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2006年03月27日
Gone again back again
I'm back! Well, sort of. I have become rather reclusive recently. My roommates are gone, some of the people I have recently been meeting frustrate me (no, not you of course), and there are so few castings and no jobs. So I withdraw.
Then to propel me completely into splendid isolation, my Internet connection went down. Armed with an Apache server, PHP, MySQL, and a little reference material, I have been working feverishly away at some projects. Actually, even before my digital Armageddon, when my net went down, I was doing more tinkering on the computer.
There is one web development framework, the trend du jour, that has me rather excited: AJAX. It is a bunch of technologies that can be used together to create very dynamic and flexible online interfaces. The programming knights at Google catapulted the popularity of these tools into (nerd) media starlight with such lovable applications as gmail and google maps.
So the battle rages on. Geek vs. Gadabout. The two archetypes of my schizophrenic personality struggling inexorably for dominance. I am once again shunning the real world for immersion in this electronic universe at my fingertips.
Still, I manage, not too infrequently, to pry my dessicated eyeballs from the glowing screen, my laboured carpus from an unforgiving keyboard for a night-time run by the canal, trip to the supermarket, or attendance at a fashionable party, guest list only.
Posted by William at 2006年03月27日 22:27