Jahemian

The mind of an uneducated fool: Google is not as innovative as you think

Posted on: May 15th, 2013 by jahemian

Yo. lo.

I’ve been playing with an idea for a few years in my head – The great idea to write exactly what I think about controversial things, or not even things that are controversial, but things that annoy me or things I discover to not be true (or false). It would be funny because I’m not very intelligent (lets not lie), yet I may just raise some interesting points! Plus I love a good debate that could potentially start in the comments!

The reason I haven’t done this yet (I ALWAYS have so many good ideas!) is because I SUCK AT WRITING. My sentence structure sucks. Like my opening sentence  “Yo. Lo.”. That’s how I start blogs.. randomly. Because how else do you do it? I read plenty of blogs, but obviously I haven’t learnt how to OPEN a blog post. I guess next time I’ll just LAUNCH into the speech.

The reason I bring this up NOW is because it’s come to my attention that Google isn’t as innovative as everyone thinks. I shit you not. It appears to me right now that the only thing Google has done on it’s own is the algorithm for Google Search (Or, BackRub…) called “PageRank”. That’s it… Everything else, they bought, even then there is a very similar one patented by another guy.. But lets not go there.

Youtube? Not theirs. Blogger – Created by Pyra Labs. Hell, I even though Google Docs (Or, Google Drive) might of been a great insight of their own, but nope, they bought out a company called Writley.  Cloud computing? Obviously not, even I know Google wasn’t first at that. Google Glasses? I’m willing to bet someone else had the idea and/or technology before Google got a hold of it. Hell, their flagship “Nexus” phones are manufactured by LG (I think Samsung had a Nexus at one point?). Sure, they own Motorolla Mobile now, but it was already an established company!

How did I come to this conclusion that Google is good for nothing but advertising? (Because that’s where 96% of it’s revenue comes from!). Because I’m doing a report where I must pick a company that is innovative. Now, I’m doing it so close to the hand in date, I was just like “Fuck it, Google’s pretty awesome, lets do Google”. Turns out NO. Hardly anything that is “Google” branded was actually CREATED by Google. Sure, they took over the company and now it’s “Google” branded (Android was not actually created by Google!), but the starting product wasn’t a created by existing Google programmers / developers.

I feel a bit let down. I always thought Google employees where so smart, only to find out Google just BUYS the smart people. Sure it’s great for them.. But it fucked up my damn report. I still have to go with it anyway cuz this damn this is due on Friday and today is Wednesday. ARGH.

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Doubting myself.

Posted on: April 16th, 2013 by jahemian

I’m on my mid term break for uni. I’ve broken down a few times. I’ve learnt that I shouldn’t leave things till last minute, and that Jareds parents are really helpful.

I still doubt myself. I really hate chemistry. It’s hard for me to get my head around it. The last five minutes I’ve been trying to figure out WHY I HAVE to add H2O to a redox reaction.. Espcially one that doesn’t have hydrogen in it to start with. I just can’t grasp the idea. Jared says it’s because the reaction occurs in H2O. Well.. Shouldn’t that of been in the reaction in the first place? Why was it left out? I JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND.

I started crying because I don’t get it. I cry a lot. There are heaps of things I don’t understand.

There also the fact that we have had to do 5 short reports… and I’ve failed them all. Thinking I’ve done my best, only to get them back saying “it needs more information”.

I haven’t even finished my first semister and I want to give up and just go back to milking cows. It’s a lot easier.

I keep thinking of the nice things I want when I graduate. A nice house, a fancy car, a happy home for a family. But it doesn’t make me stop crying. It doesn’t help my head understand these things that seem so stupid to me. I’m trying to fight against chemistry that’s been proven just because I don’t understand it so it must be wrong.

I want to go to bed and just not wake up sometimes. I feel so ashamed that I’m failing. I’m doing what I’ve dreamed of for 3 years, and I suck at it.

I hate the way I think.

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North Island Holiday, 2013!

Posted on: February 22nd, 2013 by jahemian

It’s been a week since I’ve gotten back form holiday. While it’s great to be home and sleeping in my own bed, I do miss the small amount of time we spent camping and visiting family! Jared and I traveled (by car) to the North Island on Feb the 1st and came back on the 15th. :)

I have A LOT of pictures to show! All the good ones can be found here. But I’ll put some good ones up here too!

A run down of our holiday would make for a long post, so I guess I’ll run down only the awesome things!

We camped for the first week. The place I enjoyed the most was Broken Hill in the Corromandel. It was so peaceful and quiet! Hardly anyone was there, Jared and I had a little sectioned off bit of land to ourselfs. Before we got there, we took a wrong turn and ended up right on the opposite side of where we should of been. It was a HUGE wrong turn to say the lest.

