keeping my ‘head down’

And this is not my face

And this is not my life

And there is not a single thing here…
…I can recognize

This is all a dream

And none of you are real

I’ll give anything…

I’ll give anything…

Going on hiatus for a while, guys.

Some serious shit to do irl.

Much love, et cetera

The Mighty Zeppellin

Dialing… Connect! #> Login: Zak Password: xxxxxxxxx >Welcome to NIPRNet Agent Zak > zak@Niprnet/%>

So.. </weird title>   Zaff asked me to update his blawg, but, dunno what to write, fucking douche..  So, I guess I’ll write about me, I am his Necessary American friend, an Avid Geek/Gamer/Programmer/Reader/Writer.  Uhh.. I guess I’ll asplode now.. or maybe not, trying to decide whether to play GTA IV with Z<InsertNickNameYouUseHere> or Gmod.. And now.. dongs! 8=========D~~

oh noes!

Yeah man. Conformity is a fickle friend
But I did promise you, Tac!

Kommentari zdese i’ ya budem:
Comment here and I will:

1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something – fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I’ve always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ/WordPress/blog.

don’t all post at once
[haha, that'll be the day]

EDIT: Setting up an FAQ page here for all the question replies people have given me back. Thanks, guys!

call me 013366

Before you read this blog entry, I’d just like to make clear: 013366 isn’t my number.
No, I’m not going to give you my number, and no, you can’t contact me on that number.

Believe me; you wouldn’t want to anyway.

on a positive note – just so corrupting your day with negative socio-rants is all the more sweeter…:

That’s right! I’m getting back into Tears for Fears.* this single [Mothers Talk] being one of my favourites of their’s, aswell as being one of my favourite hits of the Eighties, bar none. If you like New Wave or alt. rock, I recommend giving this a listen – aswell as some of their lesser-known sleeper hits… Change for example.

Hopefully they’ll have a new album out in the next century or so.,,

anyway, time to focus abruptly on the matter at hand here:

something which I am going to refer to as ‘Orwellising’ – obviously, this is going to be heavily 1984-related.

Any teachers reading this will be familiar with the BromCom system – widely used in schools since the technological boom a few years ago – that is primarily used to keep track of student’s pastoral and attendance records. Being a system relied on by thousands of schools every day, it has to live up to this supply-and-demand routine of patching it and bringing out new updates to better suit the educative system. There is no other way of doing this. It either adapts or loses business and whatnot.

But business is not what’s important in the equation of sorts.

The latest BromCom update added a new factor to this whole system of logging attendance and general pupil administration: serial numbers.

The kind you often see on organized crime lists, or, more popularly, prison uniforms.

Having the mindset of a futurist paranoiac maybe isn’t the best thing to have in my possession, what with this particular subject subsconsciously threatening future Orwellisation, of education atleast. But then again, maybe it’s just common sense? We’re already supposedly watched over one-hundred times, just walking down our local high street. ‘Speaking’ and remote-control cameras are already in place in some countries out in the Far East, I believe. Media censoring! The list goes on.

After all, every social revolution has started from one small point, and a set of organized rules.

In this case: education administration and laws on logging every. fscking. thing. that goes on inside schools. Of course, that is, everything that happens outside of closed doors. Everyone knows that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, until the metaphorical ‘concoction’ is complete and is released into the wild, only to come back and bite them in the ass.

Bottom line is: an increase in monitoring would be a bit of a one-sided battle for a while, and then, somehow, it’ll all fuck up. If you want proof Mr. Government Man, compare how long it took for this country, and others, to get back on it’s feet after a war, with the problems still faced in every day society.

Don’t fight for nothing.

Do’svedanya.
The Mighty Zeppellin

* – for those that know me better, in the late 90s/early 00s, TfF were one of [if not the only one] my favourite bands. I use the term ‘band’ loosely, as there’s only two of them, but still.

just an excuse to write

Dobry dyen, you bunch of reclusive technophiles!

That is to say ‘good day’, of which it is certainly not. It’s pissing down outside and the sky is the colour of a television tuned to a dead channel to coin a popular simile.* Sure, I like rain.. no, scratch that. I love rain.. but not grey skies.   truthfully, in this situation, grey is an understatement. It looks like night-time out there. Please bear in mind it’s not actually night-time, but, at the time of writing, half-past three in the afternoon in late Spring/early Summer. Bring on the owls flying around in daylight and whatnot.

Still, I’m not a big fan of the weather.

Even more reason for me not to fill the rest of this blog with mindless crap about why I like different seasons for different reasons (ho ho, that rhymes!), though, to be honest, I really can’t think of any particular subject on which to dwell upon at this moment in time. I guess this is just a deterrent for Rak’s bitching: “update your blog or don’t have one,” as he said to me just two days ago.

How about you drive to Brum and make me update my blog?

Oh wait, I just let him win..
..fsck..

..no matter. You may have won the battle, Mr. GR, but you are far from winning the war.
Expect some Moonbeam updates in the week

Do’svedanya, reader(s)!
The Mighty Zeppellin

* – If you get this reference, kudos to you.

Filler #1

It seems that Zaff/Zephyr seems to be ignoring this blog, that or he’s just too lazy to update it [I'd go with the second option]

So I, Rakien Roffo, have been given access to his blog so that I may add stupid things like this, awesome right? Well anyways, a favorite game of ours is Ragnarok Online, and an awesome RPG game is EarthBound, if you put them together, what do you get? EarthBound-RO of course, just without the EB stuff… I think…

Well anyways, this is a server I introduced to Z as I wanted to get back into game with Private Servers, and suggested that he should join along, well, he’s enjoying it velly much whilst I’m still trying to get fugging Windows or WINE to work with it, I’ve had more success with WINE that Windows, I just need to fix the lag issues… why is debugging so hard?

Apart from that, I don’t think theres anything else I can say, I’ll leave Zephyr to get on and post about the stuff that happened in his day, and stuff, yeah…

~ Sayonara
[usr] =<{Rakien_Roffo:Signing-Out}

a thousand greetings

Christ, how long have I had this WordPress account?!

Or, more importantly, why the hell haven’t I used it yet?!

…hmm… I believe it’s time to take advantage of the brilliant blogging system these guys have whipped up*, hehe. I’m hoping to host this on a private domain some time in the near future** generally so I can encorporate it into the rest of my ‘network’ so I don’t have to rush back and forth between domains to coincide updates with projects and this.

It’d be pretty damn handy, no?

It’ll be some kinda challenge, what with all the members of ArtH4x [save for Rak] being in different timezones. But then again, that is the same reason why it’d prove to be such a good system: they can update whenever they want and post snippets and such under their own names.

I love technology sometimes. It’s brilliantly.. ehh.. <insert postitive adjective here>..

Yeah..

For now, do’svedanya!
The Mighty Zeppellin

I’ll update when I can be fscked

* – of course, it’s not without it’s flaws..
** – Ayman, you still owe me a domain. D: