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:

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.

Pokemon: The Real Deal

I couldn't help myself but share this in a a post rather than just uploading it to the photo gallery. The art work and effort put behind this is remarkable!

2013: What to put into your calender

Some important dates which you should definitely keep free when making plans:

Pins & Needles.

Once a night my bedroom light

Bleeds out from inside my window

Eyes white, I keep out of sight

This city's just not pretty like it used to be

It's always a nightmare, it's never a dream

The promise we made to kill the days between

They live in the heartbeat and sleep til the light is gone

It's been so long

Feels like pins and needles in my heart

So long

I can feel it tearing me apart

To the bed the left unsaid

Crawl in from outside my window

Hands red and cold as the dead

A pity they're not pretty like they used to be

It's always a nightmare, it's never a dream

The promise we made to kill the days between

They live in the heartbeat and sleep til the light is gone

It's been so long

Feels like pins and needles in my heart

So long

I can feel it tearing me apart

It's never a whisper, it's always a scream

The promise we made to kill the time between

They live in the heartbeat and sleep til the light is gone

It's been so long

Feels like pins and needles in my heart

So long

I can feel it tearing me apart

Always a good read; relax, we understand j00!

Back when I was a teenager we didn't have streaming media and torrents. Loading a web page was as painful as waiting for the kettle to boil.

I remember trying finding ways to pass the time whilst also trying to utilize my grandparent's newly acquired 56K modem. I was lost for ideas at this point and I couldn't find any use for the internet. After a long break from using the computer I came back...I remember waiting for Internet Explorer 4.0 to load up. When it had finally finished, I loaded up Google and just typed comics into the search bar...the first result:

MegaTokyo, for anyone who doesn't know, I suggest giving it a read, the link is here: MegaTokyo: Relax, we understand j00!

A manga based on two boys taking plane tickets to Tokyo with no plan or money.

Enjoy and spend your time well.