2013.02.04
Going through a process of questioning fundamental ideas about Alaya.net and what it should or could be, and what types of organizational frontend and backend structure make sense. Even if I were to keep the current categories of techne, soma, and psyche, is it best to have them as entirely separate subdomains? How integrated would I want these to be? Or how separate? Do I even want to have a unified main page for Alaya.net? Now I’m thinking no, but am not sure.
Also, Alaya.net gets almost no traffic. I don’t check the logs too frequently but when I do the number of hits is paltry. In fact I think many of the hits are by search engine or other robots, and then also some which are script attacks. How many genuine hits there are or possible people who might actually read any part of this site for any reason I do not know.
My guess is that some people find pages here through searching for things. Based on some keywords one of the posts will come up and a person may visit it. I know this was (is?) the case with some technical posts I made a while ago. One in particular, on how to do 95th percentile calculations with rrdtool was popular. This was because many need to be able to perform this analysis of their data yet there was not a lot of existing good information available on how to do it.
I have not even used monitoring tools nor really done any serious systems administration in a long time and probably won’t again. Often people do not clarify what they need and then they get pissed when you don’t do it as an administrator. Also, many people one has to work with, in the computer field, can be cold in a way that turns me off completely. In many ways, it seems like the dawning technological age of computers has brought a lot of regression. I feel really happy to be getting away from that area which I never really deliberately choose to be into, I just more-or-less started doing that work a long time ago.
Maybe I can set up web sites for small businesses or for individuals – only for people who really appreciate the help and are kind and warm.
I don’t know what I will be doing in the future and have anxiety about it. I do know that I really love photography and music creation. I also believe that I would do very well at visual art because of my exceptional aesthetic sense.
The other night I was out dancing and I actually felt sad that I’m not creating music for the world. Its heartbreaking the way a human life can get torn apart by factors such as money or bad influences.
But I think the oracle advised me that one always has to go forward from where one is and stop worrying about the past or future and just put one’s all into the now.
Yesterday I went into a music store and tinkered around with a drum machine and it blew my mind what one can create just by a few touches of a controller. Wow.
Tonight I dusted off my old Roland R5 which was sitting in a box. I connected it to my computer and set it up to be able to control percussion samples, half expecting it to not work well. I thought the latency would be unacceptable since the R5 only has MIDI out. Yet the latency is totally acceptable.
I like the fact that the world of digital audio – and analog as well – is this whole area in which one can get immersed. Just as I’ve been doing with photography, its like one goes into deeper and deeper levels and there’s something very satisfying about it as one progresses.
But these are just two areas of possibly many. There are so many things to do.
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