An Evil Piece of Technology

In which the author talks about his contempt for computers.

The problem with blogging is that when I have something interesting to blog, I don't have the time to write about it or I can't get my hands on a computer.

I had another dream I wanted to blog about it. But by the time I got my chance to write about it, I have forget what it was that I wanted to blog about. It does not matter. Nothing matters really.

I have been busy with work. I don't like talking about my work. It isn't fun and it's such a tedious bore. From my observations, I find people to have become enslaved to computers.

Computers promised to usher us into a new era but looking at it today, it had one deceiving goal from the very beginning; to enslave us.

Just ask yourself how many hours do you spent using the computer?

I spent at least half a day in front of my computer and it is starting to make me unhappy. I feel as though I am living for my computer. I am not living my life nor am I doing the things I wanted to do. I regret to inform myself that computers have made my live utterly meaningless. Yet I sit here writing this blog entry on my computer.

Ironic.

I ask myself when was the last time I was truly content. In 1992 I got my first computer and without me realizing then I been on a path of Self decline. I am so ashamed that I have spend more time in front of my computer than socializing with others. All i got for my efforts was people came to know I was pretty darn good with computers but that was it.

Funny my life is such a screw up now. Things which I hated, I have come to love, and things which I thought I loved, I am hating. I never liked to read or run. but this year alone I have read more books and ran more than all my years put together. I used to watch soccer feverishly and stay up late to watch Monday Night Nitro reruns at the wee hours of the morning but these days I hardly bring myself to watch soccer or pro wrestling.

All I wanted to say is computers are here to stay and they are an evil piece of technology invented to make make our petty lives even more meaningless.

Back It Up

Concerning the reliability of backups.

Friday, I was running late for my interview. The representative of the company had requested me to bring softcopies and as well as hardcopies of my work for the interview. But to my horror when I turned on my desktop computer to retrieve my work files, the computer failed to boot up. I frantically tried to resolve this issue. But I was running late for my interview.

I just grabbed my printed portfolio, my transcripts and two cds of my previous animations, Akiro and the Sassy Old Man, and left for the interview leaving my table in a huge mess.

Thursday, the day before, I took the time to troubleshoot my desktop computer. I reinstalled the OS, drivers and to transferred all my data from my laptop to the computer. The data was to serve as a backup. All was fine till Friday.

It is to be noted; I made a huge error in my judgment. After copying the files over I deleted the files just to save a few gigs of space on my laptop.

Had I not done this I would have simply burned all the data from my laptop rather and wasting my time trying to retrieve the files from my desktop computer.

Friday evening, coming back from my interview, I decided to troubleshoot my computer again. I realised that my RAM chip had overheated. I simply took it out and that resolved the issue. Sometimes I wonder if technology will ever be reliable.

Now I have learned an important lesson. Make multiple backups and do not put all your data into one place. And if you really need to put your backups in one location, make sure you do not erase your source files because you might never know when your backup might fail.

Life was so much fun and simpler before I met technology.