2007

Sun, Apr 29

<15:06 EEST> Guess I should do a little update as another JYT production Heppatytöt is coming out. It's a light comedy, and light is also where I'm contributing this time ;)

Fri, Apr 13

<03:03 EEST> SYTY-Festarit aka the student theatre festival is about to start, with Helges Leben as our contribution. I've been in an excited state for the past few days, as endeavours related and unrelated have been going remarkably smoothly. Not to be superstitious or anything, but Friday 13th has traditionally been benevolent towards me. Helge won't perform until Saturday, but then again 14 also has a special place in the local numerology. I must be doubly excited to get to Kuopio where I graduated with the IB Diploma just a decade ago.

On a completely distinct note, I've released a couple of scripts, a2flac.sh and mp3titles.sh. I've used them for a long time to fix audio files of questionable encoding/tagging, but they are releaseworthy only now that I've learned to use the bash builtin getopts. The scripts are not quite finished yet, but usable for my needs — for details use the source, Luke.

Sun, Apr 1

<00:49 EEST> I've decided against writing the aforementioned rant. After thinking about the issue, it comes down to a lot of my personal philosophy in general, and writing about it coherently would be a huge undertaking. The gist of the site is that only about 5% of the work people are doing today is actually done to support our lives, and the rest is there to maintain a kind of slavery system.

I've discussed a related problem in copyright before: why is it that in this day and age of the Internet, data such as computer software, music and movies, has to be hauled around the globe on plastic discs wasting resources and polluting the planet? It seems to be a matter of control and power rather than common economic sense. A similar system keeps most people working for somebody else over half of their waking time, even though the technology of the past few centuries makes most work really obsolete.

Of course, we didn't just invent the idea of wage-slavery yesterday. Society evolves incrementally and doesn't really see where it is going in the big picture. So it takes one massive revolution to change the system. Fortunately, we can change quite a bit with our own lifestyles right now and show good example with minimalist living and anti-consumerism, which is nice for the environment as well.