Ewrick's Rabbit Hole

Internet is a fan­tastic and cre­ative way we got to reflect the intri­cacies of our cre­ations, and also the ease with which we can manifest.

Think of how easy it is to order the last book or DVD — even if it has a very dis­creet dis­tri­b­ution on some remote part of the world, there is always a means to get it.

Back from a trip in Malaysia in the Cameron high­lands (see pic) in 2001 (shortly after Sep­tember), I was so enthu­si­astic about the atmos­phere, the images I had in my head of that gor­geous part of the Earth, that I wanted to order some of the B.O.H. tea they produce locally. A little googling, et voilà, a few weeks later, I got some man­darin flavoured tea and other del­i­cacies, right in our dead-and-alive hole without much of a trouble.

On the con­trary, when we are beginning to get accus­tomed to so much ease and rapidity, it can be extremely frus­trating when things don’t happen as quickly as they could.

Yes­terday was a dis­con­certing day, because when I was setting up this site, there was a time frame were the new addresses were prop­a­gating on the worldwide web, and there is no way to control the process or know exactly when it will be right.

At some points, other people could see the new addresses but I couldn’t yet, because it had not yet prop­a­gated to my ISP (Internet Service Provider).
But, the fun part was that I could use a proxy (another com­puter some­where on the Internet which allows me to “see” through it) that was able to get the new redi­rection right.

In any case, there is a moment where it’s all about trusting that every­thing will fall into place, and relax into the process. Just like when Windows asks for a nth reboot after having installed some new updates, just when you’re in a middle of a con­ver­sation and it slows down every­thing to the point of making nothing work at all.
The good thing is that being such a geek, I can move my attention to another com­puter, and let the Windows one do its stuff in the back­ground without worrying.

And it works. It’s not nec­es­sarily quicker, but at least it’s much less annoying…

Back to the Internet metaphor, there is some­thing that struck me with the address relo­cation episode, and that’s the fact that you don’t always see the same thing as the others depending on where you are on the web.
When I was in China, it was quite funny at times, because I was always won­dering whether or not what I was seeing was fil­tered out (though I could still use proxies, as I explained before, to make that sure).
Back in France, where things are not sup­posed to be fil­tered out of political, reli­gious, or such other bias, I tended to forget that, and mainly stopped ques­tioning what I was seeing.

This morning again, every­thing seemed to be so slow that I won­dered where was the “weak link”. After all, it could be any­where. It could be some tech­nical defect into my own con­nection, or of my ISP con­nection, or the host of the website, or even in the worse case, some­thing related to the Internet cables (like it did happen in Asia some time ago).

Appar­ently, looking at the con­nec­tivity stats of my web host, it seemed like it was due to some repet­itive attacks from bots on some of there servers which had slowed down everyone hosted on these servers.

Bots are not evil… (they spell with a B like beliefs). They are doing auto­matic tasks, and very effec­tively. I link them to how much I am present to myself, and how many auto­matic reac­tions I get towards certain beliefs…

How did the web-host solved these attacks? Well, good thing you ask. By rerouting the bots to another server…

Moving your attention again, and let things fall into place…

written by Yuki \\ tags: attention, internet, manifestation, proxy