Despite drama, which I've concluded is a basic essential to all human life, my current situation is incredibly good.

I'm winding down on writing my own blogging software, and through laziness, I'm trying to widdle my online presense to about 2 or 3 sites.

Due to the fact that half of my dear friends consider themselves 3l33t and won't use things such as myspace or blogger.com or even orkut (whatkut?), and the other half is tirelessly addicted to myspace, I have found myself in a conundrum.

What to update? God only knows. I'm just going to have to redo the old home page again. Coming this month, the new and improved malkavian.com. Until then, I can be found at the following places:

http://www.myspace.com/gabeos (updated frequently)
http://www.paradisegames.biz/ (updated occasionally)

Thanks for stopping by.

It has been over a month since I last posted, mostly because of various dramatic episodes currently happening in my life.

I've been pouring a ton of work into my business, mostly on the electronic side (hey, what can I say, I find that the easiest to tackle!) Now, after hours of work, my company has a presense:

http://www.paradisegames.biz/

Yes, it's a dot biz domain. Big whoop. I'm so tired of the InterNIC and people paying $10914039401984013984 for their favorite name. I chose something close, and used the .biz. Cheap, easy, sexy. If you somehow wandered here looking for Paradise Games, go to the link above.

I've also been working on some openRPG game development in order to host a game with my old gaming group, running the game locally from Amsterdam and having the Californians connect to my server in order to play. Fun fun fun! I wish my schedule wasn't back-asswards from everyone elses, but that's the price you pay living in Paradise. (Amsterdam, not the other Paradise.

Anyhoo, I'll throw up some pictures of recent events for all of you who think I fell off the planet.

It seems that my website is becoming less and less stable, with the box it's hosted on being tucked away in the corner of an unknown colo. I haven't done a kernel update in a while, and the machine is going to fall apart soon.

This means that over the next two weeks, I'll be working on new hosting. Posts will be extremely limited, as I don't have that great of a connection to my webserver at the moment. :D

~g

I hate myspace. Well, I don't hate it, but I don't like the fact that it's basically the home depot for stalkers. Then again, it seems that I'm quite suprised when anyone mentions something on my website has changed, or asks me a question about an article I wrote. The internet is supposed to be a well of free information, but are we making it too easy to learn a lot about ourselves without asking where the information is going?

I don't know -- It's probably some of the American paranoia in me, which I'm trying hard to lose, but we seem to be losing caution and privacy out the same window as the bathwater.

At home things are going well. I've been a hotel over the last 2 months and I'm finally winding down to just one guest. Not that I mind _AT ALL_ when people come to visit. It's the best experience for me in many ways, but I forget that I like silence for weeks at time. :)

Back on the homefront, in California, my Mom is recovering nicely after an accident which crushed her leg above the ankle. She'll be walking in 2 months, and is confident that she will make a full recovery.

I had a great visit with my brother, Thom, Ian, Jeff, Mike, Lindsay, Gia, and .. that's it. :) Thanks for coming out everyone (Lindsay, you don't count _yet_ as you are still here. When you leave, you get your thanks! )

Time to start churning on the business. I'm in the yellow pages now in Amsterdam. :)

Still alive. I've posted some pictures. My friends leave tonight, having held out until now due to a passport issue. (AGAIN WITH THE PASSPORTS. PEOPLE PLEASE, HOLD ON TO THEM WHEN YOU VISIT.*)

Everything is going well, we discussed some business plans, and I'll actually be able to execute them without distraction for a while.

I hope everyone at home is doing well.

*Brought to you by the 'Return from Amsterdam on time' Society.

Haven't updated the ol' blog in a while. I seem to have forgotten how to update it.

Much has gone on over the last two or three weeks (has it been that long?) since I've posted anything, and I can completely blame myspace as the result. I've been having fun tracking down friends and writing messages, although I am in no way as addicted as my younger cousin, who is attached at the hip to it. ;)

Tonight, we watch the olympics and I think of:

- a girl that doesn't think of this.
- Scott hooking up with someone I worked with. Wow.
- I start Dutch lessons on Monday.
- We are having Morrocan pancakes(?) for dinner.
- Thoughts of reprogramming the forum have crossed my mind.
- New Xbox360 is a hoot.