I remember this from a while back, but now it seems to be real and fruiting into reality sooner then I thought!
2012 is going to be an interesting time for game dev. I certainly want to jump on board with it. 
… and no one remembered, except me. ;o
It’s coming up to four weeks since I decided to ditch the Facebook thing, for good. The idea of living aspects of social psychology in virtual space doesn’t really appeal to me. So I don’t have any plans to return to it.
Some interesting things.
But don’t go out of your way, really.Although it could be a good tool to shape your whole ‘image’ to a social mass, in the end it’s better to do this in person. It was fun to explore at the start, and to watch it grow, however I believe it can also be a mass social conditioning tool which will threaten the privacy and individuality of the future, for a lot of people.
The tricky thing is how to incorporate the business aspect of my life into Facebook, when I refuse to make an account. A twitter is fine too. ;o
Over the past yearish, I’ve put a bit of energy into establishing business ventures with my computer skillz. So far so good! I think it’s going to turn into a full time thing, and I’ll look after myself with this.
Although a website to web-ify it all is in the works, the domain is over at http://dreamfast.com.au/ Websites, software, etc
Only last week I made the change to separate all the business / personal stuff. OS X Lion makes that a lot easier, with superior fast user switching! </sellout> Which does help a lot. I recommend this to anyone starting a similar thing.
Good news!
The amazon aws went through ok, and I’ve being trying it out. So far so good. Really has opened up a lot of opportunities to expand out ideas.
One thing I’ve thrown together is a self managed, slowly growing database of music (kirtan). Every few weeks there is some python scriptz on the chron which automaticly crawl certain websites, see if there is new content and downloads them. Then updates an sql database, and the radio streams. Umm, http://kirtancollection.net/
It’s pretty cool so far, but I’m not putting a lot of energy into it. I was hoping to have a torrent of the music as well, then after each update it can make a twitter about any new info.
One thing though is, this kind of thing takes up a lot of I/O requests, which has come to about… $12 on the aws. Which is not SO bad, but moving it to my dedicated host would be better and cheaper.
Once I get the fundamentals out of the way, I’ll expand it out more to encourage people to sign up and contribute and take part. Secret ideas. ;o
Rejected my debit mastercard why don’t you! Not because I have no money, because it’s a debit card. Even though you have accepted payment on amazon store for some things. Wow man. Just wow.
So troublesome to now take over the internet. Time to source some alternatives.
Expect more paranoia and security related posts of this nature! Soon I’ll make everything sapwell.net SSL, and post some nice things on how to be safe in case they are watching your internet traffic.
But point is, no more Facebook. It’s stupid. I hope more people follow along. Remember there is always the safe and easy way!
Well, worst case is I’ll make one, but just have it as a portal to other things I am doing on the web. Since people still seem to like to use it for some reason.