IRC

IRC .. I really care .. No. For some people it seems to be The Largest Thing in their life. For me? It used to be but then I was blessed with this insight one day when I realized that it is the same bullshit repeating itself each day. So now it mostly is running in the behind and I collect links from different channels and forward them if I find them interesting or funny.

But back the to the people for whom it is The Largest Thing in life. I remember one channel where for some reason one person got the Idea that it was her home and no one would take it away. Interesting notion. Others have used the same channel as an Ego boost and then they've become very angry and disappointed when they've realised that no, they are not the Center of the universe. They are in fact ordinary misguided persons.

The fun starts when you combine irc with blogs. Just like above. The references I made are so generic that no one is really targeted. No channel, no names, no personal identification. But what if I added small pieces of information to what I've written? Maybe not here but in other posts. Frequent readers (thank god this blog doesn't have them) may start to connect the pieces together, and although not all blog readers are on irc the damage may already have been done. So is blogging really an even larger Ego Boost than irc is? When writing to the blog you are in control. You can put things and issues in whatever light you want if you are a skilled person. Ofcourse blogs are the extreme subjective source of information. Anything that has been referenced to blogs should be considered ultra non objective information. On the other hand, is there objective information? So do bloggers know their responsibility? What is said on irc stays on irc? Or does the conversation continue on the blog where persons can be attacked at will? For some the later may be true. Others are I guess more socially responsible so that they know what is correct and what is not.

I've been following one blog for quite a number of years now. I know that I've gotten my fair share of blame in the blog and although certain things that have been said about me in it are blatant lies I've never wanted to correct them. Others have also gotten their fair share of blame and they have been quite heavily accused and slandered in it. Why wouldn't I want to remove them? Let them be there as a sign of the persons juvenality and immaturity. Once it is on the net it is there from the day it was written to the end humanity. That is their legacy. This is mine.

On Thursday I'll start a new course called Introduction to Information Systems. 10 credits. Psyched about the course. As I am about the Teaching technology course that starts on Friday. Unfortunatly I'll have to skip the second day classes on Saturday when the RPG people comes over to check out the appartment. Oh well, there is always another lecture.