About six months ago now I took a break from technology and the web in general. I stopped blogging, I closed my feed reader without any intention of re-opening it, I unsubscribed from a lot of the mailing lists I was on, and I closed a lot of the constantly open Firefox tabs I had. I set out into the real world to see what ‘normal’ life was like for someone my age. Partying a lot, meeting lots of people, being social, working a job just for a paycheck, procrastinating my education, etc.
Looking back now, I did this for far to long. I enjoyed it sure, but it wasn’t the same without technology. Luckily I worked for Cingular so I got to geek out about cell phones a lot. I missed blogging. I missed the masses of information at my fingertips. I missed the new technologies. I missed it all.
I remember when I first got into computers and technology. When I got my first computer, I refused to install anything on it but Linux. I spent a month and a half trying to get a distro to run on the POS Pentium 100mhz(not a Pentium 2, a Pentium) with 32MB of ram and a 2.2GB hard drive. I learned more about computer hardware having to test and replace most of the parts in it than I ever would have learned in a classroom or out of a book. Ever since the first day I got it working and booted that box up into X running KDE 1.something I have been in love with the idea of experiencing something new, and figuring it out, for the most part, on your own.
About 6 months ago the whole technology ‘fad’ caught up with me, and I forgot about those early days. I wondered why I still did it, did I really still love it? Had I learned as much as I could on my own? Had I grown lazy to the idea of learning? So I took a break from it all(almost).
I gave myself the project of moving my website to a new host and setting up a decent development environment for coding and designing(trying to at least heh) when I got back. I fell in love all over again. I have done almost nothing for the past 4 days except sit in front of my computer, updating stuff, fixing stuff that broke, researching other things. I’ve got a lot of stuff on my plate now, but *I* put it all there. And I will love every second of it now.
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