31 October, 2006

What a shocker of a day. I can only assume it was my day to deal with the World’s negative bits and as I’ve had a good run over the last few weeks maybe that is a fair deal. Didn’t reduce the impact of the day though. Lots of small things added up and people seemed to be niggly for some reason. It was weird and has reduced the value of some of my hard work at school. Sucks to the World, hopefully tomorrow is a touch better.

I have made an upgrade at home to Ubuntu’s Edgy Eft distribution. For a few days I was nervous as it blew away my monitorsettings and I spent time learning all about xorg.conf through the commandline. It has all pretty much been sorted which is somewhat gratifying as I had only a vague idea what I was doing and have learned a lot throughout the process. I am also amazed at how confident I am that fixes will appear over time to continuously solve small issues. There’s something about knowing you’re not alone in the issues and that others are working on solutions. I have decided to include a distribution upgrade as part of next years Computing College course…in fact Linux has just stepped into a very central role in the course with a lot of learning revolving around it. I’m quite chuffed about that.

My last comment for the day is on the increasing focus on useless, unproductive work. Surely, with the way things are headed and the progressively nearing changes (read downsizing) to our lifestyles we should be putting big emphasis on creative problem solving and technical production skills to support the creativity. Surely. Instead we propose closing down workshops in schools, move product development off shore, encourage young people to “get into game design ‘cos it’s a growing industry” and generally go down very dangerous paths. I hope we wake up before it gets too painful.

Sucks to the World, hopefully tomorrow is a touch better.