So I was reading about the firefox 1.0 launch...

here.
It really got me thinking. I don't want to be part of a huge software corporation (like microsoft). I want something small, intimate, like those guys at mozilla.org have. I like the idea of being a huge part of something like that, rather than just another cog in the wheel. Sure, it would be cool to work for Apple or Google or something, but I honestly think I'd have more fun if I start my own company or join someone else in starting something. Is that so wrong? I mean, I like software engineering and I like the idea of creating something that can genuinely improve peoples' lives. I'm not going to give that up for a higher salary. Now maybe I'm naive. I'm still in college, its possible. But I know one thing: I'm not going to work my ass off on something I don't like just to make more money. I think my Dad felt the same way, maybe. As an accountant, I know he interviewed with Arthur Anderson and probably other large accounting firms, but he didn't want that. He wanted to be part of something small and intimate. Like this. These guys a are small, close knit, but productive, group that have produced an innovative new software package for Mac and their office is a coffee shop. No, they don't pay rent. They meet every day, drink coffee all day, and work eight hours, right there in the coffee shop. The coffee shop people love them. I want to be part of something like that.

I'm back

This has been a long time coming. I make no promises on updating this, as I have never been able to keep it updated in the past, but at least now I feel a greater desire to update and create something that I like writing. And if anyone reads it and finds it interesting, then that's ok too. One thing is definitely different--my perspective on blogging. Before, I felt a need, an obligation even, to write whatever I was thinking/feeling and never press backspace and never censor myself. Well I can't do that, that's insane. So instead I will focus on writing what I want to write. Whatever I want.

There's a few things that I've wanted to do. I've wanted to create my own website and I've wanted to post all of my palm pictures online. Well, I plan to do the first one. It may just be on my VT filebox and you'll have to click on filenames, but that's still better than nothing. I don't have enough time or desire to write my own website and maintain it. Yes, right now I have some free time, but the semester just started and frankly I'm enjoying slacking off.

BTW, as far as pictures go, I highly recommend this fairly new software from Google called Picassa 2. If you've ever seen/used iPhoto for Mac, its something like that.

I think this blog is going to be something like the above comment. I waste WAY too much time scanning RSS feeds of news sites, blogs, photo blogs and http://del.icio.us (also highly recommended if you enjoy browsing random collections of links). It would be useful to myself, and hopefully others, if I post links to some of those pages that I find interesting. I will also continue, as I please, to post snippets of poetry, quotes, or basically whatever I want. I will update as frequently as I please, which I hope to be frequently.