Give me freedom.

If someone would ask me right now to go for trip around the world, I'd go in a heartbeat it. I'm just so sick of it all. All the pressure and sheet load of work I should be doing.

Even though there probably is no absolute freedom, I'd be really happy with being free to choose the shit I have to do everyday. Now I can't even choose. I wish I could just snap my fingers make it all go away or have button in watch that would put time in pause mode so that I could breath for a while.

In the end there is only one way to get out of this big pile of dung. Pick up the pitchfork and shoveling.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Yesterday I went to the movies to check out the new Harry Potter movie. I'm not big Potter fan, I haven't read the books and I've never watched the first film from start to finish. The bits that I've seen of the first film I've always regarded as bit childish and not that exciting (story about bunch of 12-year-old kids, childish?. How can that be. I don't understand).

The Half Blood Prince surprised me positively. It was way more sinister and scarier than I thought. Malfoy was great character, somehow he represented to me the outcasts of the school world. I could not help having impressions of these school shooters while watching Malfoy.

Even tough the movie was scary it also managed to be funny and heartwarming at the same time. Seeing Hermione and Ron squirming around waiting for the other to take the initiative to tell about s/he feels, was quite entertaining. Also the other small side plots were quite alright.

The movie in its entirety was totally perfect. I felt some trouble on the flow of the film. Some how all the events did not tie into each other seamlessly. Anyways the movie was so good that I may go and see the next Potter movie to be out in 2010.

Things to do

For a week or two I have been dreaming about January. I've been having this very vivid impression of me in Vienna, alone of course, on clear and freezing winter day. I am carrying a newspaper and I'm going into a cafe. I see images of frozen trees in parks and the magnificent old buildings that Vienna has abundantly as I walk leisurely on the streets of a capital of bygone empire.

I dream of hot cup of coffee and croissant. I read the news paper. As the day starts to turn to evening I start to walk into my hotel. The sky is red and the cold wind bites into my nose. Somehow I could not feel any happier.

I must go there.

Year One

If you are in a mood for watching a really lowbrow, but funny movie, I really recommend that you go and see Year One starring Jack Black and Michael Cera.

I went today to see the movie and was constantly cracking up. Somehow this movie just hit me in the laugh nerve. I had to hold the laughs back a bit because I noticed that other movie goers did not sem to think that the humor was that fun. Maybe the others did not get all the jokes or then I am bit weird.

Eventhough the humor is really stupid the movie has a great positive vibe. There is also level in the movie that makes fun about religions and human nature. This probably gives the movie some depth and thus making Year One pretty darn fun and quite watcheable movie.

Complaints and grievances epidsode 2056

Yesterday I changed a hard drive for the first time in to a tabletop computer. It is remarkeably easy to change a hard drive, you just pop out some connectors and loosen a few screws, put it all back together again and your done.

booting the computer is also very easy and installing XP on your computer fairly simple. After the xp installation you start to face the problems. One thing I do not understand why does not xp show, as a default, when it is downloading new updates. If you know anything about computers you normally will head straight to Windows Update after you have installed XP. However going to Windows Update will result to a situation where your computer is downloading updates simultaneously from two different channels, since the automatic update tool is doing the same thing at the same time.

This is infuriating because it has, again, resulted in to situation where my freshly installed XP is completely stuck and I do not know how to make the update work so that I would KNOW WAHT IS HAPPENING.

Please Microsoft, add a feature to your next OS that enables users to see in real time what kind of updates OS is downloading.

***EDIT***

I just want to add how I solved the updating problem. The XP version I was trying to update was XP SP1 and the OS was not able to update itself over Windows Update after installation. After several attempts trying to update over internet I did the following. After installation I only registered XP over the net and then pulled the ethernet wire off from computer then I just installed the latest SP3 to the computer. Do NOT try to install SP2 it fucks up the OS too, atleast that is my experience. After installing SP3 I was able to turn on the automatic updates on and update XP over internet.

Case solved.

First whisper

Somehow you start to hear it whispering around mid July. The first whispers are so low that your barely even notice them. You see it in the colors and around midnight when you should already be sleeping. Birds fly more anxiously, they sing differently than in spring. Then you realise what the silent whisper is trying to say...

It autumn whispering ... I'm coming.

Isaac Asimov and Audiobooks

Today at work I started to listen Isaac Asimovs "The Caves of Steel " on my ipod. Now I've listened about one third of the whole book and I must say that Asimov was genius as observer the human society and making remarks about the current situation and trends that drive this world but he was also a talented writer. Somehow his text flows freely without being shallow. There really is some deep shit in those books. (In this context "shit" is not meant to be understood as literally as shit, but as representation of well thought out observations about humans as a society and individuals). I do not understand how he can explore the relation of artificial vs. natural intelligence, different approaches organising human society and depicting the life of human individuals in such realistic fashion in only one book, and do that in the most wonderful way.

I've all ready read the three Foundation novels and did enjoy them tremendously. Asimov does not seem to ever fail my expectations.

P.S.

Do you think that 10 degrees centigrate is a proper temperature for summer? I don't. It sux.