I was reading up on one of my favorite Beatles songs, A Day in the Life, when I came across this quote.

_What I did there was to write, at the beginning of the twenty-four bars, the lowest possible note for each of the instruments in the orchestra. At the end of the

twenty-four bars, I wrote the highest note each instrument could reach that was near a chord of E major. Then I put a squiggly line right through the twenty-four bars,

with reference points to tell them roughly what note they should have reached during each bar… Of course, they all looked at me as though I were completely mad._

-George Martin

If you listen to the song, that's pretty much what it sounds like, and it doesn't sound particularly good, but it is interesting and very Beatles.

I <3 Beatles.

Today I was eating in a little fast food place across the street from a major hospital in our city. While enjoying my dinner it occurred to me that of all the places to have a sudden illness, this would be it, you have 30 nurses getting their coffees and you're within 100 meters of the hospital.

Comforting.

It''s been a month since my last update, sorry.

Still nothing elaborate, but basically:

I want to blog about anything and everything, BUT I want to use the new version of joleblog but it's not stable or complete enough. In order to stabilize I would need to spend a lot of time working on it, but I have no time for that, which makes me want to blog. Thus, it becomes a vicious cycle.

But hopefully this summer things will simmer down a bit, there won't be any surprise Drama technical events or insane exams to pray through, and I might be able to sit down and code joleblog (assuming I have time when I'm working.)

There are a few little realizations I have had in the past month though.

1. I really enjoy tech theatre, sound, and video. I've been doing a lot of it, and never have I enjoyed myself so much as these past few weeks doing shows and planning videos. I love working with equipment.
2. Web Design might not be for me. I entered a web design competition, which I didn't win, (I was up against people who actually have taken web design courses and are two years older than me) but I still found myself wanting to be doing the event next door: video production. I didn't really enjoy doing all the web design.
3. I have accepted my geekdom more than ever. After reading several articles online about "how to date a geek guy" (google it), I have a renewed sense of self-respect. At times I'll feel a bit lonely or feel like maybe I should try to be less of a geek but when the day wraps up I'll still be back here writing joleblog or or listening to Security Now! and absorbing all that geeky stuff. I have accepted that I suppose, and am enjoying the thought that someday someone else might appreciate me for my geekiness.

In case you didn't catch the first part, joleblog development has been suspended temporarily (although I admit I wanted to suspend it permanently.) Goals have been shifted though. The goal now is :

• Learn more about PHP, AJAX, and programming
• Have a cute little blog system for my own website
• Maybe have something to show people who are interested in my work

I've given up on the idea that somehow it'll be this fabulous efficient blogging system, and that I will use it for all my clients. No. It will never be stable enough for that, and will never be secure enough for that. We'll leave that to textpattern, which I have begun to reuse as my main CMS control for any new clients.

See you soon!

Jolé

I've been getting more and more invitations to Facebook these days, and quite frankly I'm sick of it.

I wouldn't mind getting one to see what it's like, compare it to other services, and see what this supposed great thing is all about.

But in general, what I find is that any social networking web application ends up being a remash of the Internet. Everyone begins to develop this irritating habit of sending every message by their favorite social networking messaging service. If you had friends on Nexopia, Facebook, MySpace, you would have to check three different websites PLUS anything else you might be using (or your friends want you to use.)

The fact is, it's a waste of time. I maintain a decent website, with my pictures and what not, and I'm happy with it. I don't feel pressured to release more personal information that I want to, and there's no pressure to post pictures of myself or any of that.

But it all comes down to practicality for me. Why should I maintain a Nexopia, MySpace, and Facebook profile IN ADDITION to a website? Why should I check my "messages" on three different services PLUS my email, of which some people posses multiple. Even then though, there's a major difference here.

In the IM world, most people don't have a problem if they have friends on all different services, because there are tons of clients that do all of them at once. But when it comes to web services, there's no easy way to unite them.

Perhaps that should be a new Web 2.0 project.

Bickr

_Bickr brings all the bicker and banter of all your ridiculous social networking services into one easy to manage website! Check messages, update profiles, all at the same time!_

So join me, in rejuvenating the world of email and building your own website instead of letting poorly designed MySpace and Facebook profiles take over the Internet. Only check your email, don’t accept Facebook invites.

What has been happening?

• Insanely busy with some school plays I have been tech'ing
• Insanely busy with school
• joleblog has come a long way, with an awesome new UI, much more structured code, and wiki-style markup
• This summer looks really awesome, I may be working for a local web startup
• QLab is amazing

That's all for now, I'll keep you posted when jb.8 is stable enough, and in the meantime, love the fact that jolephoto while AHTR is under maintenance! Hurray for dedicated server!

Oh, and sorry I've had no pictures, work comes first, hopefully I get the chance to get out and shoot now that spring has sprung!