So.. mykehurley.com as you may (or may not) know it is going to be changing..
I’m finding that these days I’m not writing such big posts anymore and my main communication is going through Twitter..
Therefore both Mykellog.com and Mykehurley.com are going to route to my Tumblr page (the one you are now looking at).
I feel this aggregates everything pretty well, and if i ever do want to write any longer posts i can do that also.
Danke!
I’ve seriously been neglecting my blog recently; I’ve been hella busy!
Got so much to say.. But not enough time to say it in
I shall follow up shortly!
“Love is all you need”
I reckon they were on to something there y’know..
Last year in the united states twitter usage grew by 752%. To be frank this doesn’t surprise me. I’d actually love to see the UK figures also.
I think in this country the tippng point was when stepen fry appeared johnathan ross’ show and they discussed the service.
Since then it appears that every ‘tom, dick and abdul’ has joined up.
Personally, I started twittering a few years ago when it was only used by America’s ‘technorati”. I took a hiatus from the service for a while but returned in the middle of last year.
It is something I enjoy (now more reading than posting myself) but to be honest, like my feelings with facebook, I’m starting to look for something new.
Hotly contested in today’s society.
Its as simple as that. Personally i think its an abused right. Yes its something everyone should have. But i don’t think that somebodies personal opinions need to be heard by everyone; just because you have the right to make your feeling heard doesn’t mean you should.
I’ve been thinking a bit about this over the last 24 hours as there’s been a few things that are bringing it to my attention.
The riots in London over the G20 summit are a difficult topic at the moment. Views expressed by either side are valid in their own ways, but are polar opposites. There aren’t many ‘fence-sitters’ on this one, you either agree with the protesters or you don’t.
Personally, even though i see the points they are raising and consider them valid (to a degree), i do not agree with them. Of course my opinions are bias as i work in the banking industry, but people that do not work in this field have their opinions biased because they don’t (if that makes any sense).
Yes, i understand that some people made some pretty big mistakes. I get that.. I’ve seen people lose their jobs, I’ve seen colleagues in fear that they may lose theirs, but at the end of the day WE ARE HUMAN. We are all humans, and there’s a lot, a heck of a lot, of people that are just doing their jobs and having nothing to do (directly) with the recession.
Making people fear for their safety, destroying public property and generally causing a nuisance is not how these things should be conducted. I’m not saying that people are wrong to make their feelings heard, there are just better ways to express opinions. This does nothing, not in the long run. These are not intelligible, world changing points being made by the protesters.. its just a bunch of people jumping on the bandwagon. The G20 will do all they can to ignore these people.
If anything they have only served to make their cause harder to achieve.
In the same vain, a friend of mine has been having some free speech issues on her blog. She made a post a few days ago, a video post, and for some reason it has elicited a few nasty responses from the on-line community. For really, no apparent reason.
Basically its just a random brain dump on her personal blog. Pretty much what most personal bloggers do. That’s all personal blogging is; a voyeuristic diary. Not long ago, people would have written these exact thoughts in a diary with a lock and key (and of course, a lot still do), but because of the way that people publicly share themselves on-line these days for the world to see, it only makes sense for young people to share their emotions and thoughts in blog posts (just like this one i guess)
Now, for some reason somebody decided to post a stupid offensive comment to this post, obviously angering the author enough to retaliate. And then from this another commenter decided it be poignant to launch in to a diatribe in which they completely tear the author apart, criticising everything about her and the people in her ’social scene’ and ‘circles’.
This goes back and fourth a few times between various commentors and the author. All in all a very strange and nasty affair. Obviously the (anonymous) commenter uses the usual remarks like, ‘nothing personal’ and ‘this is not me being jealous of you or anything’, even though by saying these thing it appears to show quite the contrary.
Basically, what I’m saying about this, and i know this is also my opinion, is that this commenter does indeed have the right for her free speech, and has the ability to give their own opinion, but she doesn’t need to push this on to the author. For example, what i have just written is my take on it. Now i could have posted this and some other (more nasty) feelings that i have on the matter (like how i feel the use of ‘clever’ language appears to be completely forced to make the writer seem more intelligent, etc) right in to a comment on the blog post itself, but i have chosen not to as i don’t view this as constructive.
That’s just my view i guess, and its a view i am as entitled to as a the next guy, however i feel its much more appropriate in my own space.
(just for clarity, this is a link to the post and the comments in question: http://hellodeception.blogspot.com/2009/03/pointless-babble.html )
I have met the one.
I don’t really think i need to say any more than that. But i know i have.
My life is really starting to fall in to place at the moment, my career is on track and i have met the girl of my dreams. As corny as that sounds, it just seems to me that everything I’ve always believed to be right in someone i have in Sami.
Mental it is!
If i didn’t think it enough already, the fact that even my Mum thinks this also, (“i think you’ll marry her, i reckon shes the one for you”, is how she put it) only serves to solidify my feelings. Mum’s never said anything like this before, about anyone. The fact that she’s saying this so soon just proves something important to me..
I’m still never happier than when im with her. And as i feel I’ve shown in some way, I’m willing to do things and make sacrifices to make us work. It may only be small things I’ve done (like ‘prune’ certain contact lists) but its something i would have refused to do previously. But people change, and as your life changes there are things you need to do that will benefit you and your relationship. I know i made the right choice there, and i know i will continue to do so. To be honest, it just makes total sense.
Having someone in your life that simply brightens your day with a quick witted response or just a silly comment to make you smile is simply the greatest thing. And its something i cannot waste or allow myself to lose. It’s as simple as that!
Buckle up Michael Hurley, this is the rest of your life!
=]
p.s, having someone in your life that grounds you and helps you focus on the important things, as well as making you so happy that your head is up in the clouds, is a rare and beautiful thing. i hope everyone gets to have this feeling. Its unparalleled.
I think for me its starting to lose it’s appeal.
For some strange reason Facebook is finding it necessary to completely overhaul its design every few months, for no real apparent reason..
I’m sure at the moment there is more than enough facebook-hating all over the Internet, and that’s not what I’m trying to do here, as it does have some nice points to the new design. For example everything is much cleaner and looks a lot better but the functionality of it all seems kinda backwards.. for example, my main problem is that of the time-line aspect on the ‘wall’. It just doesn’t make sense anymore.. there’s no grasp of time in it all, it just clumps all of your recnt activity together, rather than spreading it out to correspond with the replies given on to your page (see below.. a picture helps)
So my Mac has decided that it wants to break
It no longer wants to recognise it’s USB ports.. Therefore no keyboard and mouse!
Fan-f*cking-tastic!!
That’s just what I want! It’s seriously like one thing after another at the moment!
Sod knows what I’m going to do now!
Sod knows how much this will cost!!
ARGHHHHHHH!
Update: All fixed! thanks to the Apple support team! Phew…
My Facebook has really been aggravatign the past few days..
its just refusing to keep me signed on..
I cant wait for something new now..
Facebook: 04/02/04 – 2009?
RIP?
I’ve been saying for far too long that I’ve wanted to do some form of exercise, both to keep myself fit and to lose a little of the weight I’ve started accumulating..
I think though, that the problem with most exercise is that its boring, and ultimately I’d like to have somebody to go with to help alleviate some of that.
Therefore I have started going wall climbing with Michal from work.
I actually really enjoy it, a lot more than i thought i would.. and i’m nowhere near as bad at it as i imagined..
I guess my only real setback is that i need to combat my own fears with it, and gain the confidence in myself that i need to soemtimes go for the more difficult hand and footholds, and not fear so much that i’m going to plummet to my death! haha
I hope its something i can keep up with.. i think it would be good for me!
