Right. So, to the whole....what, two people that keep track of this myspace thing? I'm not dead. I just spend what "free time online" that I have doing other things than worrying about myspace.

I have a LiveJournal account which gets updated sometimes. I dislike LJ, but nowhere near as much as myspace. I have a personal blog (which I created and write in because I want to) hosted by Blogger...though once I get around to building my website, I"ll be hosting it there instead. In the time that's left over, I do what I can to contribute to a technology news blog. Hell, I even have a facebook account that people expect me to use. I also actively keep track of almost 70 RSS feeds, about 30% of which are updated very regularly, sometimes with more than a few new postings. Eight of these feeds deliver multimedia content that doesn't get downloaded and viewed in a couple of minutes.

The vast majority of this stuff happens AFTER I'm finished spending eight hours of my day already staring at computer screens. You see, I'm one of those IT people who does the thing where I make services happen that people take for granted, or fix their computers because they don't know (or don't care to learn) how, or building websites and web applications.

I don't know where a lot of people find the time expose so much of themselves (or their fake selves) to the world on this not-so-great site, but it's time that I don't have. I instead prefer to generate less, but higher quality (and much better-presented) content in more professional, better-looking, less ad-filled, less-sketchy venues.

There may or may not be future posts here. There may or may not be any more information/pictures posted here. I may eventually take advantage of myspace allowing html customization, and become one of the very few bright specs of "not-butt-ugly"ness on this site....but only if I feel like it after my actual worthwhile projects are done.

If people wish to contact me, there is always email. I actually check my email, as it is a critical tool for my work. I don't check myspace messages, and all myspace spam gets slaughtered by my spam filters. Oh yeah, I happen to use IM all of the time as well. In fact, I have a screen name with all four "big players" in the IM protocol world. And amazingly, I happen to have decent 'net etiquette, and actually know how to use an away message to tell you whether or not I'm actually there.

I'm not mad at any of you. I'm mad at this system, and this society. The only reason I have this account is because of peer pressure, and some idle curiosity. There's also the little bit of me that wants to know how it works so I can help people if they break their own myspace thing. I don't like this place, and I never have. It doesn't help that I know details about this site that most people don't, or have ignored. It also doesn't help that I know how a lot of this technology works, what it can do, and what people are using it for.

This is dead. I am not dead. I am very much alive and kicking. Just not here.

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