So I’ve noticed this trend that I don’t like. I even fear it may be an epidemic. My roommate and I are technology professionals. We both work with other such people. However, we are fresh out of college and most of our co-workers are older and married. It has become apparent that many of them are former geeks. What is sad is they still have geek desires, but all those desires go unfulfilled. The primary reason we disturbingly find out is wives.
This world is one that is full of problems. Some of the problems have simple solutions, and some of them have difficult solutions. What bothers me most is when a simple solution to a simple problem goes unimplemented. One particular problem is that senior citizens in this country own cellular phones and can’t use them.
So I get to the city at Grand Central then I have to walk all the way up to Penn Station where my place of employment is. It takes too long to take two separate subways to go that entire distance, so walking is best. But sometimes I’m in a big hurry, or the weather is terrible. In these cases I use the S train from Times Square to Grand Central to hasten the trip.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the attorney general of New York is Eliot Spitzer. He also happens to be running for governor of New York in 2006. Most importantly, he is the only political figure I have ever been able to point to and say “I support that”. Eliot’s job as attorney general is to go around finding corporations doing wrong and then taking them to court and holding them accountable. Due to his efforts I received cash money from the RIAA, if that’s not enough to make you like him then I don’t know what is. But on his website there are lists of all the various evil corporate baddies he has shut up over the years. In my perfect world the government would spend all its time stopping corporate evil and playing it’s correct role as referee in the capitalist economy. I look around and see only one man doing a decent job of it. That is sad.
This post is over 4 months in coming, but I finally decided to write it up. In part 1 I explained why just about every MMO nowadays sucks. And in part 2 I examined the social consequences of MMOs. In part 3 I am finally going to reveal the skeleton of my idea for an MMO that will not suck. In fact, I believe it will rock if executed properly.
So as you may know this site was hosted on my old Pentium III on the RIT campus network. Due to graduation I needed to find new hosting to avoid downtime. Let me tell you, the vast majority of hosting out there sucks. They mostly target the stupid Joe Schmoes, the small businesses and the people who need giant server farms. There isn’t much outside of co-location that targets technological individuals such as myself.
Anybody who’s anybody in the social software scene knows about del.icio.us. And anybody who knows del.icio.us has probably see the incredibly popular link to grat.uito.us. Most of the time when I see new social software thingies I say “wow, that’s neat”. Then I might use it a little, and think of all the possibilities for it. But overall none of them really keep me using them for extended periods of time. Orkut had a stranglehold at first, but it faded fast. Facebook was extremely interesting for about two days, then it fell of the chart. del.icio.us gets extremely light usage over long periods of time, at least from me. I subscribe to the popular and ritscc RSS feeds from del.icio.us, but I rarely post something there.
