I’m quite proud of the general diction used through my blog. Although my brain can only recall exact phrases and ideas from recent entries, I think about my writing style (casual, yet indistinctly formal - a recipe for “intelligent” text?) and smile. I know I will always be imperfect, and surely there are numerous grammatical, spelling, and logic errors in my posts. Nonetheless, I’m proud of my work, and I’m very thankful that I have a quasi-organized, chronological, semi-continuous (and continuously backed-up) account of my thoughts going back to 2001, over 7 years ago! Although many of my current philosophies and views about life, love, and open source software remain the same, I’m evermore surprised at the stark contrast between my current ideology and the concepts expressed in some of my older writings (use Google to find my entry on “the corporation”, obviously written when I was irritated about someone - it’s about as anti-capitalistic as one could imagine!). I must digress; the only reason I wrote this entry tonight was to quote myself from October, 2002 (over 6 years ago - I just turned 17, and was a Jr. in high school). I was describing [in my mind what was a] catastrophic event: the accidental deletion of my file storage computer / web server’s entire hard drive. I’ll let the words speak for themselves.

How creative was I? Okay, so I was no Homer. Maybe I’m just being sentimental, but I still think that’s a beautiful over-literal description of how my life was deleted - “cast into the atmosphere by my heat sink” - it’s so cool! For those of you less computer savvy, a heat sink is what cools the main microchip in your computer.