The Human Condiction – Rene Margaritte

“All thoughts are delusions.” Now that is a delusion, too.

I’m sorry this blog will no longer be about purely technical matters. Technology is only a mind amplification device. It is only what happens within the mind that truly matters. So here is one to those of us outcasts, who see the train on the track and where it’s heading. While I once pretended to be one aboard the train and watched the scenery pass by, I can no longer ignore the landscape that was there all along. The train was the passer-by. It’s the mountain that watches the train pass, not the passengers that watch the mountain pass.

We sit together,
the mountain and I,
until only the mountain remains

Li Po

I knew a while ago that fruits should be eaten before meals. Since I recently decided to try something other than milk and cereal in the morning, again due to research, I started eating fruits in the morning. However, following this plan is more complicated than it sounds. I still have to fit in the 7-8 servings of carbohydrates and an egg. So, after some more research on the medical rules for food combining and adding a note on some allergic foods, I have the following diet:
Breakfast:
Apple or Orange

Brunch:
Banana or Juice

Lunch:
Vegetable salad
Grain product (Bread or Rice)
Multivitamin

Dinner:
Vegetable salad
2 Cooked vegetables
Grain product (Bread or Rice)
Meat
Calcium supplement

There is a good reason for leaving milk out. According to the last article, milk should be taken alone. While it’s fine for most people to take milk before going to bed (make sure you brush), I found out I have an allergy that is triggered by milk. The calcium supplement works fine. It is taken at night so that the blood supply has a level amount of calcium while I’m asleep. This leaves a non-drowsy morning without milk and sufficient servings of each category of food from the food guide.

Today, I’m blogging using Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer. Like every other Windows Live product (although it’s totally free), it integrates with the web. Messenger, Mail, Outlook, IE Toolbar, just to name a few. Others, like Photo and Movie Maker obviously obviously can have a web component, I just haven’t tried them yet. In fact, I don’t plan on trying them. Trying out new software is one of the biggest time wasters for me (especially little things, like widgets and add-ons, and at times they seem to be big, like installing an OS, but it’s the little tweaks that waste time). Actually, software is also the biggest time saver in my life (software that’s tuned to my needs). Take for example this OS (perfect) and Writer that’s got everything I need.

Posting blogs and doing work is painless. It’s the only OS I have installed that hibernates without a glitch. By that I mean Linux doesn’t reload drivers properly after suspend. I wouldn’t even bother with hibernate. There’s a faulty Dell BIOS that doesn’t save the states of both cores of the CPU. But Vista gets around by saving it to a buffer and the frequency on both cores scale correctly when I resume.

Now onto the topic of this post. This week has been real busy. It seems as if this week has twice as many assignments due, due to the reading week the week before. Déjà Vu. I just repeated a few words. This must be a sign to get out of here and start working. Maybe all technology does is make people focus on the less important things of life. To end this blog: a picture of my desktop a few months ago:

That’s Déjà Vu for the fifth time if you’ve been keeping track.

I’ve just spent the last few days at home on reading week (It’s called that because that’s the last thing you want to do yet the first thing that you should do on spring break.) It hasn’t been a much of a week as far as getting thing done. I’ve spent the first few days chasing the karmic tail. First, I decided not to bring home my ReadyBoost USB for Vista as I anticipated using XP or Linux. I was mostly exited about my Fedora 10 installation because I haven’t used it much. 5 days max. And I wanted to use a 64 bit OS. By the time I think about it now, I can’t tell if Fedora was faster than XP or Vista, but I do remember it crashing in Gnome with Compiz and KDE4 with its effects. It’s official. Anything on Google’s official (at least as soon as you find out). Everything else don’t make a difference. (Actually, everything else worked fine in Fedora except…) I’ve been an old Sabayon user (more on that later), and I trust it a lot more than some pet project of Red Hat that charges money for the better bug fixed Red Hat Enterprise and sabotages the most innovative Linux projects to crush competition (more on that again, but here’s a hint just to remind myself). Yeah, so I have been chasing the garbage tail (er… a tail of garbage?) since I got opinionated about the OS I use. There’s even a great divide between XP users and Vista lovers (not to say anything about my dad’s preference to keep 2000 on an old machine). It’s all garbage. I mean the garbage code in PLT Scheme! If it wasn’t for that and a slight problem with suspend that I’ve just figured out from Google, I’d still be using Sabayon. But as the story goes, it started this way:
XP -> Sabayon -> Dark XP -> ____ -> Sabayon -> XP -> Sabayon -> Vista -> Sabayon -> Kubuntu -> Vista -> Sabayon -> Kubuntu (next time)
Ah, good thing I kept an album of my old desktops on facebook.