Birdland…

A week of messing around with the Ubuntu Breezy Badger Preview version 5.10, I’m back to PCLinuxOS. Something about this operating system is really addictive. Probably it’s because it’s just so perfect for desktop use. You pretty much have all the software for home computing that you ever need. Even if previously it was just to avoid using a Windows I used a GNU/Linux operating system, with PCLinuxOS, it’s the ease of use and features that easily surpasses an XP’s. Meanwhile, I guess I’d keep the Ubuntu as the GNOME desktop for my experimentations.

Site update: I deleted the previous 5 or 6 posts, published thru Drivel (a blog posting client) while I was testing it on the Ubuntu Preview release. PCLinuxOS doesnt have this software in it’s repository, yet.

I listened to a lot of Coldplay last night and this afternoon… for the first time. Even tho I’ve seen a couple of their videos on TV, I didn’t have any of their albums. I liked what all I heard, unlike Travis which I had to shut after a couple of songs. Funny how Jo-so-fine said the same thing last night on how I might like Coldplay but not Travis… But I guess Ima check em out later sometime… to see what they are all about as well. Right now, my amaroK plays Patti Smith. Yea I only have her Horses, and I like it a lot!

Anyway I re-registered with Last.fm! I also updated this template with a link to my profile there. You might notice it in the right pane.

See what Last.Fm (powered by Audioscrobbler) basically does is, it exports each and every song I listen to in my mediaplayer (i.e. amaroK) to my home page (provided, of course I’m connected to the Internet). So anyone who’s curious what the hell I’m listening to or was listening to the last time, can check it out from this site… Pretty soon once the site gets sufficient information regarding what I listen to it’d arrange things around as my most played, favorites, and stuff like that.

However, the best part I liked is… unlike for other media players u have to download a plugin from their site and configure/install it to broadcast the song lists (or whatever they call it), amaroK has the thing inbuilt. So all I basically had to do was register my account and enter my user name and password in amaroK for it to start broadcasting the information.

Anyway, I gotta go… Adios!!

Drivel testing…

test begins…..Ok so here I am working on this software called Drivel… it’s something that allows you to create and edit posts for online journals… Makes sense? Guess so! Anyway so it’s time for Drivel testing again! And I’m sure the headline wont work… but I’m wondering what it look like….. test ends.

P.S. It seems to support html tag hightlighting which is an added bonus I’m guessing, i.e. if I really start using this to publish in this site, rather than logging thru blogger.com. I mean you gotta admit logging in and goin thru all the home page/compose page crap is a lot of headache.

P.P.S. Headlines work when I choose Atom thingy while loggin in instead of the blogger thingy. hmmm…

Nevermind…

Listening to Amused to Death as I type. For the last few times, somehow none of em are coming up on this site cuz I dont feel like goin thru it to edit the typos out! I guess I generally have more typos than a regular person cuz I’m also utterly absent minded. I was tagged as ‘Lost’ in my first work place, before being tagged ‘hostile’ in the next one. Tho people still continue to complain in my 3rd work place that I’m always lost, probably thinking about somethin else.

I love this part where Roger says

God wants crusade

God wants jihad

God wants good

God wants bad.

I guess I’m always lost, cuz nothing much interests me in this world, except for a couple of things that I’m more or less obsessed with and maybe when they claim I’m lost, I might be lost in my world of obsessions. Which I again guess is cool, so I never have bothered to take their complains in a negative way.

And the Germans killed the Jews

The Jews killed the Arabs

And the Arabs killed the hostages

And that is the news

Anyway… I guess when I’m not lost, I’m bored. So I am actually happy when I’m lost.

Can’t you see it all makes perfect sense

Expressed in dollars and cents,

Pound, shillings and pence

Can’t you see it all makes perfect sense?

I guess only Roger Waters can write such brilliant stuff… Amused to Death is one album I’ve found that’s too hard to describe to people, that I’ve stopped for good. You simply cant put the lyrics for people to read, cuz they simply wont make sense…. You can’t play them the music, as it’s no way near catchy enough to grab them instantly. This one needs that peaceful environment, and a number of listenings to actually grab you. Probably thats why it was a major flop, cuz no one in the 90s and now seem to have the time to let someone/ something grab you anymore!

But no matter what they claim Amused to Death is the most intelligent album of the century. Simply because it’s about us, the common people, how we are treated and what we’re feed on. Does that make sense? Makes to me. Others can go fuck themselves if it doesn’t!

Moslem or Christian, Mollah or Pope

Preacher or Poet who was it that wrote

Give any one species too much rope

And they’d fuck it up.

It’s funny how everywhere I look I see people who are so much up to putting up something fake to impress the next person. What they don’t get is it makes them rather unimpressive if you are sane enough to look through their pretense. And it’s even funny how most of the people are quite happy to ignore that, especially if it’s a bimbo.

Anyway, lately I guess I’ve hit the limit of being the most cheesed off with myself. Everything around seems so mundane that I can go ahead and shoot 10 random people everyday on the road or anywhere else, whom I may think are intolerably irritating. Or probably shooting myself on one leg might turn it a bit interesting for me. But then only if I had a gun. Probably these are the times when I think even Kurt Cobain made a lot of sense as to what he wrote and sang and did to himself. After all it was all a matter of him presenting his boredom to the world. Imagine making money out of that aswell?

Polly says her back hurts

Maybe she’s just as bored as me

She caught me off my guard

it Amazes me, the will of instinct

I look at the people say who run the tuxmachines website, or who write software like amaroK or customize a desktop operating systems as good as PCLinuxOS and that makes me wonder how can I ever get such an interesting life. I can literally do anything to have something that.

I guess when you are confused as to what path you should take to achieve what you want is what makes oneself kill the fucked up self at the age of 27. That leaves me another 3 years and 3 months.

Oh well… whatever… never mind! Adios!!

*** ed – Sept. 15: *** This post was probably saved as a draft, my net got bonker when I tried to upload it a week ago… Today testing with Drivel a Web Log software, published it when I clicked to see what the heck it is…. Funny thing is I didnt kno it saved it as draf when I was trying to publish it or did I click on the draft botton then? *** ed-end ***