May 29, 2007 by phillip.

Maybe it was watching Star Trek when I was a kid and realized that the whole world came together when we realized that their were other people out there in space. Maybe it was the first time I looked at an ant hill and saw them all bringing food back so that they could split it up and save it till later. Maybe it was being 4 years old and my sister hoisting me up to go into the cookie jar on the shelf so we could get some cookies.

I don’t know what it is but I love people working together. Maybe that’s why I love seeing more wireless access points around town that are wide open. Open source software like Firefox, Linux, Apache webserver, and Wordpress (that I’m using right now to write this blog). Everybody helps write this software and makes it free to others. BRILLIANT!!!
Share some wireless today for your fellow man today. I might to download some directions in your neighborhood until I get my navigation system one of these days.

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May 29, 2007 by phillip.

My post today is inspired by a documentary I was watching this weekend. I’m not a big fan of nostalgic cars but a show was on about muscle cars from the 70’s. This made me think. Those cars were going faster than a lot of the street legal cars today. How could this be? Well, due to the gas crisis they faded away like dinosaurs in favor of economy cars.

This made me think about old computers. People throw away more computers that can do everything they want them to do and more. I have so many computers that I’ve taken everything off of and stripped and made perfectly usable machines using Linux instead of Windows or even just stripping Windows down. All the kids in my neighborhood and in my family come over and I’ll set up a lot of computers for holidays so everyone can get on their Myspace pages or network video games. The problem is that now everyone thinks I’m super rich and can spare computers. The “He has so many and he can’t spare us one?” look comes just before the question.

I’m an extremely giving person with my time, money, and company but this causes a problem at times. I have extra computers but they come with a disclaimer. “This computer is a little slow, low on hard drive space, etc.” People don’t listen to disclaimers, though. Every time, within a couple weeks or so I’ll get, “This one’s slow. It needs this. It needs that. It won’t play this game.” All of which I already know, but people’s requirements are different when they just want something to get on the internet with, write some papers, and balance their checkbook. The next thing you know, you’re the rich snob that doesn’t really care about them.
I can make anything do almost anything but at what cost to my reputation? If you’re one of these people, I want to help you. I really really do. However, I don’t have a spare anything. I don’t have any spare pieces that I’ll be required to service forever. Any spare computers that won’t play the newest 3D games. I don’t have a spare anything.

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