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I am completely baffled by this. What the hell, LAPD..?
Reminds me of Eric Arthur Blair’s work…
Ironically, “Resistance” by Muse comes on as I’m writing this. Here’s an excerpt from the song:
If we live a life in fear
I’ll wait a thousand years
just to see you smile againKill your prayers for love and peace
You’ll wake the thought police
we can’t hide the truth inside
Oh look, it’s 09/09/09, 09:09 now. Last day with single digits for quite a while!
I didn’t know Erik, but after reading his critique of XML and one of his emails, I’m sure I would’ve liked to.
if you know what other people should have done in the past, you never have any clue what you or anyone else ought to do in the future, and if you are concerned with what you yourself ought to do in the future, you generally leave other people alone to figure out what they ought to do in the future, too.
people who partition the world population into “the good” and “the bad” always make the mistake of believing that they fall into the “the good” partition.
I keep telling people that you only really grow up and become a human being (as opposed to a mere animal) when you realize that most of what you think and almost all you feel is wrong.
Update: More by Erik Naggum.
The main reason I discontinued many of my other blogging projects and re-made PatrickMylund.com was that the other sites were taking up way too much of my time, and their content wasn’t really that great — I had chosen technology news as the focus, so you can imagine. There wasn’t a lot that you hadn’t already seen 700 other places, and half of my time was spent trying to be the first to hit the button when X version of Y software was released. Boring, really.
There were, however, a few good posts that would fit on here nicely — and when I received a notice about expiration of one of my old domains, Sheeped.com, I took the time to transfer some of them to PatrickMylund.com. If you’re wondering why the sidebar now links back to 2006, this is why.
The posts are:
- How I Taught Myself Programming by Making a Game
- How To: Set Up Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS LAMP Server
- Sick of Your Slow Internet Connection? OpenDNS Solves!
Enjoy!
Here we are — the first post on the new PatrickMylund.com. A mission statement, if you will. In a few years, this is the post I want to look back at and smile (or laugh) at what I’ve “accomplished”. Of course, this is also a chance for me to introduce myself and expand on what this website is about.
As you’ve undoubtedly deduced, my name is Patrick. I’m 20 years old at the time of writing, and I was born and raised in the Kingdom of Denmark, a small country bordering Germany as well as the Baltic and North seas.
I’ve always had a keen interest in computers and technology, from the Atari console in the Officer’s Lounge of a Maersk ship I had the opportunity to travel around the world on at the age of 4, to the family PC, an IBM Aptiva, at which I spent a lot of my time teaching myself such “programming languages” as MS-Batch and QBasic. Later I managed to install Red Hat Linux 3.0 (much to the remaining family’s dismay) and moved on to learning C. At age 11 I launched my first (albeit simple) text-based roleplaying game programmed in C.
This website serves as my outlet for writing about whatever happens to be on my mind. I’m not restricting myself to a particular niche, although I suspect the majority of my articles will concern technology in some fashion, as that is what I’m most passionate about. If you think of yourself as a computer nerd, and you enjoy spending your spare time fiddling with things related to computers and technology in general, chances are you’ll like a good deal of my rants.
One thing this blog will not be is your everyday run-at-the-mill tech news echo-blog. There are plenty of those out there, all reporting the same stories, ten times a day, every day. I’ve tried running one before, and I found it daunting and boring. I don’t want to tell you when every single version of X software is released, there are plenty of blogs and social news sites that will. I want my posts to have substance and an expiration date further than a few weeks into the future — basically, I want them to be as timeless as is possible when writing about things that are subject to Moore’s Law.
Let’s see if I can keep my word!
