Glass of Water's Journal: my room

my home is my room. my apartment is one room big. what does this have to do with computers? nothing. fuc k you.

i threw out a lot of my stuff. i got rid of boxes full of stuff. someday i may remember that stuff and want it, but mostly i did not even know i had it in the first place. either that, or it brought back bad memories. i have a lot of those.

now the opposite is happening. in my newly empty roompartment i am letting the shit pile up. little shit. coffee cup lids, full ashtrays, beer cans, scraps of paper, the dishes. my kitchen counter has a tower of beercans right now, and a paper bag. it is comforting. it reminds me that i am concentrating on the important. i am keeping my nose to the grindstone.

here is another measure of how well i am focusing: i have not read this site in a few days. actually, not since last friday. i have been too busy doing other shit, but i havev been right here on the computer, with /. a short while away.

that is called a full life. it is good. it is good to be busy in this way. soon, my semester will start up againn and i will be busy in the other way. i will then maybe distract myself with this place again.

here's something else i was thinking of:
some of my colleagues came up with a great project last semester. it's a p2p ide. looked at another way, it's an IM client with a built-in IDE, where one user can take control of the document in the editor and edit while the others see the changes in real time on their screens.

that is some serious groupware shit. similar to groove which is cool, though totally ms specific, so it sucks in the end.

decentralized groupware is the future. the friendnet is decentralized groupware. like outlook, and like a file server, without the file server or the exchange server.

porridge with honey.

we're all lookin fwd to the FriendNet

[schmaltz]

as RIAA's litigious-assedness is gonna probably get the broadband ISPs to start blocking or something.

Then again, I saw an article which said RIAA's considering proposing a "sin tax" of sorts, slapping a pirate media fee on the (the already high-priced) broadband accounts. The rationale being that broadband's preferred use is for filetrading. Brings to mind the fees on certain other blank media.

Who's the pirate now, hmm?

Re:we're all lookin fwd to the FriendNet

[Glass of Water]

chicken fat,

i wonder how many of us will drop broadband if we can't trade files. probably depends on how this blocking is set up. if i can't test the friendnet, or if i have a problem uploading a large file to somewhere, then i'll drop the $60USD/month. then again, if they just plock popular p2p ports, and filter out content that is an unscrambled music file, it will be easy to circumvent.

then again, i don't really download that many files. i have so many already! maybe i look for 5 or 6 files a week.

you?