From bebo

1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn't make sense. NO CHEATING!

Some what bizarre the mix you can get.

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
How can I keep from singing - Enya

WHAT'S YOUR OUTLOOK ON LIFE?
New Medicines - Dead Poetic

WHAT DOES YOUR FAMILY THINK OF YOU?
The Tower - Vienna Teng

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
UNATCO - Ionstorm Studios

WHAT DO STRANGERS THINK OF YOU?
0 - Nakagawa Koutarou

WHAT DO YOUR EXES THINK OF YOU?
Vhailor Theme - Black Isle Studios

HOW IS YOUR LOVE LIFE?
Town - Bethesda Studios

HOW WILL YOUR LOVE LIFE BE IN THE FUTURE?
Secret Seeker - Ichiko Hashimoto

WILL YOU GET MARRIED?
The Umar Hills - Bioware Studios

WILL YOU HAVE KIDS?
Lost Village - Castlevania Developer

ARE YOU GOOD AT SCHOOL?
Tuba Mirum - Orquestra Sinfônica de Budapeste

WILL YOU BE SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE?
Inner Take - Ichiko Hashimoto

WHAT SONG SHOULD THEY PLAY ON YOUR BIRTHDAY?
Duke of Death - Jeff van Dyck

WHAT SONG SHOULD THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Viconia's Romance Theme - Bioware Studios

THE SOUNDTRACK OF YOUR LIFE:
Herr, lehre doch mich - Brahms, Johannes

YOU AND YOUR BEST FRIEND ARE:
Selig sind, die da Leid tragen - Brahms, Johannes

HAPPY TIMES:
Nemesis- machinae supremacy

SAD TIMES:
Brynnlaw - Bioware Studios

EVERY DAY:
Tokusou - Yoshihisa Hirano and Hideki Taniuchi

FOR TOMORROW:
Shin Troop - Nakagawa Koutarou

FOR YOU:
Zone Triggers - Mooze

WHAT DOES NEXT YEAR HAVE IN STORE FOR ME?
Rem - Yoshihisa Hirano and Hideki Taniuchi

WHAT DO I SAY WHEN LIFE GETS TOO HARD?
Cursed Clock Tower - Castlevania Developer

WHAT DO I THINK WHEN I GET UP IN THE MORNING?
Tavern 2 - Bioware Studios

WHAT SONG WILL I DANCE TO AT MY WEDDING?
A Shadow on Me - Project 86

WHAT DO YOU WANT AS A CAREER?
Deus Ex - Ionstorm Studios

YOUR FAVOURITE SAYING?
A Knife in the Dark - Howard Shore

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Romdo Overshadows- Yasuyuki Ueda

WHERE WOULD YOU GO ON YOUR FIRST DATE?
Desert - Black Isle Studio

DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Black Out- Muse

WHAT DO I LIKE DOING MOST?
Area 51- Ionstorm Studios

SONG THAT DESCRIBES MY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL.
mx explore - Bethesda Studios

WHAT IS MY STATE OF MIND AT THE MOMENT?
The Void - Ben Houge

HOW WILL I DIE?
redd - Black Isle Studio

THE SONG THAT YOU'LL PUT AS YOUR SUBJECT:
Misa no Theme A- Taniuchi Hideki

A Question - Skype or SIP?

Do any of you who read my blog utilise any VOIP programs like Skype or Gizmo? If so which program do you use? As I am thinking about setting up such a program and would prefer to use what ever one is used by more of the people I know if any of you use such a program, that is.

Also I don't entirely like the idea of using Skype have heard the odd iffy thing about it.

A couple of links

What Scientologists believe.

• It's hard to believe any one would believe something this silly! Though I guess if you've spent $100,000's on trying to learn it your likely to want to believe it somewhat desperately! Still I guess some people could/would say some aspects of Christianity are nearly as silly!
  

It doesn't pay to be smart!

• Fairly interesting though unsurprising.
  

IQ's and Occupation

Modern IQ ranges for various occupations

An interesting table the high end being a little predictable though the variance for College professors is a little worring.

A shorter history of the next 25 years

Charlie Stross, Life's a Game and Then You Die: the Future of Online Games

Whether you live and play in augmented reality or virtual reality is a choice you'll make every day. Probably the two environments will overlap so that the next generation — the folks born in 2012 — won't necessarily be aware of it. Do you remember growing up before computers? Before CDs? Before GPS? Before the internet? They're not going to remember growing up before MMOs, or VR, or AR. The politicians grandstanding today about the evils of computer games and the urgent need to ban Whizzumajig will look as quaint to their eyes as a Prohibition-era preacher ranting about the evils of the demon Rum.

Charles Stross has a look at some possibilities on when computers and computer gaming may end up (especially MMOGs) for the next 5 though 25 years. Very interesting stuff, it's going to be very interesting to see how things change in the next 25 years. He makes some rather good points about TPM and DRM as we put more and more of our selves up online it's going to become increasingly important to us to control and protect our "online" avatars and properties, and such technologies are likely to play an important role in such protection.


Thinking back 10 years, my family was transitioning from an old second hand green screen pc (386, 300k ram) that got used once every few months to a P166 with 32mb Ram and 3GB HDD with a 33.6k modem. No cellphones, no DVD's, a few old 35m Camera's. The internet was present, but there wasn't a lot to look at for most people, a few news sites, plenty of computer related sites, warez and a few other things. Internet was for email and IM for most of us and the local BBS was still kicking a bit as an alternative. Multiplayer computer games were generally dialup or lan based. Most of the other families we knew some with older children (late highschool) or younger had one family computer which got used for school projects and a few games and cellphones were company provided for the few who had them.
Now look at it today (though we've now a different age group so it may be partly due to that) in a family of 5 we have 6 computers all networked (admittedly 2 don't get used a lot) not counting 2 additional ones that the "shop" owns. We have 2 digital camera and 4 cellphone of which two of the cellphones can also take pictures. Multiplayer computer games are webbased and modems are some where but not attached to the computers. The computers are on average around 2 years old and yet are in the range of 2Ghz (10x faster just based on frequency not work) with 512-1024MB RAM (~20x + more) and spread among them we have ~600GB (200x more)of storage space, the internet connection is 2Mbps (~60x faster). The internet can be used for just about anything email, IM, phonecalls, gaming, TV, movies, music, photos, journals, buying and selling, organising our schedules and is one of our primary sources of news. We can often connect to it from any point in our houses (if wireless) and some public places, we can connect to a limited amount from our cellphones (at a level of interaction that reminds me strangely of the internet around 1997). It's changed so rapidly and only now are our generation the "first" as such to grow up at least partly with the internet starting to get to the point where we can have an effect on the structure of the web and start to create the services we want to use. With all this occurring in just 10 years it's going to be incredible interesting to see what happens in the next few years.

Sex and Intelligence

Gene Expression: Intercourse and Intelligence

An interesting article that people may find interesting to read. An interesting quote mentioned in the article is this:

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley

Apples to Apples

Can be rather amusing at times:

During one game this was observed:

Kelly is Odd, Creepy and Sweet.
Reuban R is Delicate and Sensual.
Reuban T is Calm and Ordinary
Matt P is Primitive, Temperamental, Rich and Selfish
Andrew is timeless.
Chad is Filthy, Arrogant, Hostile and Horrifying.
Fraser is Industrious, Touchy Feelly, wild , idiotic and Inspirational.