Onward and Upward

Well, to say the least I’m on the mend. I set up a placeholder page for my new site, took care of the domain namespace and permission for the database. Tomorrow I will direct the old domain to the new site placeholder. Somewhere deep down there is still a lot of anxiety, the beast is sedated for now but the fail of failure is still there. So it’s onward from here and hopefully upward.

While I spent the day browsing I found a few interesting article in what appears to be a string of random tangent thoughts. It started with boredom. Looking for something to do—it’s Sunday I need to do something different. This started with the City of Toronto’s Event Calendar, then onward to free events at Luminato. This led to searching for an LED light kit for my paper lantern project that might lead to the formation of an art club. If you live in Toronto and are curious about it, leave a post.

From there, I checked up on the latest by my friends on Facebook and one in particular intrigued me about sustainable pre fabricated housing made of transport containers that led to one of my favourite design site that went back to Facebook who has a friend who is listed on as one of the Top 100 Most Creative People list in this issue that led to a really interesting article at Fast Companies. Then my sister came in and we had a talk about sorting out my workspace. That led to my searching for shelving solution at Ikea and looking at my desk thinking about what I want for my new box, and started looking at some new chassis and cpu fans. Then back to Ikea, Home Depot for organization ideas for this tiny space. And back to research for LED components..on and on…and at one point as I was going through the new product section, critiquing the design to myself and appreciating the company’s commitment to the environment. Then I had a thought while I was plotting on how to purge, I remembered how old computers are recycled…and found an article about it. How the components are striped by hands and thrown in an open coal fire in the middle of a small family town in rural China. The women are exposed to dioxin that is also passed down to their infants. You know the rest. This added another item in my life-to-do list to volunteer at a NGO to help these rural women to find alternative source of income. Providing them with choices knowing that there is always an alternative method or a chance, no one on earth should be going through this kind of downward spiral.

Changing the world by providing sustainable choices is a goal I hope to achieve in some way. I have a lot of respect and admiration for individuals who makes the effort from behind the scene.