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.

Natural Strength and Acquired Strength

Everyone is different and captures every moment differently from the person next to them. Not a single person has the same neurological connections as the person next to them. This is the difference between people.

Everybody goes through events and consequences in their life which shape their personality and their emotional perception. Some people take the lesson and move on, whilst others sit and mourn until their feelings start to change.
The difference between the two types of people is simple;

1. Natural Strength is the ability to keep moving forward because your mind is able to process the images, voices, etc without having to connect to their emotional side, without hesitation, they face the struggle and find ways to conquer it. Just because.

2. Acquired Strength is a slow and timely process that takes years of suffering and experience in order to develop the will to move on, every event that has significant impact will create a memory and a way to deal with the situation should it come around again .

Neither is better but in order to  it vital to understand that failing is a part of life that should be taken positively rather than negatively. People with natural strength do not have to worry about building strength through experience but rather will use their instinct to push through the situation and then acquire the lesson. In other words, they use their strength to learn the lesson rather than build strength through the learning process.

You cannot build natural strength. It runs deep in the blood.

Nostalgia: Level Snow

Throughout my travels, as far as I can remember one thing has always stayed the same...the snow that falls onto the ground. It reminds me of a place I like to call "home":

Google Street View: A rare insight.

Images captured by the Google Street View car:

To fall for the 7th time.

"七転び八起き"

In order to come to terms with one's mistakes, it's important to understand the meaning of standing up 8 times. A simple person would interpret the concept in a way where the number of times you can recover from any given situation is 8 times.

Then there are some...the one's who understand the meaning behind the number 8.

No limits, no boundaries - every fall is a new challenge which will develop understanding an experience. There is no limit as to how many times a person can stand back up. Only the weak willed have limits. We do not.

I will never allow myself to give up. No matter how much I bleed, suffer or get lost, I will stand up for the 8th time.

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.

Euphoria; a new beginning.

People are lead to believe that doing a certain amount of drugs will cause an overdose, a euphoria of emotions that leads them to believe that they will not survive the night. I fail to understand this.
In my lifetime I have taken many drugs, from powder to green. To this day I am still standing healthy and trying to understand the problems people have when they intoxicate themselves.

Once they understand that the body is a strong organism, will they understand that the amount of drugs they dare to do will not be able to harm the human body.

Today is a new day, it is the 1st of January 2013 and a new beginning. I have had many disputes and thoughts when it comes to turning a new leaf at the start of a new year...

The human mind works in a mysterious way. It populates the memories of Christmas with a bundle of unfamiliar emotions. In simple terms...people start to become nostalgic due to the memories they have attached to the festival. I come across the same situation as when it comes to relationships.The same way they see the 1st of January a start of a new leaf, a new life...
It doesn't work that way...whether it is a special occasion or not, the mind is not able to simply switch off certain dirty habits. People form a false belief around the idea of starting anew on the 1st of January and then fail to comply with their 'new years resolutions' because it is not as simple as flicking a switch.

Considering something has become a big enough impact in your life to consider a change, your must understand that a habit takes 21 non-repetitions in order to eliminate. People who fail to understand this will be stuck in an endless cycle of 'new year promises'.

If something is worth a change, don't hesitate to make that change, a date on the calender won't change your motivation.

Fuck motivation; just do it.

Never the less, whatever you take from this...happy new year.