everburning

Stumbled across, well, it showed up in my blogroll, an interesting article on the Cerias blog about problem solving and our tendency to try to cure the symptoms instead of solving underlying issues. Mostly computer stuff but nothing technical and maps to pretty much any culture.

As a result, we develop fragile monocultures that have a particular set of vulnerabilities, and then we need to spend a huge amount to protect them. ~ Solving Some of the Wrong Problems.

Downloaded the new Radiohead album, In Rainbows, last night. Paid about 14$ CDN for it, which I think is fair based on their previous albums. It would have been 15$ CDN except the order form is too stupid to understand the cents field.

The album is pretty good. Only really listened to it once through so far, will need to give it a few more spins but I’m liking it. Wish there was album artwork so it would show up in iTunes nicer.

The one main issue I had was that the order form sucks a nut. Everything is terribly slow, things don’t work quite right, buttons still say pre-order when the album is available. Updating your order appears to do nothing. At least the download was fast.

I like the idea of pay-what-you-want but they could use a lot of work on their implementation. Part of their terms and conditions says they can email you extra stuff. Could suck if they abuse that, would be enough to make me avoid future releases through that company again.

So, I’m back in the city again for a while. In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, I spent a week in Owen Sound gaming, drinking, and doing other geeky things. I then ended up in North Carolina for two weeks for business related things.

North Carolina wasn’t bad except for the fact that I got threatened with arrest for taking pictures of some of the buildings downtown. I checked afterwards and it isn’t actually illegal to take pictures of buildings in the States yet but, I also read that if you argue with the cops they’ll find some other reason to arrest you.

The whole thing was pretty stupid since all it really did was stop me from shopping. I was downtown looking for something for Stacy and after the incident just went home. Talk about destroying your tourism dollars.

Anyway, got back from the States and had Owens bachelour party at my place on Saturday. That was more drinking, youtube videos, and a large quantity of Guitar Hero II. I bought a second guitar just for some hot guitar-on-guitar action. Hit up a few bars afterwards with a live band playing at the Hideout which was pretty cool.

That’s about it for now. Off to Owens wedding on the weekend and then I think we actually have a couple weekends without anything penciled into them. So, video game time, heh.