The thing about technology is that it's often very unfriendly. I say that generally, it's more the field of technology us unfriendly. It's often difficult to grasp the concepts and it's often filled with shortfalls- little loop holes that make a technology incomplete and ready to be succeeded by a new technology, which itself has it's own unique nuances. So it can seem a little bit unsettling to find a technology that is both future proof, stable, true to it's purpose(and delivers it wholly) and is consistent. Friendly really is that it's consistent and does one thing, and does it right.

Java EE platform for me is unwieldy. USB as a technology is less so. Basically I think technology can be a bit too complex. Why make and sell complex technology, it's requires more thought to invent, takes longer to rationalise into know what meets your requirements and when it goes bang, it's more complex to support.

I know bundling simple things together may make the thing complex as a whole and make it cheaper and smaller. This is the problem. We prefer cheaper and more complex over basic secure implementation and delivery of the base requirement.

Went into Currys recently, now I've had my eye on the apple tv that's new and quite hot at the moment, and I came across this little beauty. basically does the same thing. use it as a hard drive for all your movie formats or media formats and it'll hook upto your tv via hdmi and give you an interface for them. Sweet. Thank you HDMI and cheap, largely available storage and standard compliant protocol. HDMI - Handy Digital Media Interface!

In these times of youth, of possibility I wonder about how I can spend it to benefit the world. I have dreams of starting a multinational company making software, writing designs and somehow solve the worlds problems.

I sit here, Christmas was just here and has left, I'm a single entity in this world, yearning to make a difference.

There are dreams of traveling the world, helping charity organisations, of teaching or lecturing. And with countless others, I wonder what would make me the happiest and complete me. In my family, money is a taboo consideration however, it lines my awareness.

But as life moves slowly ahead I realise that I'm running out of time to do it.