Time Recursion

I’ve recently realised it’s been a long… heck no, it’s been a downright dirty and awfully enormous amount of time since I’ve written a poem. To tell the truth, I haven’t ever tried writing poetry in English before, but there was a phase during the elementary school during which I was doing this at an almost weekly basis (in Slovenian language of course). Now, I’m no poet, and I’m fully aware that most of the “rhymes” I scribble on paper are only good for providing a faster combustion of the cellulose when setting a fire, but I do get some sudden inspirational flashes that contain a hint of wit I feel it’s worth sharing.

As it happens, there was an occasion last week, when I suddenly felt (out of boredom) that I need to write a poem about a guy that likes to watch the stars. Since the title might imply that this song is boring, I must disappoint you, this is not the case (well, at least I laughed when writing it), and I feel obliged to warn you, that it’s not a song to be read to children as a lullaby.

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These days I rarely take time to think, theorize, or simply reflect on current problems and my decisions… reflect… such a nice word that embraces both time and space. It actually means “to recreate” and review. Well, right now I happen to have time to do this. To review things and realign my ambitions and plans. Even the weather is appropriate, warm and sunny, a completely different situation compared to the past weekend, and the ambient, music and the tea I’m drinking, make all of this easier and pleasant.

Yesterday I was suddenly struck by an urge to grab my guitar and play some music. The thing is, my guitar’s at home, so I borrowed one from one of my friends for a short time. It’s funny though, I’ve never felt the need or such a strong desire to play this instrument before. It was always either because I had to practice, or because I didn’t have anything better to do. This time it was the other way around. And it still is, so I’m quite anxious to come home this Thursday and put my hands on my guitar. Might aswell take some time to learn to play some new songs. (continue reading…)

Guess what? Time Recursion is back! After more than two weeks of complete darkness, the blog is finally lit up. Litterarily, almost like a Christmass tree. My old hosting provider, Talkhost, has ended it’s free hosting program, so I had to find another one.  It’s quite sad, really, because in all those years, starting in the middle of August 2004 (that was even before Time Recursion was created), the Talkhost users and staff have become like a second family to me. Regretfully, as you can see, Time Recursion is far from it’s former shape. I didn’t have a recent backup, and all I could find was a month old database dump, so all the pictures in the previously posted articles are missing. I’ll try and find them again, but I fear it’s going to be an impossible task (except for the ones I took myself). Unless a spark of luck shines in my direction and the Talkhost owner contacts me back with the backup. But that’s a bit optimistic at this time, I guess.

[SinglePic not found]Nowadays we’ve become quite dependant on various electronic gadgetry, and there is hardly a day, that we don’t text, call, or in any other way contact somebody, look up for various information, or simply play around with our multi-functional cellphone, mp3, laptop or who-knows what else. Because of lightning fast advancements in high-technology, most of this gadgets pose with a colorful palette of options and features (which are mostly without any practical value, but do help us shovel away more time, trying to figure out what to do with them), luring us into entrusting them with more of our personal data and thus making themselves even more indispensable.

This is good in a way, since we have instant access to almost everything we need wherever we go, but what happens if we loose, misplace, or God forbid, someone steals our precious cellphone? In that case my friends, we’re on a roller-coaster that has a stinky pond as a final stop, in other words, we’d be better off losing our wallet.

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[SinglePic not found]The rain has softly passed our soil during night time, but just barely decreased the temperature and increased the unbearable humidity. The lack of a proper air conditioner only adds to the alarmingly high level of boredness and at the same time, the wish for doing nothing at all all day.

On the bright side, I’ve finally sweeped off the dust off my guitar and started practicing again. After almost two years of hiatus I’m actually pleasantly surprised that I still remember all chords that I knew before and can find most of their scales without having to look them up. There is one downside though. My fingers aren’t used to the metallic strings of my acoustic guitar anymore, so the progress is quite slow. It’ll also take some time to regain my previous agility in changing chords and staying in rhythm, which is proving to be quite a pain in the ass right now.

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[SinglePic not found]I know, I know. I’m late. Again. Well, it seems like you’ll have to get used to it. However, the site itself gives me a pretty good excuse for this seemingly outrageous time gap in my writing. There is no time. So technically, everything is happening at exactly the same time, but since you don’t have the ability to foresee the future, my time bubble is impenetrable, and thus the news come with a delay.

Anyway, I’m at the University right now, just finished writing an exam, and am preparing for two more that are coming this Friday. (continue reading…)

[SinglePic not found]Time is definitely not a statically defined unit as many want to make us believe. If it would be, I wouldn’t be here writing this, wondering how could I have not updated my blog in such a long time, and at the same time thinking, but hey, didn’t I write that fat food article only yesterday? The same applies to much feared long minutes of waiting, before being coldly invited in the professor’s room for another, even longer dose of anguish, fear and torture, before being awarded a grade, usually not in the least resembling my expectations.

While the perception of my efforts towards the freshness of the contents of Time Recursion may seem to me quite frequent, the past week has been archived in my memory as one of the longest, and possibly the best I’ve had in the past years. (continue reading…)

[SinglePic not found]It’s more than one year from the official release of phpBB3 and there are still many forums running the older version, no matter the fact, that the beta versions of the third major release have been available for about three years already. And so, after a period of reasoning the pros and the cons of the upgrade, the time for switching to the new version came also for a forum I help to run, and with that a picnic basket of complications. Why a picnic basket? Because it usually looks very nice and inviting, and it holds an unimaginable quantity of various food, that is usually so different that it doesn’t go together well.

And so we strike right at the core of the issue at hand. The forum has a layout, that is optimised to work with both a joomla front-end and the phpBB2 forum itself, which is littered with php code for various modules, scripts and hacks. To sum it up, it’s not really a nice piece of code, that you can expect to work with everything you want. (continue reading…)

Almost three months ago, I wrote an article entitled Life, the Universe and Everything, which curiously enough, doesn’t have anything to do with the Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, however it gets quite close to some thoughts mentioned in the book. I was talking about the M theory, that is quite popular and widely adopted by scientists trying to explain the creation of our Universe. … ah, the Universe. It’s such a nice word, a superlative for everything that we know of. And of course, also very intriguing, and one of the biggest mysteries known to humans.

Through the advancement of science our knowledge has rapidly expanded, and we are able to understand and explain a handful of events and occurrences in space and on our world. One thing however, which is at the same time the most important, and one could also say, the most basic one, rests unexplained.

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Since the time when the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) near Geneva was being built, there were many individuals that claimed we were making a mistake by building something like that, and even more stupid if we wanted to actually use it. Many theories that predicted complete annihilation or at least partial destruction of Earth have accumulated since then, most of them in the past year when the construction was finished. One of the most interesting and controversial theories, is the one that predicts the creation of micro black holes, which could swallow everything in their path, even our planet.

Such a theory has been quickly dismissed in 2002 by a group of scientists, saying that if something like that would happen, the black holes would decay in less than one second, which wouldn’t be enough to do any damage. Now, after a few years they are not so sure about their calculations anymore.

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