Old flaws


     One odd thing about blogging is when you read something back you wrote a few years back and you disagree with yourself. Data changes, ideas change, and people read on...

    I'm getting a lot of hits to my text blog these days. I think average users can't see a lot of quicktime movies that make up most of my pages, so they read the text.
      All I can say is that I have been wrong, my thoughts have had flaws. This is not a medium with an editor above one, that allows things to be criticized before they go up.

     So newer stuff is probably truer, but I learn, I shift my ideas. George Bush is always making jabs at his opponents for being whiffle wafflers, those who change their mind often. All I can say is that when designing, the very worst person to work with is one who locks down too fast. Doesn't remain open to possibilities. Can't integrate new data.  And our politicians are designers.
      Some are just really really bad at what they do.

      On top of this there is the problem of stale links on the web. I check my hits and there are lots of people going to pages of mine that contain a lot of stale links. Should I go back and update? Some blog entries I do update, like the incredibly popular entry on vertical gardening, but others, I don't know what to do with.

     A case in point is the post from december 2003 on listening.
It points to dozens of tunes on the underground music archive which are now gone. The arguements still hold true, but the references are no longer.
Let me point you to
 http://www.ilike.com/        or      http://www.garageband.com/
to see that the quality of independent music is still high, and there are still a ton of talented performers out there without corporate backing.(why should they need it?) There is however an ameri-centric attitude towards aggression that pervades this work.  I've had people write to me that my music isn't hard and driving enough, and I think if the vote was only up to americans that criticism might hold true. Over the world perhaps no, though. There are gentle lands out there, where americans go over like a bull in a china shop. It's one of the sad aspects of reality that the most aggressive player tends to pull others to their agro level. Mellow out yanks, I've heard about all the fake anger I can handle. If you were really able to focus that emotion you wouldn't be a nation of Bush yes-men and tv consumerist greed heads. All I get is fashionable angst, no riots in the streets. Aggressive drivers and loud obnoxious musicians, but no-one willing to fight against an illegal war or tens of millions in poverty without basic medical care...

      Other pages, like my medical research on ldn have stale links too but I hope to update that page... it will just take a lot of work, I'm waiting til I don't feel so great to do it.