holy sweet wads of something... this life is insane. why is it that i always bite off more than i can chew. i'm near ulcer stage now looking at my todo lists. sorry to complain, but man this sucks.
i got don chafer's (of waterdeep) cd "you were at the time for love". talk about a good music. i didn't know it could be done that well. :) true artistry of the soul.
speaking of music, would one have to be absolutely crazy to enter the music distribution market? i mean, these big, evil, etc recording companies surely will do something bad to anyone who threatens them (legitimally or not). not that it matters what i want to do in my free time because i have NO free time anymore. i have come to the realization that iowa state is not only a money sucking machine but a time sucking machine as well. classes start in a week and i'm so unprepared i'm about to crack and smoke it. and working for iowa state is no better either. i'm finally begining to tire of getting paid magnitudes less than what i'm worth to the college of engineering. the flexibility and fun that once attracted to me to the "perfect campus job" are begining to dull. cheap expletives (not the people i directly work for but the unversity in gerneal). back to not-complaining...
for the first time in a long time, politics are becoming remotely interesting to me. i am finding myself constantly watching the coverage. i think that the widespread support of nader among the computing crowds is a bit scary. a nice guy, yeah, but some of his ideas are more off than my golf game.
more complaining... (stop reading now if you can't bear this terrible diary entry <grin>) just noticed that someone started a freenet-client-in-mozilla project (wfw). i had that idea about 3 months ago and was just moments away from starting in on it. just kinda pissed that someone beat me to the punch. but they've just got the idea, and NO CODE! that kinda irritates me a bit.
oh well, i'm not sure i am completely *in* to freenet anyway, at least as far as the very intense focus on complete anonymity goes. i agree that anonymity is needed, and even supercedes all other rights. but i just don't think that i care all that much about that aspect of freent, as needed as it may be. however, i am fascinated by the dynamic nature of data storage incorporated in freenet. you get tremendous gains in performance and reliability. it would be nice to have a generic comodity protocol for doing this. and probably without freenet's anon features just to avoid controversy and gain widespread acceptance. i am just now begining to scour the net in search of "better" solutions than freenet provides in this area. i think that sgi just recently released a file system that sorta-kinda does this. and i also think that a network file system like coda or intermezzo would do this too. but i'm talking out of my ignorance now. anyone willing to provide clues? thanks.