Merry meet dear people. It’s time for another update. I logged into my Hi5 account after a few aeons and I was surprised to see the account was still active. More surprising is the fact that almost every sri lankan with some sort of internet access has a profile there. I only have one person in the friends list (pathetic I know) but through that I was able to browse her network of friends and it was very enlightening indeed to see so many lankans online. It must be part of the new blogging fad I suppose, since most people are “upscale” and “hip”. I have never been either, being an uber geek and all wearing mismatched clothes with an ancient pair of Bata sandals. Another discover I made on that site was that there are a *lot* of single females, although since all the data included in the profiles is anecdotal I wonder how legitimate those claims are. I mean when was the last time you saw a good looking single chick who *wasn’t* on the rebound? Aye, exactly. Mind I have no point to make about this, I’m just merely making an observation. Today is a sad day for me, and I’m sure for most of you out there who use BitTorrent as I’m sure you’ve heard by now that thepiratebay.org’s servers were seized and three of it’s operators arrested. This is going to be a major blow to the BT community and I bet most of the other BT sites are rather nervous right now. More news on this can be found at Slashdot.org and you can still go to
www.piratebay.org and the cover page explains the goings on. The bureaucratic wing of TPB, piratbyran also had their servers seized since they were hosted by the same ISP. They have a temporary blog up on blogger which is following the happenings of the case, but for now it’s only in Swedish although English updates are expected to follow since there is a smaller post on the same blog in English. There are stories stating that TPB had influential political backing which them invulnerable to copyright attacks made by various bodies and institutions and they even faked a closure of the site last year, so I’m wondering exactly how this happened so suddenly with no news leaking prior to them being taken down. My guess is that they probably had received word before hand that they were going to be raided; a site that managed to survive the maelstrom of closures and lawsuits suddenly going down is just not normal. Well that’s about it for now, I can’t think of anything else to rant about right now since I’m on hold (and will be for the next 30 minutes or so). Well that finished sooner that expected, so I’m going to carry on with my work for now and add more as I see fit. Ok so me back again, after about 3 hours or so. I don’t think my co-worker likes me much, but then I don’t blame her, no one likes me much. I like to think myself somewhat akin to Dr. House only more cynical. He owns. I need to push myself to study for my exam on Sunday but I just can’t seem to find the motivation anymore. I feel like I’m still in my self-defeating rut. It’s a curse, it really is. I mean I thought I was lazy, but it feels like more than that. I can’t seem to stir myself up to do anything; I’ve been sleeping for longer hours, like 6 or 7 where as before I was content with 4, and I feel extremely lethargic. It takes a massive mental effort for me to do something, and it’s not just limited to icky things like studying, I feel the same way about my hobbies too. I think I’ve finally grown old or something. Tomorrow I’m going to stick needles in my head and force myself to finish studying because I really need to make at least a half assed attempt at trying to get through this exam. The worst part is that I already know most of this shit, it’s just that I can’t apply it all in the context it’s put down on in the question paper. That’s always been a problem for me, applying things to the proper context. Anyway I think I’ve reached my banter limit for today so I shall sign out and bid everyone bon nuit.
Peace.
