204-66, but a Good Time Anyway

Well my friend Joey came over today. We sat around playing one of our favorite first person shooters all afternoon after work. He creamed me obviously, but what did you expect. I mean he was the one hosting the game, how can I expect to beat an animatron running the game on his own local circuits? But the fact the he won really wasn't the point since we were just trying to have a good time anyway. To think that it was only a year or two ago that the animatrons where officially given citizen status. Before that the technology was so new that when they build the original "My Pal" animatrons back in 1970, they hadn't even contemplated what the animatrons themselves would think about it. I mean Joey is one of my best friends, but I can't imagine ever having thought of him as a toy. However, for the past 30 or so years, they have been subjugated as slaves since then. But such is the nature of humanity. As it is there are several standard organic creatures that live in slavery today such as house elves and the monster books we used back when I was in school. But things are improving, and that's all I can ask for.

OOC:

Oddly enough, I don't see the implementation of cyborgs being as easy as the implementation of pure AIs in this world. Mostly because connecting the computer to the human directly doesn't seem to have as much of a bonus in the magical society as it does in ours. They already have access to non-invasive interface tech, so the unpleasantness of installing it just doesn't seem worth it.

Also, I felt that some of the effects of the rushing of technology should be as apparent in their society as it is in ours, so computers with AI brains would obviously be a heavy point of contention in their society. (Keep in mind, a consiousness is slow but good an problem solving and a electronic computer can address the single thread problem orders of magnitude faster than a human, so mixing them seems obvious.)

Boring Days...

Today was horrible. I mean there was nothing to do! Not that I'm complaining mind you, a quiet day in tech support is a very good sign for everyone else. But it still ment I sat on my duff playing around with one of my pet projects.

See, a while back I got this but up my butt and decided that I wanted to write my own spell execution database for some of the nifty little toy spells I've come up with in my free time. And since I wanted it to be web searchable I figured I'd write it in PHP 4 (With the extended libraries for non-muggle hardware obviously.) The hard part was getting the astral image projector to display my image on the fly. I'm kinda noob at PHP and needed to figure out how to cause the server to spawn an alternate projection. Anyway, I got that figured out, so now you can Check it out! (I should warn any muggles who might have hacked their way in that they'll need the astral projector to see the site.)

Anyway I think I'm going to go back to my game. Peace yo!

OOC:

Well, my first link to a non-muggle ready webpage. I think that in order to add to the blog "look and feel" I'm going to continue using this methodology. Looks cool too. ^^

Of Whiny Routers...

Well, for those of you who don't know me¹, I work at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizzardry. It's a nice place, the building is quite old, but I think it's done a pretty good job of keeping up with the times.

But then again, that's why they hired me. With all the new fangled things, I'm responsible for making sure it all works.

For example the wireless network broke down yesterday. It took me almost two hours to convince the network authorization database AI to work again, and it would only do so if I promised to read it a bedtime story. These intelligent routers can be so fussy sometimes. I often am not surprised as to why the muggles never bothered to imbue their hardware with minds of their own. But with how much it improves security, I'd never go back. I mean, muggles have password encryption and all, and so do we, but the intelligent router can tell when someone's not doing what their supposed to, and even understands that sometimes there are special circumstances. We don't even have to setup an account four our guests, we just tell it "it's alright, he's with me" and it lets them though.

Anyway enough complaining, time for me to get to bed, plus the computer is complaining that I'm talking too loud. Later!

OOC:

1) Sarrl allegedly has friends, otherwise why write a blog?

As you can see, the world he lives in is MILES ahead of where we are technologically. But only because of the integration of magic and technology.

Guess I haven't quite figured out what I want to do with the OOC section yet. Oh well.

And in the Beginning...

Dawn.

What a horrible time to have to get up.

But that's the way things are for me. Get up in the morning, go to work in the afternoon, watch TV, tinker, and sleep in the evening.

But it's probably quite different from what most of you who read this are used to.

This is my story, the story of Sarrl Swiftfinger, Magical Technician.

OOC:

How I plan to talk to my readers, Out Of Character. ^^

Either way, I'm Jim and this is my little project to hopefully convey what life would be like in the Harry Potter world if the wizzarding community hadn't decided to lock non-magical technology in about 1890. The idea is to do this blog style, so hang on to your pointy hats, it's gonna be a bumpy ride though my imagination over the period of several months. I'll try to update this regularly (at least once a week) but I'm making no gaurentees.

See ya!