a lame Kernel panic error that I’m trudging through at the moment.During these events I tried the most current release of the popular Linux distro, Ubuntu 5.10. Color me not impressed. There are to many issues to list, but the first and most apparent problem I have is the use of the “sudo” account. The sudo account is the Ubunutu equivalent of...

WFMU Needs Your Help

By on Mar 3, 2006 in Blog Posts | 0 comments

In the world we live in there are not many things left that can be described as “pure”. WFMU (wfmu.org) is one of those that still can. I first discovered WFMU over a year ago when a friend of mine turned me on to Seven Second Delay, one of their radio shows. Ever since I have been a supporter of the station. Do I like everything they play? No. Hell, I hardly like anything that they play, but I do not support WFMU because of the music the play, rather the principle they support. There is a phrase that they are very proud of at WFMU, and that is “Listener supported”. That’s a term we have all learned to associate with PBS, but even at its most honest PBS isn’t listener supported. While it may be true that they rely on our support for a small amount of their budget, I hardly think that if a few hundred of us didn’t pledge that PBS would suffer...

Recent News & my Myspace.com Rant

By on Feb 27, 2006 in Blog Posts, Internet | 0 comments

Well I have been very busy lately! I’ve been working on the new Ben Phelps Project website which is coming along nicely as well as other bands related items. Business and all other aspects of my life are going well and I have therefore not had a moment to breathe these past few weeks.I hate myspace.com. It’s a horrid implementation of an idea that’s been around since the beginning of the Internet. Plagued by technical issues, one wonders how it has become so popular. Many times you can’t log in and I can honestly say I’ve never seen the site fully functional. E-Mails and other messages are delayed and IM’ing has simply never worked. It boggles the mind that the youth of the world would embrace such a clearly inadequate means of communication. At its best myspace.com is a glorified profile system, not unlike that used by Yahoo!, AOL, and MSN for...