The camp site had running water, and long drop toilets! They toilets didn’t smell, as they had some kind of chimney that filtered out the stench I guess.

When we stayed in Taupo, Jared took me on a walk to Huka falls. The walk was supposed to take one hour each way (it was not a looped track), I learnt that I am very out of shape. I guess I already knew that, but the website said the walk was supposed to be “easy”. I struggled as it was hilly and…. long. I’ve decided since then that once I get more fitter from going to the gym, I’d love to take more walks with Jared, as the end result and seeing birds etc is a great experience that’s something cheap we can both enjoy.

We also headed to Wai-O-Tapu, a geothermal “wonderland”. I found it way to expensive. It was about $35 to enter, and there’s only about 28 “attractions”. I was dissapointed because some “attractions” where just holes, nothing in them at all. I was also expecting some kind of explosions. Nothing… The most interesting thing I saw on the whole walk was a huge lake that hot water went into. There was barely any information on this pitiular lake, yet there was info on small holes with nothing in them. I wouldn’t go back there, and I would recommend people go else wear if you don’t want to spend so much money. Jared said he had to take me there because his mom told him to… I would of rather gone horse riding…

We didn’t really do much in terms of sight seeing. Being a passenger was great though, I could look around at forest etc, it was great! We didn’t share the driving like we intended, Jared didn’t get very tired! The longest driving we did was driving home.

I visited my mum and sister, it was so great to see them. My sister has shot up and is really tall!

Me and Georga

Need to lose some weight… Yesh…

Mum only has one more semister left of tech. I’m so proud that she’s gone through and done it. I think she’ll make a great nurse!

I also visted my dad, unfortunatly I didn’t get any photos. It was just a really quick visit on the way home, so we just stopped for lunch. It was great to see him, and I found out he and his partner has stopped smoking! Not only is he saving money, but the house smells nice instead of.. disgusting…

He’s unforunatly been diagnosed with  Fibromyalgia and has had to quit his job. His land lords found out and have offered to loan him money for a course he can to that’ll help him get better. I’m so glad he’s going to do it, he’s suffered his whole life. His move to Nelson from Auckland has done him good!

I also got the chance to visit Nellie! It was so awesome to finally meet her! We only meet for a short time, but it was well worth it. :) I hope next time I’m up those ways I can visit for a bit longer. :)

I don’t really have much more to say… Budget wise we stayed under $2k, which was pretty good! That even included two bras I bought.. Bra’s a damn expensive…

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Flat hunting, job hunting, money hunting.

Posted on: January 20th, 2013 by jahemian

This past month has been a little stressful, and as I get closer to leaving work and going on a long awaited holiday, I’m starting to think maybe I should of stayed at work until like, the day before  uni. This past month I’ve been flat hunting, job hunting and had lame news from Studylink that I won’t be getting money to go towards books until mid year. Even though it’s a totally differenent course. So now, I need to money hunt.

Money hunting? I look at my bank account often and hunt for where the hidden money from the past 3 months has gone. Sure I’ve been saving. But it’s gone towards the holiday and SUPPOSED to be for a few weeks rent. On top of that I STILL need to pay Jared $500~ for my computer. I don’t even have the $1000 saved for our holiday. I have, however, payed off my overdraft, so at lest I’m not “IN DEBT” (not counting student loan etc).

Flat hunting? I don’t know how many emails I’ve sent the past 2 months regarding a flat in late January, it surely must be well over 80+. I’ve only viewed around 5. This is because:

  1. No one replies to the emails, I assume they’re inundated with emails / calls /texts
  2. They pick people before I view, because I live out of town I can’t drive in as soon as the advert is listed to check the house
  3. They pick other people when I do view, because I’m not awesome enough.

It really has me stressed and down. Fortunately I have two friends both who have offered storage, and my boss has said I can temp stay at their place. This will mainly be for when they go on holiday and I look after their animals like usual, but he’s going when I get back from holiday, so it gives me maybe another month to flat hunt.

The reason it’s so hard to find a flat is because of the damn earth quakes. The housing crisis in Christchurch is just crazy. Tomorrow I do have some houses booked in to view, but one is a one bedroom communal apartment thing… Which I think comes furnished, which isn’t what I want. I need a large room OR somewhere to store a large Glory box. I was for a short time considering renting a small 1 bedroom place, but they’re so expensive, on top of power, food, transport (I want to take the bus, not my car), internet and phone line + cell phone, it’s way to expensive!

And job hunting, well. I’ve just been turned down for a job at Maccers. NO ONE has replied to my requests for jobs or interviews. Except for a hardware company, but that was an automated email.

Things are not looking up for my new life as a full time uni student. Even my current boss isn’t sure he wants me to stay on as a casual. (The Operations manager, not my actual manager, he wants me to stay on full time… woops).

