Less talk; more action

Being preoccupied is something that keeps me on my feet. I will make sure I always have a day that is filled with tasks and free-time. I find micro-management a very useful, efficient and easily adaptable concept that everyone should consider learning and applying in their everyday life.

A lot is going on at the moment and I find at the moment I'm far too deep in the waters to write about it. I need to explore this new abyss and see what I must do to ensure I stay on the right path.

The reason for the post is to announce:

1. New Blog Section - AION Online: My personal collaboration of guides, tips & tricks and modifications.
2. Download Section: Offering you all my modifications and scripts to download.
3. The foundations for a community - I have set the foundations for the new community I am building. 

Please be patient as at the moment I am very busy.

Enabling: Alexandra Matsi

Not a lot of people these days follow their dreams and desires. So when I come across someone who is doing everything they can to enable their dream, I will find any way to support that person.

I have come across a young girl who has a passion for her acoustic guitar and vocal trance. It becomes an interesting and new mix.

Alexandra Matsi's Sound Cloud can be found by clicking here.

Google Street View: A rare insight.

Images captured by the Google Street View car:

A new start. From Windows to Linux

I've been on and off with Linux and Windows throughout my years of trial and error. It was strange, I never felt comfortable with Linux and I always felt as if something was missing.

Today something funny happened. My laptop had turned sluggish and I decided to restart. I left the Fedora Core 17 image in the CD drive and when I came back up stairs from making a cup of tea...I saw the install screen. I thought fuck it why not? Everything I wanted to keep was already on the second partition of my HD so why not...[enter]

So here I am, setting up my distro of Fedora...

Growing old on the Internet

I was browsing the MegaTokyo forums this morning and I came across a very interesting post which made me think back of how long I've been on the internet.
I got my first dial-up internet plan from my ISP back in 2001. The area I lived in was still unsupported and the internet would often have trouble connecting. When I did finally manage to make it work, I entered a whole new world.
I remember looking at the Netscape Navigator icon...it was strange double clicking that icon used to be an unfamiliar activity. Today, the first thing that I start-up is Google Chrome.
The first community I was ever a part of was Epilogue.net. I couldn't draw but I really appreciated the art work. I only ever browsed and left the odd comment and never really met anyone. Later on in the year, my friend introduced me to the MegaTokyo manga. I remember how all I could think of at school was getting home and carry on reading. By this point, I had around 800 strips to get through so I had plenty of reading material.
Shortly after, the MSN Messenger bug had hit everyone. Standard school day routine: come home, throw bag onto floor, boot up PC, log onto MSN, chat to girls. Most of us wouldn't even get changed or have something to eat, almost as if it was a competition as to who could log on first.
This was the first time I started mixing the internet and my real social life. In 2006, ADSL had finally arrived. The internet was now a normal everyday thing even for my Grandparents. They would use it to read the news, send e-mails and order for their business. It almost seems a century away...
Once I had a good and stable internet connection, I started getting into programming. I was always fascinated by being able to make a piece of software do exactly as I wanted it to.
I joined community after community. My favorite communities at that time was Astalavista and Elite-Hacker forums. They seemed to be the only ones that had reasonable and mature people on it. Usually you would find 13 year old 3L1T3 H4CK3R5 who would find you and kill you whenever they lost an argument.
By this point, no-body could track the communities and forums they had signed up for. The internet started become a mess of accounts that we were unable to keep track of. I remember having a pad with all the usernames and passwords I used.

This is when web 2.0 was born. I wasn't the only one having this problem, and it seemed that people had so many identities that nobody knew who they were talking to. Then came Facebook alongside OpenID. One account for them all. Everybody should easily be able to keep their accounts tracked and be able to publish contents onto the internet without needing the technical know-how. The result? Well what you see today.

Blogs, forums and a single sign-on service thanks to Google, Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.