information exchange

Idea: (Copylefted by Scott Garrett Daniel, Inc.)

With the advent of information being a real commodity, how will it actually be exchanged? Well, if you take for example, the knowledge of how to solve a specific computer problem, that kind of information is usually esoteric and hard to generalize and apply to other problems. This is why, when I search for solutions in Microsoft Knowledge Base, it often takes extra experience-learned tricks to implement said solution. Now, if there was an artificial intelligence that recorded every one of my solutions to computer problems, that might be valuable information. But only if said AI could also find some way to generalize the solutions and find potential "buyers" of those solutions. Any input on this would be awesome.

it's official

I am now part of MoonKnight Networks, Inc. My official title is "IT Consultant". The sad thing is that I don't think I can serve my old clients now. With the caseload as it is. I suppose I can tell them I'm out of commission for right now, adjusting to this new position. That might work.

So much change. So little time. Where's my nano-machine neural implant to handle all this processing of multiple streams of data?

Oh, I am reading "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil. Awesome book. It makes me happy.

ridiculousity

Ok, so I'm checking out www.sbsummit.com on my PC running Windows Vista Home Premium. I open up Internet Explorer 7 and install Flash Player so I can watch the video stream of the webcasts. What I get is an awesome video of a black screen. It doesn't work. Ironically, the first webcast I was going to view was entitled "The Vista Advantage".

So, now, I jump over to my Mac machine running OS X 10.5 Leopard and open up Firefox 2.0.0.12. I go over to www.sbsummit.com and the webcast starts playing immediately.

Imagine that.

yay for opensource

Well, since openoffice.org is opensource, the good people at planamesa inc. have created a Mac OSX native version of it called NeoOffice

Check it out.

merger, affiliation, alliance, partnership

Is a merger still a merger by any other name?

Funny how psychology works in all areas of life, and I thought that piece of paper from UC Berkeley would be worth nothing, Ha!

So, I'm in partnership (the current definition that I like) with Moonknight Networks, based in Oakland, CA. I'm still gonna keep the website and e-mail address of computerhelp2go@gmail.com but I'm just going back to being an independant contractor as I started out. In other words, I'm no longer Computerhelp2go as a company identity, I'm just "Scott Garrett Daniel IT Consultant". Sounds good to me. So, the psychology of all this is that I'm balancing my identity as an Independant IT Contractor and my new identity as an Apprentice to a Seasoned IT-Consultant with 15 years of experience. I'll be making less money for the jobs he passes to me, but I will be gaining valuable experience with small to medium-size business networks. Servers, Routers, and Firewalls Oh my! Maybe now I can finally achieve the dream of establishing telepathic contact with a room full of servers.

The other thing to note right now is that I've been rejected from SJSU and SFSU for the master's in experimental psychology program that I applied to. Yeah, I forgot to tell you guys about that. Now I'm just waiting on NMSU, and if they don't want me then I'm gonna go with the IT Business. Because, you know, I like the independance and I like helping people with computers. And I like computers because even though you have to tell them exactly what to do like children, they don't talk back. :)

first comic

Hey all, I now introduce to you "Super IT Guy":

usb stick access lockup under leopard

Just another bug report for everyone:

While trying to access a spreadsheet file on my 8gb memory stick, Finder and the Spreadsheet program kept locking up while I was trying to open the file. I looked up at the top right corner and it seems that spotlight was indexing the disk. The simplest solution was just to wait for it to index (which only took a few minutes) and then I could access the files. That is all.