I like a variety of music, often I am unsure as to the type or genre of music in particular. I listen to the words of many and how they are to shape a mood.

I find music is a place to allow an expression of power and feeling through rhythem and words. You can often feel the emotion of the singer(s) through the tones they use and words chosen to express.

I often listen to dance music, some is considered trance, electro, among other things – I like the way the beat is generated and tones work around to create a kind of motion in the wind that if listend closely is like a journey that you can allow your mind to follow and explore.

A lot of it is repetative but calming at the same time. I’ve noticed that if you truelly do listen to music the backing rhythems are generally in blocks of 8 beats and then it repeats. The tones may change but the pattern remains.

I like it 🙂 Its all good – different people have different views on the Good part but someone must have liked it otherwise it wouldn’t have been saved.

I’ve always wanted to capture a moment. To record what is my past and what my thoughts of the future would be and bury it in time to dig up later in life and read back.

What would I put into a “time capsule” and how would I store it. Origianally I thought to put it on a disk – can you remember 3″ Floppies? not 3.5″ 3″ ones… 178Kb of data that can now rarely be read. Then CDs, DVDs, What could read it in 20 years time? Paper may be the last option.

Maybe create a small device that can be packaged with instructions on paper how to power it to read the information bacK? like a mixture between a mobile blackberry device, with mirrors and magnifier to project to a large screen? or just a blackberry with plans to make a solar power cell to power it to view the data.

I don’t know – ideas to store asmuch information on as small a space as possable that can be understood in the future.

Photos, documents, objects – what would you put in? Would you describe what you have and what you use it for? the Types of music – examples of music you enjoy? Beliefs? How to power stuff? Tools?

There is so much you could record and your ideas – what could happen to the planet, to yourself, friends, government. When will the natural resources die out – were you right?

So much to think about nevermind the container for it all. I read in someplaces that you should vacume seal the container so it all stays as expected in the ground but I dunno in reality – its just another thing I’d like to do and it should be done soon really.

I watched as a friend showed me how the “encrypted” traffic from MSN was easily viewable using free software he had for monitoring his network.

He knew what was said before his machine using msn had told him the message aswell as picking up other peoples conversations on the network.

It was quite disconcerting. I mean I’m not really bothered about people reading the random conversation I have with some people but on occasion I’ve known people to send passwords or usernames across MSN to help out people. Something which over a non-secure source is not a great idea.

We now use a program named Pidgin – its a multi-instant messenger that allows you to have all your contacts from multiple messengers (now including facebook with a plugin) like MSN, AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo all in one place instead of having multiple messengers open.

You can get a plugin thats like a little application that makes pidgin do more things that will encrypt traffic between your machine and your contacts machine. A friend has made up a guide to help you… if your interested that is.

LINKS:

• Pidgin.im
• Pidgin Encryption Guide

Hope its useful to you… I’ve found it useful and think its good to share.