Outrospective.org

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

This is the most intruiging read. For two hours, I couldn’t take my eyes off it.

A well formed story that encapsulates all the problems with how the world is running out of oil, and that everything connected to it, is facing collapse. Along with (what little) we can do to avoid it.

The writer looks at the various solutions being promoted and those ‘environmentally friendly’ ways which actually use more energy to produce it than to actually generate it.

Personally, I found the part about plastics and electronics relying on oil to hit home the most. My job & home life depends on computers and electronics and even if I ride my bike to get around, I will still be faced with no job, no money to buy capital (more electronics) to re-invest and try to earn money, and whats worse, no food… no life.

For those that send out petitions to officials to lower the price of oil, I think this read will help you identify the causes of why the oil is so high in the first place, why it won’t go down, why the politicians you are writing to don’t have the ability to fix it and most importantly why you haven’t actually heard anything about it in the media.

Yeah, yeah, scaremongerer I am being I know. But being informed is at least a little bit better than being kept in a dream. That said, the writer sites a plethora of sources throughout his article which show that not only is there more reading you should do and that he is not just full of it, but that the energy companies and governments have known about this for a very long time and have ‘workarounds’ that don’t have anything to do with technological breakthroughs or better efficient ways to use oil (actually, not much to do with oil at all) to solve the ‘problem’.

Hopefully I haven’t corrupted or biased an anti-opinion with my view up here (ie scared you away). I suggest you read this guys article with an open mind and follow up the links presented. Even if you are still of the mindset that we will have affordable oil for our childrens generation, at least you will be able to site sources from here to support your opinion…. albeit demonstrating an amazing degree of tunnel vision at the same time.

Good luck and have fun. I sure did. 🙂

Edit: Updated the link to point to the homepage, rather than the 2nd page of the guys article.

So a redundant blog is awakened? Why?

It’s time to regurgatate what I have learned to you all out there. Regurgitating knowledge is the best way to remember it. Hopefully if I’ve learnt something, then you will learn it to.

The other reason is this site has had no content for aaaaagggeeeeeeessssss. Just some happy snaps of bands I have seen in the past.

We’ll see how long we go before we forget about this blog stuff again.

…. 20 seconds and counting….

Intent

So, like when I first started Outro, I do have some goals for this place.

Originally, Outrospective was to be

1. A cool looking, technologically pushing Flash based site – with lots of band photos
2. Ramblings about the world we live and my philosophies on life

Although I did learn Flash, I really didn’t have the time to invest in it. As I’m older now I’m starting to appreciate the more simple things (perhaps why I opened this blog again instead of reinstalling dreamweaver) and I don’t need to push an artistic prowess. I recall Tool’s dissectional web page as some form of inspiration to stay away from a normal web interface & perhaps from time to time I’ll play with some navigational aids as I go along, but overall I’m not a web designer. I know some very good ones and they’re in a different ballpark from me.

I still have the need to do something different than the norm, so that’s where the content comes in. The ramblings about the world will stay as well. Perhaps as Blogger has a comments system, I’ll activate that and see if anyone wants to talk 🙂

So, if Outrospective.org isn’t going to be the Flash covered fiesta that it was originally meant to be, what do I want to put on there.

The plan is to make it a repository of info I’ve collected from uni and work. Mainly it’ll be a lot of stuff to do with computing, but I’ll also put some personal stuff about bands I like, experiences and those thoughts that keep going through my head that make me, me and you, not me. If I care enough, I’ll discuss wordly issues, only if you’re good. 😛

And so, here I guess is the site map v0.1. It doesn’t appear that Blogger supports tables but we’ll give it a shot anyhow.

Computers – man, this is the hardware bit, but it covers mobile phones, routers etc
Software – stuff I’ve come across that I think is useful
Networking – I’m definetely no network hack, but I do love my router and news of what happens in the land of online
Mobile – I have an E1000 that I’d like to hack, and other related things about bluetooth nes and working on the road.

Programming – this will have to have subsections, and subsections in those subsections
Java
J2EE
EJB
Hibernate
…
.NET
C#
SQL
WebDevelopment / Web & Application Serving
Brain – stuff I want to regurgitate from my computational nueroscience class
The Home Cooking Channel – maybe, though I’m not much of a rehasher of recipes
Animal Welfare – here is a box of soap, here are my views on eating carcass of dead creatures
Music
Tool
NIN
Cog
Society – things bother me in this world. One of those things is how the low socioeconomic group of society seem to be stuck there, what they do to themselves, what the government does to them. I’d like the world to be a bit different, turn the tables
Procrastination and the battle with time management

I’ll add to this as I go along

And with that, I say thanks for the read. Hope you and I can both keep our attention long enough to the end

1hr 45 mins and counting

And this is the 2nd post. It’s interesting to see how conservative one can be

blah testblah test

Well this is the first blog.

If you are going back thru my history, you may as well stop here. There is no point trying further to find older blogs.

Of course I could change this at any time.

Put me in my place, then again, this is my space!