I know everything should fall into place. But when?

 

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Online Auction sites;

Posted on: January 14th, 2013 by jahemian

This year while attending uni, I’m going to be flatting! Because I don’t have many friends, or enough friends to go flatting with, I need to find a flat close to university or a bus stop. The only way I can think of doing this is by looking at online Auction sites such as Trademe and Bananas4free.

Lets start off with talking about Trademe. I think it is one of NZ’s first auctions sites, and for a long time it was the only one, I’ve bought a ton of things off there. But in recent years they’ve put huge prices on listing things. For example, I went to see how much it would cost to list my car, and they wanted a cut of the money to list it! That wasn’t happening, I needed to sell my car to get out of debt, not owe a company money for! And this week because I am so desperate for a flat, I’ve posted in the wrong section “Flatmates wanted”, asking if anyone has a room available  This cost me $9 to bloody list the damn advert, then $6 two get it featured, which was an option, and I really want this ad to be viewed, so I took it. So far I’ve had one email in regards to it. But I don’t think I’ll get much more except annoyed people emailing asking “why on earth you posted this ad in this section?”

Trademe doesn’t have a “wanted” section, which should include “FLATS wanted”. On top of this, you’re not even allowed to post “wanted” ads on the MB.

Numerous sites have popped up since Trademe has put it’s fee’s up. I sold my car on Sella.co.nz, which Jared didn’t think was possible, because there is so less people there.

Anyhow, I don’t want to talk about Sella (which is also free…), I want to talk about bananas4free. Why do I love this website? Because it has wanted areas, I listed “FLAT wanted” under… You guessed it, “FLATS WANTED”. How much did it set me back? Nothing. Nada. It’s absolutely free. You can even integrate your Twitter into the sidebar so people can know a bit about you, add a link to your website?  Sure thing! Want to chat with the seller or something because sometimes emailing just isn’t enough? Yep. You can do that! (provided the seller is online..)

My only issue with bananas4free? NO ONE IS THERE. This is what happens to all the new auction sites, hardly anyone signs up, and if they do it’s just to look around. People who want to sell things don’t want to list things there because no-one is around. EG: My partners mum wanted to sell her Kindle, I suggested she go over to bananas4free and sell it, give them a chance! If I sold my car on Sella, surely you can sell a Kindle on this new website? But she didn’t! She didn’t want to list there because hardly anyone uses the place.

BUT PEOPLE DON’T USE IT BECAUSE NOTHING IS LISTED!

At the time of writing this, I am the ONLY classified under “Flats wanted”, there isn’t even anything under “flatMATES wanted”.

So COME ON New Zealand!! Head over to bananas4free.co.nz and LIST SOME STUFF you want to sell. Perhaps you’re seeking something ? THEN PUT AN AD UP! DO IT!

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Welcome (again!) to Jahemian.com!

Posted on: January 12th, 2013 by jahemian

Sup?

I was silly and transferred a domain over without thinking about the multipul posts I’d recently made regarding “Where I’ve lived”. Oh well.

I’m Jana, if you didn’t already know! I’m the owner of this site. I’ve just shifted the domain from a free host I had to 24/7 hosting. Why? Because it has 5 domains and I was only using one. Stupid excuse I know.

Anyhow, in my last post on the previous website, I mentioned how I deleted Facebook, and what a change it has done! Do you know that I coded this theme from the ground up? With Facebook, I would of been so distracted! The amount of times I’ve gone to make a theme and just ended up on Facebook fucking around… I did this theme with help from a Lynda.com torrent (YAY FOR ILLEGAL THINGS THAT ARE NOT MUSIC!). I designed it myself, not that there is much designing, the only “images” are the texture used for the background and the social icons, which took 30 minutes to find the right set. I know, right? 30 minutes to find a set of social icons. Why? Because I couldn’t find a set I liked with a MAIL icon. How does a social icon set not have a mail icon? Seriously?

If there are any bugs, or the font looks funny on your screen, please let me know! Jared says this font is hard to read (The one you’re reading RIGHT NOW! Not the header titles), but I can read it OK, then again I’ve been steering at it for the past two days.

Anyhow, the countdown is on till Jared and mine’s holiday! Only a few more weeks to go! We’ll be traveling the North Island. I’m really excited, we’ve planned to meet up with my Popa who is on his way SOUTH. We’re going to catch him in Taupo.

I can’t wait for this trip, I can’t wait to just relax and drive! Listen to good music, although Jared and I have very different music tastes, I think we’ll be able to share who’s ipod gets connected! I can’t to be swimming in rivers and lakes up and down New Zealand, showing Jared my favorite swimming spot, I’m excited about showing Jared the town I used to call home, and seeing my mum and sister and other family members along the way! I love summer, I hope it doesn’t end in a hurry!

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