I wanted to share this because I think it is a very serious message underneath it. People are so worried about political correctness and equality, that we are heading towards a really repressive society.

This year has been a little crazy with COVID & I haven’t really written much here in a long time. The last few years for me have been busy and 2020 brought personal chaos for me.

• Brexit – Even though I don’t live in the UK the implications of Brexit hit me in my professional life because the UK becomes a third country from a data protection perspective. Also freedom to travel is really important for me, and because of that I was forced to get another passport.
• COVID 19 – This has hit everyone – its obvious it restricts us all from getting out, and living a normal life, and stopped me from travelling with work, as well as socializing or even going into an office. My heart goes out to everyone.
• Changes at work – Our company merged with another company at the end of last year, and we were going though all the activities related to joining two large companies; figuring new processes, joining new teams, figuring out new people. In addition to that my boss left the company mid year, and added to the workload.
• Donald Trump – Ok, didn’t really effect me but i figured he was worth a shout out because he has literally been keeping the careers of some comedians alive for the last years, and the way he has been acting recently is both comical and disturbing at the same time.

Coming into 2021 There’s a cure for COVID but I don’t think its all over just yet. It will take time to get back to normality. I hope everyone out there stays safe. Coming into next year I want to get health and fitness back on track.

I used to like blogging quite a bit – and it was a fantastic way to be creative when feeling oppressed by the daily grind.

Ive not done it in a long while for many reasons – Somewhere along the way some people read too much into what i write and i had to defend my position on things. I shouldn’t have bothered.

I was brought back to this blog by music – i used to add videos and tag them here, and i wanted to find a particular song.. but then i saw the happy easter message and realised its been a few years now, and a lot of things have changed, though there are some constants in my life.

I listen to the song “A mothers love” as i write this – and somehow i feel its appropriate background music – in the mood that it invokes.

I don’t get much time for things like blogging and expressing thoughts and feelings, but then the world can change in a second and its nice to have just a small digital footprint in it.

If nothing else i think theres a lot of music i could post…

I hope everyone is well out there.

So, i have a few minutes of peace and i spent it looking through my blog.  Mostly just running through the music.

Its been quite a while since I’ve blogged and i am not entirely sure of the reason why – i guess partially its down to the fact i felt a need for a little bit of privacy on the internet – and partially down to a very heavy workload which from a large perspective i have been unable to really talk about. So, a few things about life in general.

I am still working as Lead architect balancing the need to have focus on business and technology. too much time focusing on one results in a compensation in my personal time in another.

I am currently rereading my David Eddings books – (The Elenium ones). I have been watching several TV series- recently Elementary, Suits, Heroes.

Ive pulled a muscle in my back – which i am taking a little bit of physiotherapy for.

Games wise, I am playing a lot of Guild Wars 2. I am looking forward to whenever they bring Everquest Next out.

Diet could be better – having lost 20 kilos, i put the 20 back on and now have lost around 10 again. Its a game of ping pong

Tech wise i am totally enjoying having a Surface 3 – i find it much better than my surface 2.

What more is there to say? I will probably think of something :)

I haven’t blogged much this year – well i have, just not here. I’ve taken my blogging offline to a large extent, because a lot has been going on with my life, and work that i really can’t talk about on a public forum.

I don’t want to delete this blog though, because it says a lot about who i am. The fact is, i have to be a bit careful – firstly because the internet is sometime like a mob of people that don’t listen to exactly what your saying, and can sometimes get angry about one thing you say by taking it completely out of either context or perspective.

The other thing is, this blog has been great from a certain perspective, but some people have used it to stick their nose into my private life, by not just following me, but other people and then had the cheek to give me a hard time over things they have read, and completely misunderstood. Its just stopped been fun.

2014 will be another year of extreme changes – i am in a new job this year which is pretty cool.

I will blog here from time to time – but not as much.

Sometimes in shows there is incidental music which doesn’t appear in the credits, that i really like – or even end credits for that matter. NCIS doppleganger episode – Season 2 Episode 12 – is one of those shows – at the end of it there is a fairly nicely done scene with Gibbs and a girl  – where he tells the story of a mafia guy who was the first ever person prosecuted with DNA evidence. The music there was beautiful, and even though i suspect it was composed by Brian Kirk, i couldn’t find it anywhere.

Although Gibbs was referring to the first prosecution in US, technically speaking what Gibbs says isn’t true. The first time DNA was used to help prosecute was a few years earlier by  one of the founding fathers of DNA profiling  Alec Jefferies, back in 1986.

It was still a good scene though.

The matrix is an awesome film, not just from an action perspective but from the whole idea of the whole human race being plugged into a virtual environment, and i am starting to wonder if indeed we are heading in that direction now. You see signs of the Matrix Version 1 – any time you go on a train. Certainly in Sweden the platform , and the trains tend to be really quiet – everyone has a headset, and is plugged into their phones or tablets. Going back 10 years it wasn’t uncommon to actually have a conversation with a person that you met on the train. If you try to do that now, you can see people getting actively uncomfortable.

What is happening to our social skills? Even kids are given iPads/mobile devices to keep them quiet. People grow reliant on technology, we are loosing our social skills, some of the kids i have met cannot even do multiplication without a calculator, and of course you can argue why should they? with the proliferation of technology doing the mundane tasks is kind of pointless right? Well I don’t think so – because in not knowing these fundamentals we loose our ability to adapt and understand – in IT i see it all the time – people learn how to use the cool easy to use context aware tools from companies like Microsoft, and have a wealth of programming libraries at their disposal which abstract them from whats actually happening. Little thought is ever given to how a pixel ends up on the screen – theres a bit of code to do it – when i was growing up there were not so many black boxes – we understood machine code and the wheres and whys of how things happened. As a consequence when it comes to employing technical specialists there are two distinct breeds you come across – those who have experience and can code, and those who understand and can adapt easily to new situations. I find it very hard though to find the latter category of people. those who crave to learn and understand.

The information age is cool, i love the net and being able to google things, but if we ended up loosing our technology, could we continue to survive, or are we destined to forever being a slave to technology?