Dave Kellam

Leave it to compaq to actually post an faq message explaining the any key.

Been thinking a lot recently about the future, what I want to do with my life. I think in recent weeks i’ve discovered that computer science isn’t one of things i want to do. It’s not that it’s really that hard, I guess I just don’t like programming. It’s probably good to figure something like this out now, rather than 2 or 3 years from now. At any rate, it’s a lot easier to change my major and what I want to do during my first year. I think I might head into economics, not entirely sure at this point. I might try taking some english courses or history courses next year, so I can start doing some real writing again.

Went and saw traffic saturday night. It was an impressive movie but I’m not sure if it would be up for an oscar nomination in a year with better movies. However Benicio Del Toro deserves all the credit he’s been getting, he did a great job acting in the movie. I spent yesterday at golden words, working on this weeks issue of the paper. It was a lot of fun, I was there until about 2am, the latest I have ever stayed. I was helping out with the layout, it looks pretty cool.

The weather is absolute shit today, you really don’t want to bother going outside. Lots of snow and wind and blowing. Time to work on my algebra and computer assignments and study for an algebra midterm. At least the algebra assignment is a chunk of the studying for the midterm.

Finished off the economics assignment, took a little bit longer than i expected this morning to get the final product done, had something like 25 graphs on the bloody thing. Have some more studying to do this aft for my psych midterm. I’ll be functioning on a low amount of sleep, but it won’t matter too much because i will have been awake for long enough. I had an insane caffine buzz last night around 2 in the morning, you’re supposed to put level teaspoons in the cup, not heaping. Time for some more work.

A good article over at cnet that explains a bit about overclocking and why people do it. It’s addictive anyway and the truth is that a lot of the time you don’t really need that extra speed, it is just to be a hardcore geek.

Ahead lies a day of working on my economics assignment due tomorrow and studying for my psychology midterm tomorrow evening. The word of the day is propensity: the ability to or the capacity towards. It came up in my econ assignment, I didn’t even know it was a real word. It was used in the context marginal propensity to save.

Beyond that, I tried to update conform last night, but for some reason i couldn’t access the ftp. I managed to get onto it this afternoon and get it updated. Suffocate is hosted on dreamhost, so am I, and they’re in the process of transfering the sites from one set of servers to another. The goal is increased stability and services, I was moved in mid-december. The transitional phase isn’t perfect, so there can be some expected glitches in the suffocate site over the coming days.

Did some playing around in photoshop last night. A friend I went to highschool with is working on some sort of publication here at queens and asked me to make something because they were lacking in artistic type images. It’s not really that artsy, no real thought put into it or imagery behind it, more of a lets go through the hardrive and just put a bunch of stuff into it. I posted it up in random. There are two versions, the original was in , the other was desaturated and given a bit of an old school tinge.

I have the computer midterm in half an hour. All these java bits and pieces floating about in my head, various data structures and whatnot. At this point I think how I do really depends on what they put on the exam. Last night I finally started to grasp complexity and summation notation, so I’m hoping that knowledge has stuck in my head and will prove useful.

There’s a good read over at slashdot concerning RIAA quotes about losing money this year due to napster. It is pirated music and i guess it’s probably illegal, but how can they claim that music swapping is cutting into their profits when they’re total revenue is increasing every year?

The world is changing, the internet is changing, it’s quite the world that we live in these days. A constant state of flux. There’s talk of the dot-com collapse, internet start-up’s bombing out, making no money. The internet started out as a medium for communication and information sharing, maybe it’s heading back in that direction. Although I doubt corporations will shy away that easily. Currently, many of them don’t really have effective business models. A lot of the internet start-ups were using it as their sole source of income, and that income never appeared. It would be more effective if companies used the internet as an extension of their real world business or combined the two so they worked in tandem. Some of the companies that are pretending they have have a tandem business model are no longer using their real world company to it’s full extent, using it as a platform to draw attention to their internet business. Companies that are now seeing dwindling profits due to over-investment in the internet.

It seems like i’m painting a doom and gloom portrait of the internet, i’m not trying to do that, I love it. It’s more that if companies want to survive, they have some thinking to do. Many people have a social stance that’s very anti-corporate, myself included, but I think corporation are going to have to stay as part of the internet to help foster growth. They’re the ones that will be investing in the technology that makes the internet work. That’s enough, I have to get to bed and then wake up to write a bloody midterm.

And then there’s this that just confuses the hell out of me.

The joys of studying and procrastination. Java, the work of the devil. I have a computer mid-term tomorrow morning that I’m studying or not studying for at the moment. Hard to believe that i’ve already finished 75% of my first year of university.

Other things; i’ve been listening to a lot of older music the last few days and Apocalypse Now is going to be 53 minutes longer, a point of interest because I watched it recently. Been listening to things like Boston, The Rolling Stones, CCR, Simon and Garfunkel and the list goes on.