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It feels like it hath been an eternity since I last blogged!

I'm gonna be an eagle!

I am no longer a teenager!  Yayyyy! Twenty is a strange age, me thinks. You’re no longer considered a ‘kid,’ but you’re also not considered an ‘adult.’ (Who wants to be one of those anyway?)  2010 has been good to me so far, let’s hope it continues to do so as I make a rather grand transition from my 2-year Community College to the much larger, 4-year University.

Oh man- I haven’t even applied yet, but I doubt that will be a problem seeing as it is a public school. I do believe I have tentively decided on Psychology as a major. I am also considering going into the counseling side of Psychology, as opposed to the scientific side. And when I say ‘counselor,’ I do not mean the kind that schedules your classes. I actually want to help people with psychological issues!

What else has been going on… Well, I’ve been traveling a bit. Spent a week with my grandma in tiny town of Dayton, WA, came home for a day, and then headed off on a 5-hour car ride to see my sister for the weekend. We had a grand ol’ time, what with an amazingly fatty and delicious dinner (steak, prawns, green beans, bread, crab/artichoke dip, yeahhh I’m going to Hell for gluttony), a bit much wine, way too much 1960’s music/dancing, and I even capped it all off with getting violently ill and having to puke into a large ziploc bag whilst riding home. All in all, ’twas a good weekend. I now have Fall Quarter off and have no idea what I’m going to do with my time. Get a job? Maybe. Apply for scholarships? Yes. Do homework and study for tests?

HELL TO THE NAW!

OH! I also cannot publish this blog without mentioning a very important matter which took place yesterday:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL JACKSON!

There, now you can properly hate me.

Peace out.

Hey.

Lately, I’ve been closely following the work that Google is doing with their new OS, called Chromium OS (as of now). Rather than explain what it is, I offer you this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QRO3gKj3qw

Now, as you can see this is a pretty cool idea. What got me thinking was, if everything is being done in read-only, so you don’t actually save stuff, obviously downloading will die completely. Since it is way tougher to cheat DRM and copying restrictions when you can’t copy the actual files, but are dependant on separate servers, this could possibly be the change in internet computing that the corporations that deal with games, music, movies etc. are all searching for. Imagine, if all your movies, your music and your games are streamed instead of saved and played, the aera of free stuff on the internet would die. The internet as the communism that it is would cease to exist.

Of course, it could go the other way, not pick up that much notice and slip by us as a pimple on the history of the internet. Personally, I think that Google has got a brilliant idea with their cloud-based OS, and I actually hope it takes off and people start designing stuff for it (Spotify, I’m looking at you to create an in-browser streaming site).

That’s all I want to let out of my head right now. Peace out, yo

Awesome playlist from Frøya Bar in Stavanger! Do yourself a favor and listen to this shit!

HErro!

So, I have good news. Apparently, I possess hacking  skills unlike anything you have ever heard of! Allow me to elaborate:

I have a mobile broadband internet connection. So i get my internet through a USB stick, and can use it anywhere. Alas, my connection also has a 10 Gb use limit, so if i go above this my speed gets severely limited, to the point where streaming and downloading is brought to a stop. I recently reached this point. What a nuisance!!

But fear not, because I devised a clever workaround! In a moment of uncanny wisdom, genious, and hacking skills unlike anything you have read about, I had an epiphany! And just as the thought popped into my head, I spent hours working on my brilliant hack.

Ladies and gentlemen, I unplugged my USB stick, and promptly reinserted it. And VOILA!

I am a genius!