Delicious.com served this last thing and unfortunately i can’t keep my skepticism to myself;  please read it first, it really collects two point of views and all the events concerning.

It’s funny some days back people started talking again, after what seems a really long time in my opinion, of the end of the world / life.  It is interesting to see what people (we) fear most in our lives and death, I think, is  the subject of choice.  However fear of the unknown, or in other words fear of the future, fear of what has to come on which we do not have any control. We do not control the evens nor the outcome, we don’t even know what will happen at all and that’s the fear we have. We swear to everybody that we have ‘full control’ of our lives but in reality we are but in control for a minor part. We drive the car but don’t reach the pedals so to speak.

Doomsday / Judgment-day / Armageddon / end of ….who knows ?

Every religion has an doomsday scenario build it, you basically get the complete package, creation – life – destruction ain’t that cool? However the people some hundreds of years back were quit ingenious because they didn’t set a date for doomsday so their bound to have it right…it will come someday.

Somewhere people need fear, why? Because we need to have excuses to do things stupid or just without a good explanation. Saying today may be the last day they live.

People tend to like predictions, lots of people make them and even more believe them.  And after it we don’t hear anything anymore from them. What also can be seen really funny is that every prediction has a fixed date, like we’re going to write it down in an agenda.

Why 21 Dec 2012?

“Look Ma….now we can write it down in our agenda! Ain’t that cool?”

Because the Mayan calendar ends then, right nice, good reason keep going genius. Maybe they didn’t know how to count further then 5125 and it’s only  reference is one stone, if it was really that big you would see it all over their temples besides did the archaeologists and translators made the right conclusion, it wouldn’t be the first time we would have to rethink our conclusion(s) on facts.

Before 1975 people also thought that the world would end, and hmmm well what do we know, hey we’re in 2009 weird….doesn’t it? I don’t feel dead, do you or even can we say we’re alive or that we’re dead or what if we’re on an other plain of existence?….scares the crap out of me and you?

Why would this or that happen to us?

“A punishment or god”, “it’s fate”, “it is because it has to be like that”

Honestly, there ain’t a bigger thrill then scaring the life out of someone else now is there? We give millions of reasons why and it all comes down to one thing, because we don’t understand it (yet), therefor it’s a good enough reason. it’s a bit like with myths in ancient Greece; That what we cannot yet comprehend we explain by something even more bizarre.

We’ll in any case….see you on Dec 21st 2012 (evil laughter)

P.s.: check the sources in the other website (own responsibility) but it’s fun to read.

I has been a bit wild the last 3 weeks. School has started yet again and I had a project to finish not to mention that i’m starting to see through the Yii framework structure. I’ve been writing diagrams for different project that I have in my head too and that takes a lot of time. Besides figuring out how I want the database to be and my database system had schifted, alto mysql is the favorite, a friend encouraged that i take a look to postgresql. Yii has given me a hard time to basically because it’s been a bit of a struggle to change coding methodes in function of Yii and then I don’t start talking about the RBAC system it has build-in. It took every neuron to understand everything form begin to end. Models was also something, Yii has two model types and the active records model is something to understand, I was a bit lost at how I would have to write my own AR functions but thanks to the forums I got that figured out too. All in all everything is good at the moment.

I’ll be uploading some pictures of the system I wrote recently so you can get some sneaky peaks at it but unfortunately it won’t be open source system.

Google Video Tablet Newspaper

It’s not a regular MVC framework, yii had a module concept integrated, if you want to use it that it. Tinny mini applications, pull them out and they don’t work but in the larger application they work just fine.

The logic as said is a bit different, in the configuration of the app you got one large file that has everything in it, but it’s messy, so i sacrificed a bit of my speed to put it into separate files, separated db config and routes as this gave a more clear picture of the code and you find your environment variables really fast, if you need to switch dbs

The documentation of yii could be better, some things are left up to your sense, chuncks of code are left out instead of leaving the whole things standing which would be far more handy. Luckily for he who wants to contunie with it there is a good forum with dedicated people answering even the most idiotic questions.

What is whspr!?

Need to receive a message by email, but can’t (or don’t want to) give out your email address? whspr! gives you a URL to share instead.

So what?

Here’s an example: Say you want to advertise a job opening on Twitter, and you don’t want to share your company email address. Some applicants may not want to post a public @reply, and they can’t send you a direct message if you don’t already follow them. Include a whspr! URL, and they can reach you discreetly.

A short version of how the internet was created, the basic fundamentals. It’s funny to see.

nsf.gov – NSF and the Birth of the Internet – Special Report.