Time Travelling to Different Time Zones

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

John F. Kennedy

I used to be a young, self-righteous, close-minded jerk. Now I’m a middle-aged self-righteous, close-minded jerk. I thought I changed for the better. I felt that I was above what I thought was morally wrong. I am more ethically right. More open-minded. No. I am SO not that. I seem have a love-hate relationship with myself.

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Google Gags Gums

Yeah, yeah.

Google.cn has just put a gag on it’s own program. The Chinese government wants to control the info. They want to “filter” it. It’s all over the freaking news/internet/newpaper/dog’s ass. 

Big deal. Yahoo and MSN did it. Didn’t hear as much as a whimper about it. Yet what they did was WORSE!

Yahoo gave up the “dissident” to the Chinese authorities. MSN brought down a blogsite because it was going up against the government.

I think Google.com did the right thing. “WTF??!!!,” you may be saying. First off, I don’t work for Google (though I wish I did). Second, I’d rather censor myself than feel guilty about sending someone to jail or pulling down their blog. How can there be a “SIN” when it don’t show up in your screens?

Google is a corporation ladies and gentlemen. They’re going to find ways to get the dough. If they need to “customize” the program it’s in their (and their shareholders’) prerogative to do so.
  tag: google.cn, tag: google.com, tag: google censor in China

The Blue Fish vs. the taorist

I am now part of the Blue Fish Network.

Check ‘em out. They’re a group of bloggers who’s out to network with others because they want to help each other out. Hey! Maybe you’d like to join us as well. You won’t be given any quotas and you’ll be using your own blog. How great is THAT!

You got nothing to lose and more blog-friends to gain. It’s a win-win situation. What you waiting for? tag: bluefish network, blog network

Destroy/Save the World By Being Me

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”

–Thomas A. Kempis– 

Who the fuck am I to tell others how they should be? How they should live, eat, breath, treat, and screw other prople.

I have done my share of righteous indignation, I was blind to my own limitations and stupidity. Other people had to adjust to MY needs. They had to change. There’s so many things these people should work at. If they did, the world  would spin peacefully.

MY world.

Inside MY head.

It’s time to look at myself. Rush back the camera. Re-focus on something else. ME. See the holes in my soul. Darkness in my heart. The dirt in my mind. The infection in my skin. The inapprorpiate size of my body parts.

I need to accept people as they are. They all seem to be screwed up and wrong at the same time. But so am I! I’ve just been as fucked up and confused as THEY are. They and I have some differences, yes. But we also have quite a lot of similarities.

I shouldn’t be angry why people can’t change for the better, but be angry why I can’t.

Fuck me. 

Letters From the Dalai Lama

Note: I’ve been reading The Art of Hapiness at Work by the Dalai Lama and H. Cutler. I will be posting some reflections/”AHA!” moments here for the next few days.

“So when these challenges come, you should welcome them, embrace them willingly, and see them as a way to develop yourself, to prosper, to ultimately achieve a greater sense of well being and hapiness. Challenges can have this positive purpose, this benefit.”

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

My Master challenged me the other day. She wanted me to do things that I thought was impossible. Reluctantly, I agreed to her wishes. At first, I was pretty much fuming at the seams. Then I read the quote above.

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Tagged!!!

I’ve been tagged by : Thao!

Here we go!

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Swimming in White Dust

Looks at this blank space

Gives me the highs and the blow

In your hands slither. 

In the Fence of T

Well, well, well!

I have just been included in a review of sorts by a blogger with the name of: shoe sultan

And I quote:

“Her comment box is full of people of a similar disposition, a similar fragrance for the lyrical. They have magnificent names like ‘Zofo The Hermit of Wandering Thought’, ‘grumblefish, ‘monster spank’ and ‘The Taorist’. Names I presume their parents didn’t swaddle them with, but ones with which I am sure they are comfortable. They agree with her, completely with devotion unmatched, each sharing their own paragraph about love or lust or loss. All expressed very poetically mind, conjuring up spirits and crashing oceans, but never revealing themselves totally but for half-truths and amorphous silhouettes. They define themselves by being indefinite, unable to commit to a figure or character suitable to their lofty aspirations, or inspirations.”

Ok. Now I’m somewhat pissed.  

First off, in defense of my friend, is not an elitist snob. Second, with a blog named “Red Shoe Diaries” do you really expect us to treat you seriously?

Who reviews you? 

Falling Into the Central Canal

Yep.

I’m going to give up the ghost of blogger.com.

I’ve left my old blog for this one.

Why the fuck move from an established blogging platform to a new and untested one?

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My New Old Cellphone

I have a new spanking mobile. The Nokia 6600. Yes, a big ASS compared to the new ones. I bought it just for that reason. It’s got a big screen that i need to see all of my stuff. It’s old, at 3 years old since it came out 2003. But at least now it’s cheaper! I just love the extra memory. That was my problem with my 3200. It just couldn’t take enough of my endless blog drafts, videos, pictures, and messages. With the extra memory i can fully implement my GTD. I’ll be blogging about this in another post.

I’m just not sure in what blog i’ll be posting this in.

You do care right? 

GTD and Yahoo

Read this and this first.

I have found the holy grail of organization:

GTD

Getting Things Done by David Allen.

I don’t know what to say except that since I bought it two days ago, I have had major attitudunal and actual changes in my work and a bit on my personal life.

If you want to change the way you see and do work try this book out.

Golden Ticket and Gmail Invites

I have received three extra golden tickets.

It seems that my want for them went sour when I took a dip in the wordpress pool.

Sorry to the wordpress addicts out there, but it sucked. i.ph blogs rock better.

WWWWHHHAAATTT?????

First off, the templates sucked.

Second, it was not that user friendly.

Third, i.ph is way more cooler-looking. It has more options.

I’m sticking with blogger and i.ph. Thanks.

Just got a GOLDEN TICKET!

Just got a golden ticket from wordpress.

Just trying it out and comparing the three blog programs: Blogger, i.ph, and Wordpress.

I’ll be posting my comparisons as soon as I get my wordpress going.

Jeesh! I have to post to three blogsites now? Can’t I just do a mirror of each other?

Yeah…that would be stupid aint’t it?

I’ll just make this my “techie”-related blog.

Yes guys, I am a nerd. Just not nerd enough. I have been followed by my sweet people from my other blog.

Thanks to Helen and Sippy for driving on by!

Too Many Buttons My Gentlemen

As I write here, I couldn’t help but notice that there are waaaaay too many buttons here. I like to have options but sometimes it’s a bit of an overload, you know?

A constructive suggestion to i.ph here:
Please reduce your buttons.

Well, at least give us the option to put in as many buttons as we want.

Just a little bit more tweaking and it’d be nice!

Now It Looks Better

Yes. It does.

Finally getting to know my new blog is like getting to know a new friend. I just have to move out of the blogger.com state of mind and move into this one.

Yes! It still looks so spic and span. Like a grown up version of Blogger.com (Gotta stop the comparisons!). It looks so nice and organized! My old blog looked like a mish-mash Frankenstein and this one is a gothic Dracula. Plus I don’t have to download codes or stuff from the internet for the other plug-ins (although, a future feature of it would be nice).

I sound like a kid with a new toy.

3rd Restart

Yup.

The 3rd one.

I’m still trying to get a hang of this new setting. It’s like Blogger.com became a standard for me. Although I did find this place a heck of a whole lot more organized and orderly. That’s what drew me here. I just wished I could arrange the side bars though. It tends to get heavy on the right bar when you put in more features.

I’ll give this thing a good shot.