Searching for an Identity
Ever since I launched my first personal web site, www.ocomik.com, I knew the sites identity would be based around technology. It was a given. No doubts. No questions asked. Technology, and my experiences with it, would be the thesis.
I didn't have much of an interest in sharing personal experiences with my readers outside of those dealing with technology. After all, I tend to be a very private person and as such didn't find any value in discussing my private life with strangers over the Web.
During the summer of 2005, while running the music web site TheMusicNeverStopped.net, I came to the realization that I was too focused on technology, causing me to neglect many of the things in my life that were valuable to me.
It was at this time that I vowed to bring balance back to my life and to put first those people and things that had gone by the wayside.
FIN ACK (www.finack.net), in many ways, is the swan song of this previous period. It's funny because I was looking to rebrand ocomik.net to a domain name that had a higher geek quotient and that would also be a suitable title for writing about a broader range of topics*. Today it serves as a pointer to the past, an outdated, irrelevant title in need of an upgrade.
Since last year, the one word that continues to pervade my thoughts, as it relates to technology, is frustration. Maybe it's because I'm getting older and my patience isn't what it used to be, maybe it's because the return it provides pales in comparison to that of other activities, maybe its the never ending cycles of upgrades and repairs, or maybe I'm just getting tired of the chase. Whatever it is, I just want the technology I use in my personal life to work and work the first time. Hence when it doesn't, I become frustrated - a frustrated geek.
So like a phoenix rising from the fire (boy is that cliched), FIN ACK will take on the more fitting title of Frustrated Geek.
*In general terms, FIN ACK refers to the last action a computer performs to break off communication, i.e.it's the last word in the conversation between computers. In my eyes, FINACK.NET was to be my last word on any subject for which I wished to write.