I'm uploading a raw batch of photos I took at Bonnaroo. Link below. It took way too long to remember how to batch resize these things...of course, I kind of did it in between some gaming. Which oddly wasn't very rewarding tonight. Maybe I'll sell that game. Anyway, I'll try and remember to put up a more detailed post about the event. Until then, enjoy the photos!
Bonnaroo, where Eminem gets more fireworks than Canada Day
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
I never thought it would happen
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
After a blu-ray legacy
I just finished watching Tron: Legacy tonight. I pre-ordered a 5-disc collection on amazon and it finally showed up today. It's an interesting movie for those who like computers and programming; perhaps a bit dull otherwise. The visuals are stunning, really top notch (although C.L.U. could use some work, even if he is cutting edge sfx technology). After watching it a second time, it still strikes me as an interesting commentary on the state of computing today. We are headed towards a reversion of sorts: comparatively dumb terminals connecting to the mainframe to accomplish all manner of things. From creating and sharing office documents (mind you, not Microsoft related, just the old-fashioned sense of the word) to posting about how totally wasted you got last night, it's all being shuffled off from local creation and storage to remote, centralized locations. It is strange to see. There is power, and utility, in moving to this kind of computing, but this is how computing began.
Large and expensive mainframe computers were installed by entities fiscally big enough to afford them, and access to their computing power was alotted to people who interacted with the computer from a remote terminal that amounted to little more than a screen and a keyboard. The paradigm this time around is somewhat different, as your terminal will no doubt retain the ability to do some things on its own. Mundane tasks that don't need to be performed by the central "computer" are handled by yours.
The problem will once again become what it was before: access. It will come down to having to go through internet service providers to access all the things we do in our daily digital lives, and that access will cost dearly as things now stand. The companies that perform these types of services for us do not want to be merely the way to get to where you want to be online (Facebook, Google, Zynga, whatever), they want to be a destination as well. That argument is well underway so I won't undertake it here. However, there will also be a problem of bandwidth. If all of us increasingly do everything we need to do to get through our daily lives in ways that involve cloud computing then we will eat up the ability to connect to those services.
It's interesting to note that much of the power of modern computing began with the decentralization of the mainframe. Providing everyone their own computer fostered a tremendous amount of innovation. It seems that innovation is headed back in for it's tail; Ouroboros hungry for more.
I'll leave off with that, but I may revisit this topic later. At least, I hope I do because this strikes me as half-formed at the moment.
Large and expensive mainframe computers were installed by entities fiscally big enough to afford them, and access to their computing power was alotted to people who interacted with the computer from a remote terminal that amounted to little more than a screen and a keyboard. The paradigm this time around is somewhat different, as your terminal will no doubt retain the ability to do some things on its own. Mundane tasks that don't need to be performed by the central "computer" are handled by yours.
The problem will once again become what it was before: access. It will come down to having to go through internet service providers to access all the things we do in our daily digital lives, and that access will cost dearly as things now stand. The companies that perform these types of services for us do not want to be merely the way to get to where you want to be online (Facebook, Google, Zynga, whatever), they want to be a destination as well. That argument is well underway so I won't undertake it here. However, there will also be a problem of bandwidth. If all of us increasingly do everything we need to do to get through our daily lives in ways that involve cloud computing then we will eat up the ability to connect to those services.
It's interesting to note that much of the power of modern computing began with the decentralization of the mainframe. Providing everyone their own computer fostered a tremendous amount of innovation. It seems that innovation is headed back in for it's tail; Ouroboros hungry for more.
I'll leave off with that, but I may revisit this topic later. At least, I hope I do because this strikes me as half-formed at the moment.
Monday, March 28, 2011
FIRST!
I don't like when people do that, so I have summarily trumped anyone that might visit the site. If you don't visit forums much or see sites where people leave comments, this is a long standing annoyance of posters. What it signifies for the poster I am not sure; surely it holds some meaning for them.
This is where you can find me now, after having left a certain blue bannered company that has stuck it's thumb everywhere on the internet. I tired of complaining that they should change their website and fix this 'feature' or that 'feature', but in the end I figured I might as well just stop complaining and stop using a service I no longer found any value in. Their value lies in the people I know, and I implicitly know them already so finding no value-add to the site leaves me wondering why it is so popular.
Hope to see you around here more. I have a twitter that will likely have more timely updates on it; I feel like this will be more for longer thoughts on events, or videos I find online or what have you. I hope to link photos I take on here as well.
I hope maybe some of you will, like me, take the plunge and move beyond the internet that is only as complex as "Like".
This is where you can find me now, after having left a certain blue bannered company that has stuck it's thumb everywhere on the internet. I tired of complaining that they should change their website and fix this 'feature' or that 'feature', but in the end I figured I might as well just stop complaining and stop using a service I no longer found any value in. Their value lies in the people I know, and I implicitly know them already so finding no value-add to the site leaves me wondering why it is so popular.
Hope to see you around here more. I have a twitter that will likely have more timely updates on it; I feel like this will be more for longer thoughts on events, or videos I find online or what have you. I hope to link photos I take on here as well.
I hope maybe some of you will, like me, take the plunge and move beyond the internet that is only as complex as "Like".
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