Archive for March, 2007
Today I’m celebrating exactly one year with my wonderful girlfriend!
Some nice food, something nice to drink, rose petals strewn over the floor and the bed and some presents. It’s going to be really nice.
But right now, there’s a ton of cleaning to do. The apartment looks like a dump!
…Someone give me an 80GB iPod! My old iAudio M3 is running out of disk space quick, with only 20GB to begin with. I really hate having to choose what to bring with me when I’m away from home. I love having every album at the tip of my finger, wherever I am.
By the way, do you like my Last.fm “quilt”? Corny, I know… But what the hell :)
Last.fm is a cool concept, and I’ve been finding tons of new bands and music by checking tags and associated artists. Although I would like to see a more refined, slightly more complicated algorithm for calculating an artists/albums popularity. Merely counting plays doesn’t really cut it, especially not when I have a bunch of Godspeed You! Black Emperor songs at ~20 minutes each, mixed with ~2 minute punk songs. Guess which Last.fm thinks I listen to the most?
Anyone else beside me that just can’t wait for this awesome album to be released? I’ve been following this AIR-thing (Art Is Resistance) for a while now, and it’s one of the coolest things on the web I’ve ever seen. If you don’t know it, check out what’s been found so far at the Echoing The Sound forums.
Basically, Nine Inch Nails in cooperation with a company called 42 Entertainment have created what is knows as an ARG (Alternate Reality Game). It’s a game in real life, being played by real people from all over the world, using the Internet as the collective meeting place. This game revolves around the USA 15 years into the future, our year 2022, their year 0000. The United States have turned into a totalitarian state where its citizens are being drugged through their drinking water, and books, music and culture has been banned for being immoral. Voting and democracy has been done away with. New Evangelicals have all but taken power over the entire country. Needless to say, it’s a rather bleak future Trent Reznor is painting through both this game and his new album.
Another cool thing is that several of the songs off the new record have already been leaked. What? This happens all the time, you say? Not like this. You see, it’s Trent himself leaking the songs through the ARG, by leaving USB memory sticks in bathroom stalls at concerts or dropping phone numbers to answering machines that, when called, play the songs together with creepy recordings of people from the future.
I’m completely wrapped up in this thing. It’s hands down the coolest PR stunt I have ever heard about. This is what makes me want to keep buying music, this is what makes it worth it. Record labels and media moguls can cram their “content” up their bloated asses, because I will never be the good little consumer they want me to be. Not with bands like Nine Inch Nails around.
They make it worth fighting this fight.
Yeah, so today I’ve been listening to my teacher shovel through a stack of Linux questions. They’re all part of a LPIC Linux certificate I’m supposed to take as a part of my eduation, but seriously, these questions were out-of-date years ago. Stuff about default settings in the 2.2 kernel, how to configure an XFree86 2.0 X-server and generally stupid questions about Red Hat-specific configurations. This is 2007, not 1997. Red Hat isn’t even the king of the hill anymore, with Novell, SUSE and Ubuntu all coming up from behind. What the hell is the point in taking a certificate in something that was old news even when I first heard of Linux at all? I don’t get it…
In other news, I moved Endemoniada.org back to my old server, since it doesn’t seem likely that the new one is going to get fixed anytime soon. So, here it is. I assume the DNS cache has updated, or you wouldn’t be seeing this. Awesome. Now just to rebuild the entire site that I can no longer access on the “new” server…