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"Transition - I am what I am because
of who we all are"
2011/09/07 00:42
++ As you can all tell by now, the website looks a bit different.
I am trying to change it up again, it has been almost 3 years
since I've changed it aesthetically and I feel like I've neglected
the v.3.0 a bit. Well with a lot of new things going on with
me in RL and online, I feel like I need a new setup for my
blogging practices. Therefore, if I haven't posted about this
yet, I have opened an actual blog which is called "existential
machine" on blogspot. The reason for that is because
it is much easier to post as well as it to navigate the blog.
I like how I can tag posts with their subject and this allows
readers to quickly find my posts on different subjects. This
is something practically impossible to do on this website,
so I will keep this website for more personal posts as well
as some of my favorite ones, where I feel they can make my
front page for a while. I'll also try to keep the other pages
of the website updated with the content I've had before as
well as possibly a few new things. I've also updated some
of my favorite links on the side bar, there are some great
new links there.
++ Back to my blog... I named it "existential machine"
because in the past few years I became a big supporter of
the main concepts of existialist thought. I have been trying
to conciliate my personal religious beliefs and my existentialist
perspective in order to understand myself a bit better. This
has been quite an enlightening endeavor. The machine part
of the name ties back to my materialistic way of seeing humans
as machines that are controlled by the mind in a very physiological
way rather than believing in the existence of a soul or some
other kind of "human essence" which controls the
body. Now, I do realize that what I've said is somewhat paradoxical,
but I feel that perhaps just because WE are controlled by
matter and nothing else, doesn't necessarily make the human
phenomenon any less amazing. I also don't necessarily think
there needs to be a "supernatural" aspect to the
mind that makes us special, and our current understanding
of neurophysiology and science in general does seem to indicate
that what is often referred to as the soul, is located in
the frontal lobe or our brain. Anyway, I will be probably
posting more on these ideas on my new blog, so make sure to
check it out a few times a month. Aside from philosophy, I
will be posting about politics, economics, current events
and technology.
++ Finally, I will probably be changing the name of this
website from what it was for a lot of years (The indispensable
Carlin and Leo), the reason for that is that as much as I
would like, Carlin doesn't seem very interested in blogging
and so forth. I'll try to keep this particular website better
kept and more personalized than it has been for a while. It
may take me a while to get it all done, so in the mean time
expect the site to look a bit all over the place.
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"Recem casados"
2011/06/29 18:05
++ I have some big news, I've gotten married about a week
ago. Carlin and I have been together
for over 8 years and we had been engaged for a while so we
were very excited to finally get
married and make it official. We decided to do a private ceremony
and we also did a nice romantic
trip to Algonquin Park. We rented a cabin at Killarney Lodge
there and it was great fun. We did
some hiking, some canoeing and lots of eating. We also went
for dinner at the 360 restaurant at
CN tower and that was a lot of fun as well. The food was probably
not as good as it should be
but the view up there was spectacular. I think anyone in Toronto
should try it out at least
once as it is a great experience. Got quite a few pictures
of it all on Facebook.
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"Hackers R Us"
2011/06/03 09:02
++ There have been a lot of hacker attacks in the news lately,
it seems like it's happening more and more frequently now
due to an increase in the number of hackers and interest in
these services from advertiser and marketing people around
the world. We do after all live in the age of information
and information is money. Sony was one of the bigger attacks
recently, causing PSN to shut down for a while and costing
the company a huge stain in their image as well as millions
in law suits. Now I hear Honda Canada has just been attacked
as well, and I'm not even mentioning Air Miles and all the
other North American databases that have had their networks
breached for customer data. So what can companies and customers
do to prevent being victims of these crimes?
++ I have been hearing about the end of human biological
evolution for a while now. It is believed that biological
evolution is too slow to compete with the technological evolution
that humans have been experiencing for the past centuries.
The mechanics of this evolution in this age of information
is way too complex and fast for nations to overlook and control.
Networks are faster and more integrated then ever and the
trend is not changing anytime soon, and just like copyright
issues we've been seeing for a while, privacy is going to
continue to be a major area of discussion in the future years.
These are issues that will not be countered by governments
fast enough and the ignorance of people in these matters will
eventually cause one of two things. Governments will enforce
much more regulation on networks then necessary just to prevent
issues such as these to propagate, or they will attempt to
educate people more about vulnerabilities and corporations
will eventually see that more attention needs to be paid to
hacking and data theft.
++ I'm not a hacker, but I do find a lot of what hackers
do fascinating. For years I've been learning just how vulnerable
we really are to people that want to people with knowledge
of networks and computers. The best thing to do at this point
is to play safe, corporations should not be storing unneeded
information and they should invest more in network security.
In the end the consumers pay part of the price and companies
are damaged as well. More and more technologies like this
will be areas heavily explored for crimes and I am still waiting
to see a digital act of terrorism. Unfortunately, much like
flying nowadays, the Internet may very well be changed for
the worst with cyber terrorism, this may be inevitable however.
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