So that’s it then. 2009 is over and with it, the first decade of the naughties (you know, from 00 to 09). That’s apparently what they are called. I’d rather call them the ‘two-thousands’ or ‘millennials’. If you are reading this, you should be grateful. You were actually there at the turn of the Millennium. That happens once every one thousand years, so.
Does it not feel weird to you to say ‘man, the year 2000 – that was 10 years ago’ ?
Anyone still remember the Year 2000 Problem – or Y2K – where we all thought that computers would go crazy because of only two digits in the year (99 instead of 1999, therefore 00 and 1900) ? Turns out computer manufacturers knew about this a while earlier and built computers that could do 4 digits in the year instead of two. They started to make those around 1990 or so.
Remember Me? This edition of Windows is today a mere afterthought of a not too distant past – just like the Y2K problem
Well seems as if we evaded the end that time… phew! But seems as if the new Year 2000 Problem is now simply called 2012, and no, I don’t mean the movie. That flick is loosely based around the fact that the Maya calendar ends in 2012, on December 21, 2012, to be exact. What does that mean exactly, like, for real now? Okay. We know their calendar ends on that date. What we do not know is the meaning of it. However it is also true that some of the predictions the Maya made in their writings and calendars have been quite accurate. So logically the majority of people believes in some sort of major shift in society happening on or after that date. Others say they just ran out of space… A calendar has to end somewhere – some time. For this one, there is no way of knowing the meaning other than actually waiting until that day comes. Who knows, maybe it’s just another revival of the Y2K bug. Maybe it isn’t. We don’t know.
“It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. In the year 2015 people have access to a breadth and depth of information, unimaginable in an earlier age. Everyone contributes in some way: participating to create a living, breathing media scape. However the press as you know it, has ceased to exist.”
Be warned.
What can I say for me… I sure have seen a lot of things happening in those ten years, probably the most important ones in my life. Without a doubt the mother of all my decisions I ever made was to come to Ireland. Back in 2001, I was looking for a job after I bailed out of an apprenticeship… Xerox was interested in me at the time, and what do ya know? On May 21 2001 I started to work for them and did so for four and a half years. Not even in my wildest dreams did fate choose that kind of path for me. Yet here I am. I have worked for some big companies ever since then: Xerox, HP, Microsoft, DoubleClick, and Google. Not only did that have a tremendous positive effect on my CV, it also gave me work and life experience I could not have gotten anywhere else. All the things that happened in that time from then until now is simply too much to put into this article, so I’ll be really brief.
Ah, yes… not everyone gets fired by Google eh? And if they fire you, you KNOW the recession is bad!
Let’s just say that so far, these have been the most extraordinary years of my life, I promise you that much. But like Bill Hicks used to say: ‘Life’s like a ride in an amusement park and if you choose to go on it, you think it’s real – because that’s how powerful our minds are’. He sure figured it out. I start to understand what he meant I think.
Right now I don’t know what I’m gonna do tonight, so… Well what ever you’ll do, have fun tonight – remembers it’s the end of a very important time. First 10 years in the new Millennium and 21st century.
Yeah so anyways. Every year I kinda make some music covers for actual CDs I make for myself. It’s sort of my own tradition, I think I mentioned it here before a long while ago. The theme changes every year to something that had the most effect on me. This year it’s anime I suppose… If I ever watch TV, it’s TV-on-demand and it’s anime. So here are the covers for this year.
Elda Taluta – The Words Of Awakening.
Be Human.
Well until next year then. Be good, be human. Party well and enjoy.
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