Wow, it’s been awhile since I’ve updated this blog. Mostly because it’s easier to tweet, but also I haven’t had anything to blog about…
Until I remembered the potential of Google in terms of sociology studies. I’ll be taking a sociology class this semester as it’s something that I’ve always wanted to study. Then I was inspired by this tweet:
The link can be found here and it really does show the difference in men and women and what they expect out of relationships. But I decided to take it one step further and analyze what people in general ask the web for advice, so I started with some pretty generic questions, the first being “How can I…?” and these were the results:
What’s interesting to me that the top result is “How can I keep from singing lyrics?” and a slight variation in the question is featured later. What does this say about our culture? Clearly there is a creativity in people that is shunned in some circles. When did this become frowned upon?
Moving on, the next question was “How should I…?”
The top results for this question has to do with hair. As a culture, a hairstyle can help define who we are as a person. It’s interesting that the web has become the source of advice in such matters. Typically a barber or hair stylist has helped out in making this decision, perhaps turn to the web as to not waste time when they do get their haircut.
The next question posed was “How often should I…?” and these were the results
Interestingly, the number of responses were equal in terms of human and canine maintenance. This comes as no surprise given how vain some people can be about themselves or their pets. Overall these results were par for the course.
The last question I posed was “Where should I…?”
I hope you have enjoyed this post, feel free to comment with your finds!
Haven’t posted in awhile, I’ve been busy working on an Ubuntu server named Squiggle. Squiggle is currently running Drupal, and a few monitoring/administration apps. The plan is to start backing up our Administrative server, and then transfer the duties to Squiggle to be the PDC as well as our internal Drupal server.
I met a few people at the Acadiana Open Source meeting the other night and one of the guys recommended I check out this site: http://drupaltherapy.com
They have a lot of great resources that I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of. Of course Google is also an amazing tool for research and information gathering. I can’t forget to mention Kris Wotipka and Adam Melancon who have been incredibly helpful in getting the server online, much props guys.
What else? Still learning Visual Basic, and a bit of general computer troubleshooting in school. AT&T should be shipping me my DSL modem very soon (ie Tomorrow!) so I’ll have internet at the house again…That’s all for now, if I think of anything else I’ll edit the post.
In short, nowhere new. Just school and work, haven’t had a lot to blog about. ACL was a blast, big props to Chris H. for letting me crash at his place in Austin I had waaay too much fun.
Today was CampFiber here in LFT, in short I think it was a success and I really hope to see more events like it in the near future. It almost inspired me to become a developer but I think I’d be showing up a little late to the party with little to offer. I trust the local brains to do what’s right for the community. If it looks like they’re not going in the direction they should be I’d step in but I doubt it.
To see Terry Huval conversing with local developers about potential uses of the fiber network is pretty inspiring to me. You don’t see that kind of thing normally. Certainly Verizon would never send their CEO and members of the team to some town in South Louisiana to talk about settop boxes, fiber rollout, etc. So that in itself was pretty cool. It was also cool to see developers share their applications and talk about the industry as it exists now and will be in the future.
Didn’t really meet too many new people, a couple on twitter but I never got as far as to saying Hello. Had to jet out early, work and such, but very inspirational nonetheless, props to Geoff Daily, Abacus, and LUS for putting it on.
So it’s been awhile since I’ve posted…Sorry…Haven’t had much to write about.
I started to write about Cafe Culture a couple weeks ago, but I haven’t been inspired to finish it.
School starts tomorrow, work has been going well, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Linux on MySQL, PHP, and other web technologies. I’m currently alpha testing PHPMotion (youtube clone) on the server right now. FFMPEG is giving me some problems so uploading of videos isn’t working too well. It’s also not loading all of the images correctly so I’ll have to work on that this week.
Edit: I started this post much earlier than when I’m posting it, so now it’s like sunday evening thoughts…So overall life is good, can’t complain, just working and now starting school again. Anywho I’ll update this again later…
