Where is David?

This blog is on a bit of a hiatus, but will resume shortly. I’m in the middle of some big events in my life, more details to come.

I’m not really one to read blogs much on the internet, but if you’re interested in an interesting take on Southeast Asia, I’d recommend checking this one out:

New Mandala

It’s a blog by some mostly Australian-based academics with some intriguing insights into mainland Southeast Asia, definitely worth a read if you’re into that kind of thing…it’s definitely on my RSS reading list.

this site is going throught some cosmetic and other changes…..I’m working on getting a better image gallery and hopefully will have a new design in a little bit. Bear with this template for a while…thanks.

Have you ever wondered what life was like 200 years ago? Let’s see…that would be about 1806, Napoleon is still hanging around Europe, electricity is still just a theory, and the Louisiana Purchase was only recently completed.
If you consider your average generation to be 25 years, that would mean I had approximately 8 generations in between now and then, which would be my great (times 5) grandparents were alive at the time, all 128 of them. (of course, this is probably not the case, but just using average figures here)

Anyways, my point is, of my 128 relatives alive at the time, I know absolutely nothing about them. Sure, there are some family stories about some distant relative doing something or another, but this information is very sparse and difficult to confirm.

What’s going to change in the future, however, is the internet is basically going to be a huge time capsule. There are sites out there that record everything that happens on the internet, possibly the most famous is archive.org. It’s interesting (to me, at least) to think that in the future, perhaps my (and your) distant relatives will be combing through the internet, researching their ancestors, trying to discover where they come from.

I guess they’ll have lots of information to sift through. I can barely find emails in my inbox, so can’t imagine what it will be like to do historical research using the internet in the future. Hopefully Google will still be around.

So to all you in the future, I’d like to say hello and welcome to my webpage. (By the way, sorry about global warming)

turned the comment feature back on for this ‘blog’…feel free to write what you think about what I’m saying on here, or just to say hi to me (and everyone else who reads this thing)

Not 100% certain what Net Neutrality means and why I should be for it, and maybe after watching this video you’ll feel the same way.

I’m always curious about who (if anyone) reads this content. I hardly receive any email at my address for this site (my first name @ this websites’ domain) so sometimes I have to check the server statistics to make sure I’m not just talking to myself here. One interesting feature is I can see how people arrive at this page. Most people arrive directly, which means they type the address whereisdavid.com into their browser or they click a bookmark or something. However, about 5% apparently arrive via some sort of search engine, and due to the wonders of modern nerdiness, I can actually find out what these people search for when coming to my site. Here’s the list of the top 10 phrases that bring people to this site: