Alright, I’m doing a lot of excises at the moment, I have placed a minimum amount
of 10 a day, if I have gotten up too late, and so far I’m holding it good. The idea
is that I increase the amount as I progress to the harder tropics.
I should at the moment be preparing for me reexam in Waves and Optics (the first try
didn’t go very well, head full of girlfriend, stress and stuff) But it’s hard to get
going after the summer, so I write a little here, just to get my mind in the mood.
This
guy here, means a lot to me, a lot of people around the world seems to relate
to him of dubious reasons, and if all the organizations where right it seemed that
he was both, dyslectic, had attention disorder and a lot of other shortcomings, that
made him seem very human. I really don’t care, we are humans, and none are perfect,
but it is a great error to point toward a persons failures as a being and relate there
success to that. If you are a brilliant physicist and have a lot of ideas, but don’t
really understand why you should follow the normal route to acceptance, then you are
properly more like him then if you have problems concentrating. I’m not bashing people
who need a hero or a leader (well I am, a bit, am I not?) but what Einstein
could, was think out of the box, rules are not absolute but guiding lines for our
actions and reactions. So light was affecting atoms in odd ways, that seemed to disobey
Maxwills wave padigram? well it fit’s the particle padigram just well, Einstein was
brave enough to realize this, and publish it, and by that led physicist on the track
of quantized light called photons which again started the quantum mechanical revolution,
leading to our modern information society.
Dare to think, fantasize and dream. Nothing is too far out…
Like most in the modern world, I guess that my trust in the administration of the
U.S.A. has been shaken greatly since the sitting government was “elected”. A clear
response to this was that the European Galileo project got approved, whereas it had
been in the dark because of the massive funding it would take. EU don’t trust there
former allied and protector as they did before.
I my own opinion the attitude overseas suggests that a majority of the population
has a very weak point when it comes to religion (not that odd considering the history
of USA) and Bush just found the right way to push it. Some of the fundamental pillars
of democracy is being torn away, freedom of speech, privacy and understanding of difference
seems to be the first to fail when the war mongers get to work. This isn’t news either,
but when US start a crusade “Against Terror” arguing that it is threatening “The American
Dream” and democracy I feel very.. puzzled. I have the view that terror is only effective
if the “victims” play along and panic, since it is the game of infiltration, you don’t
have a place to point the gun but at yourself, and that is exactly what they did.
In short three directions of action was taken, lead by the US, but followed by EU
and Asia: Military offense, Internal sanctions and added Intelligence gathering.
Of these, the only effective measure is intelligence gathering. First of all you can’t
strike terrorists with military unless it is done by a sovereign nation. Sanctions
against your own people is leading the terrorists course, when your population get
squeezed they start to get afraid, the production falls, the prices rise, aggression
against the government increases and the terrorists win. No the work must be done
by the intelligence community, with the measures available to them, and not anything
else.
Oh well, back to what I wanted to write about..
At the moment the root DNS is controlled by the USA, and nobody else – and they refuse
to share. Alright thats fair enough, they started it after all, but we have a mismatch
in power here, as long as the rest of the world is paying tribute to the net, in terms
of information and knowledge, we should have stocks in return, give us access to the
root servers, they are of just as big strategic importance to us as to the USA. No,
that might not happen, at least not until something smarter makes it irrelevant. So
let us construct a security net consisting of our own back end, that we can switch
on, in case of disputes. This would by the way be a powerful political tool, when
the American economy tastes the lack of the world all the company’s would scream.
In the nature of the Internet, nobody can really turn “off” the net, but without
the root servers, must services would be clueless as to what a given website is called,
and normal people (who most of the time have no idea what an IP-address is) would
be out of luck. the easy step would be to add our own rootserver to every DNS in our
control, place it in a bunker and guard it…
Right, enough writing, now I will do something important, like home-work or shopping,
sustaining the way of life, in the west..
I finally got my act together and moved my blog from blogger.com to my own server,
about time!
Instead of reinvent the wheel (or in this case the blog) I have installed a nice app
called DasBlog [The Blog in german] it seems to fill my needs pretty well (and create
some new ones.. wth is OPML????)
Anyway it’s nice to be up and running, only thing I need now is to add a more personal
layout, this theme is not bad at all, but why waste those Photoshop skills of mine
I can’t really tell how great it feels to be “home” on my own machine, not to brag,
well it is exactly that! but why let others host for you, if you have a nice IBM eServe (Xeon,
SCSI-RAID1, 1GB RAM) standing in one of the best servercamps in the country 
Signing of for now, bed time… well that was some hours ago…