You may have been wondering what's up with the headspace lately. Let me assure you, for what it's worth, that I am still alive and everything is resonably fine. I have, for whatever reason, felt really unmotivated to do an update of late. I apologize. I am going to try and get back on track.

I have just finished Paolo Coehlo's "The Alchemist". I feel a little cheesy recommending this unpretentious little book but I can't help but think that it deserves it. Some brief notes about the book: First, it is simply written and very readable. You should be able to polish it off in a couple of hours. Secondly, it talks about one the topics I so often like to harp on: pursuing your dreams. I wish my ramblings did the wonderful job of explaining my thoughts on this topic that Coehlo does with his little tale. If you are bored one day go pick it up. If nothing else it's a nice little story. Thank you, MDA, for a great tip.

It seems, lately, that I have let this huge communication gap grow up between a handful of my good friends and I. It's weird. I'm bad about keeping in touch with people to begin with but this is a new problem. Somehow I have managed to say the wrong things at the wrong times to these people and it's like a bridge collapsed. It never dawns on me that I might have screwed up until a couple of weeks with no communication have passed and suddenly it's very hard to reopen the channels. I dunno. I need to figure out what's going on. If you are one of those people, I'm sorry. I meant no harm. Please tell me what I can do to reconnect. If you've got time, set that tone to synch... tap in a code.

You know? It's weird what a hard problem honest communication seems to be for me. It's soooo easy for me to just tell people what I think they want to hear. Must... fight... Maybe I can blame my mother? ;)

Extra

My musical recommendation for today is Nasa's "In-Sha-Allah". It's a bear to find and is very, very eighties but strangely enjoyable nonetheless. Poke around for it. The combination of lyrics, instrumentation, and composition in this album just has to be heard to be believed. Very odd stuff.

I wish I could show you all the work we've been doing on the university's soon to be unveiled portal. It is coming together surprisingly well, I must say.

Tommorrow, I think I will start work on a few modifications to the headspace CGIs. Bear with me if you can't load some of the pages for a while.

I have been marvelling at ICQ today. What started as an innocent little IM program (in fact, the very program that defined that label) has become, as such products are wont, a huge piece of bloatware. It not only sends and receives messages (most of the time) but it can also check your mail, make little post-it (tm) notes, and manage a todo list. Glah... I just want to send messages to my friends.

Peace and Love.

Links

98lite
If you run Win98 and DONT use IE you need this program. It works wonders with the overly bloat-a-licious Win98 install. Burn, IE, burn!
You shut your mouth... How can you say, I go about things the wrong way? I am Human and I need to be loved... Just like everybody else does
m4dd4wg
NASA
Gemm.com is really good for finding out of print records. Its a marketplace for itty-bitty used record stores, so there's a lot of High Fidelity style obscurantist boutiques offering records. It can also be quite expensive. I recommend buying directly from the store, if possible.

This is what they have for the late great eighties band NAS A
loophole
gemm
Wow. Great site. Thanks :)
m4dd4wg
Aimster
Speaking of ICQ, do any y'all use Aimster, I can't figure out where to download the client, let alone use it. There was a feature on it in last week's Inside magazine, so it seems like a good way to f*** the culture industry!