This blog is a hidden gold mine.

Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 11, 2008 at 5:21 am - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog

Yep… that’s what I said in my first post Hello World… my blog will be reflection of my plethora of knowledge, a field of hidden gold mines. I dare I venture now and rephrase it to say “My blog is a collection of diamonds in the rough” (aagh damn it, when you use quotes that means you are quoting someone else… but I am not, I am using quotes to say here, quote me on this… whatever)

All in all, you get my point, and more than likely think I am an arrogant, egocentrentric prick, I am really not. But in all honest, I can really can’t help that I come off like, especially to those would could care less to really get to know who Alexander Higgins really is (BTW, those who know me superficially may well have that opinion of me, but those who know me well know I am the exact opposite. Aggh, who cares, damn humanistic desire to want to be accepted).

Any way, if my thoughts and ideas are so wondeful and thought provoking then “Why is my gold mine ridden with spelling errors? Why isn’t it grammatically correct?” Well… the Coors Light may have something to do with it, but that’s beside the point. My point is that I have this aura of energy, of knowledge, this deep passion like so many others, that is just smack full of ideas just wating to pour out. Yet, despite my overwhelming spirit of greatness, I can’t find the medium to let it all come out, to share it with world.

Yeah, that’s my dilemna, instead of these thoughts and ideas being transferred into a instantly into a digital medium, in a standards compliant format that can instantly be shared with the world, I am instead reduced to the painstaking task of collecting my thoughts and premeditatedly tranferring them into a sequence of keystokes that others may comprehend. Aggh, where is that interface I have longed for to the all omnicsient artificial intellegence database.

Anyway, back to reality… what an annoying hinderence, why can’t my blog just read my mind… Yeah, now sounds like sweet heaven. I know there are critics out rhere for everything, but atleast, for godsake, let me speak to my blog (There we go goldmine #1, hint to all of you inspiring entrepenurs out there, go ahead commercialize it. Spoken command, It’s something I wanted to work on for a long time and it doesn’t stop at just blogs — “Computer, search for ‘The lastest Artificial Intellegence Research’” or “Computer, ‘Check my email’”, but for blogging its at least one pratical application).

Yes, please, please, please… let me atleast talk to my computer ( with out the need to send hours and hours training its neural network only to be frustrated with its interpretation of my speech) and transfer my thoughts, emotions, and ideas with out having to deal with this annoying keyboard… and then publishing my blog… and then re-reading it.., and then make proof edits… and then revieiwing it again for ways to cognivitely re-arrange the chaos I spewed out in the first place so reader may find some sense of coherence… and then… NO DAMN IT, my computer should do all of that for ME!! I don’t have time to waste with that crap… This should all be fully automated for me, because I just wasted 2 hours re-reading an re-posting and re-viewing this blog that could have been spent on more useful things like… writing another blog post, or goint to grab a cold beer because the one sitting on my desk now taste like piss after sitting on my desk for two hours.

And you know what…. why can’t I just think something… in my head, and think think “Computer, ‘Publish thoughts to blog” and voila!!! it shows up on my blog… Ok,Twitter is a step in that direction, but its not enough. I need to grab my mouse, and grind my teeth while I wait for my web browser to open while thoughts of reformatting my computer run throught my head becuase my browser should not take this long to open unless I have a bad virus infection… Oh wait, it opened, ok.

“W…W…W…DOT…T…I…T…T…E…R…DOT…C…O…M…ENTER”

Oh no.. that’s not twitter that’s titter… Oh no popups, bad pics, what if my boss sees,

The power button.. that’ll save me…

I Oh…. … …. please just turn off… … … … … … …

Oh, that’s right, I have to hold it down to turn off the computer…

Ok holding it, but NO.. NOOO…. Just…..

More popups, computer freezing, aagghhh JUST SHUT OFF!!!!!

I am going to press the power button harder, but what…

What’s that??

Footsteps… and ….

There getting louder… and louder… and then…

Finally, silence, at last… a black screen the sound of the noisy humming fan has disappeared like it was never there. Sigh….but….

OH NO!!!!!

My work, I have, It’s gone,,

Oh well, karma I guess. I deserve it, yep, thats what I get for trying to twitter at work.

Just to think all I wanted an instant notepad for my thoughts. When a great idea pops in your head, you need to save it becuase in an instant it can be gone forever until one day, your watching an infomercial on TV and think, I came up with that Idea 10 years ago but….

You get my point, when you have a great idea you want it to be…. “Computer, ‘here’s the concept’” and voila!!! And magically now it’s on your blog and all your friends now about it because they watch your twitter religously. And your blog subscribers, well, when they get home from work home from work they have the blog email newsletter. And the search engines, well it seems they can read your mind as well, becuase what you where thinging just two seconds ago is now in your RSS Feed. And tommorow, you’ll get a Google Alert that yesterday’s idead was posted on Engadget.com.. Oh this could be big, and the next day on your blog
s on the Technorati home page and the ntext on Msn News. and….

Sigh!!! One day… maybe long after I am gone, but one day. (BTW gold mine#2, twitter to your blog).

For the mean time, I will try to fend of the demons of laziness that plaque my humble human nature. I will forge on with my orginal mission and continue to update this archiac mechanism commonly referred to as a blog. Yeah, I call it archiac because once upon a time, in a land far, far away, the people who inhabite that land will think, “I cant believe that people actually used to have to type all of this stuff”. And the people of that land will marvel in awe at how slave companies such as Google and Microsoft manage to conjure thousands of slaves to compile millions upon millions of lines of code. Truly the eight wonder of the world was how they managed to engineer the early days of the internet with such limited means of technology.

To those people that will one day exist, in that land once upon a time far, far away, they will study our civilization in the same sense of awe that the civilization at the second millenium awes at the idea of the pyramids where built with such limited means of technology thousands of years ago.

Go ahead, think that you will, call me what you will (just don’t call me late for dinner), but in the end you must face the truth. The truth that those of us who’s lives and careers are deeply interwined with the internet know. The truth that deep down inside, some way in the midst of our subconscious mindes, we know we waste hours, days, months and even years of our lives, doing what? Performing trivial, mundane, repetitive tasks that our computers could simply perform for us.

So some one please, help the likes of HumanKing leap ahead into the future. Let thou speak unto thy computer and thy computer shall undersand, and shall blog thy thoughts and shall tiwtter for thee. Plaaaaeeeeezzzzeeeeee, let me speak to my blog and let me twitter to it to!!!!!!