quelquefois

Let today be known as the day the Chinese government impaled the internet with its mighty spear of technology and added Flickr, Twitter, Hotmail, bing.com, live.com to its repertoire of blocked sites. Other sites blocked in China include: Blogspot, Tumblr, YouTube, WordPress, China Digital Times, and Huffington Post.

56minus1 speculates this may have to do with Ai Weiwei joining Twitter. Lostlaowai says it has to do with that special 20th anniversary on Thursday.

Whatever the reason, this isn’t making my “I hate China” week any better.

Edit: an exhaustive list of all the websites “down for maintenance” has been compiled. Check it out here.

Hey, my site is the third result if you search for “quelquefois” in Google (but who the fuck does that, anyway?).

Conclusion: I rule.

I love deleting things for the sake of consolidating. Recently I’ve been deleting Wall posts on Facebook, which has proven to be tedious, but also reminiscent of the good ol’ days of immaturity. That is not to say I’m no longer immature, it will just no longer be apparent on social networking sites. I started off with about 1,700 wall posts, but now I’m at 951. Oh, it’s been a long journey.

After about ten years in the website and blogging business, it would only be a matter of time until I registered my own domain and bought a little corner in the Internet for myself. Get ready.

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Hi-lar-i-ous.
Be sure to check out the other Regrets videos and definitely all of the “Logic of Hillary” videos by the same user.

I am taking a class at RISD–Digital Photography, and I love it so much. It is no doubt one of the most time consuming classes I have ever taken, but seriously one of the most fulfilling. I am learning so much about image and color correction (wow, did I just say I was excited about working with CURVES and HISTOGRAMS?), that I can’t wait to see my *own* images transform from shit to sexy (our professor’s nomenclature).

Note to Canon 5d: I have my eye on you. Just you wait (until I have this thing called “income”). Once Canon updates you, you know I’ll be there, waiting, drooling.

Good riddance. I sold it over the weekend. Maybe I’ll try again in a few generations. But for now, my eyes are set on a new MacBook Pro. Sexy!

Why the MacBook Air isn’t made for me:
1. Battery life did not live up to what was advertised.
2. Full recharge can take upwards of 8 hours.
3. Remote Disc is a nightmare.
4. It was thin, but that doesn’t mean ultra portable like the Asus Eee. However, I did appreciate the 13.3″ screen and the full-size keyboard.
5. 80 gigs? Come on.
6. Not made for heavy graphic design/photography use.

No doubt, there were plenty of perks (fully illuminated keyboard? So cool.), but it’s just not what I need.

I stopped logging into Facebook this week (save for the few times when I had to return to turn off my wall, change my notification settings), and will not return until I finish writing my thesis.* It’s disturbing that people like me have to resort to seemingly drastic measures (Oh no! How will I live without my social networking sites???) just to ensure that I can focus. Well, fears of turning into this woman combined with the cumulative time that I have indeed spent on Facebook recently seemed reason enough to take a break.

I have had thoughts of getting rid of my account completely, but a series of thoughts accompanied this one:
1) How will I ever delete it?
2) Oh god, I have like 5 million wall posts to manually delete.
3) Fuck this.

Technology: infinity, Amy: 0

*I do, indeed, have the Facebook application on my Blackberry. I contend that it is used solely for the purpose of responding to messages (as it is some people’s chief means of communication) and that it is in no way similar to the website.

Oh sweet baby Jesus look at this beauty:

AND Aperture is pre-installed. I love it, I love it, I love it!

3. Drunk texting/drunk facebooking/drunk calling. Please keep me distant from any sort of technology while under the influence. Unfortunately, due to un-smart habit #2 (letting technology rule me), this is quite difficult to avoid.