Standing at a busy intersection of a major city, allowing the light from the bright-red flashing advertisements to assail my retinas. What goes through the minds of each tunnel-visioned pedestrian as he or she scurries through the crowd?

The cacophony blur of roaring motorists trickles through the mind. Brief snippets of cell phone conversations, emergency sirens and the general din of the city shivers through my physics. It’s a rogues gallery of pungent meat vendors and inconvenient beggars.

An impressive patchwork of thoughts, images and smells emitted by kings,  jesters, villains and saints. You can smell the exhale of the city, touch the anxieties of existence and hear the acute presence of death and life as it comes to terms with itself.

And now there are micro-worlds uncharted. They turn the system inside out, and expand in the opposite direction. A freudian dream come true. An open marketplace of freely accessable musings, insecurities, desires and vexations.

This landscape is complex, and each generation adds a new layer of tools to those used by the last – a self-generating exponential equation. A woven fabric, where each thread multiplies the possibility of the one laid beside.

The inner soul laid bare. Those intangible forces so real they start wars and build walls. They are now free to explore and cannabalise themselves like Ouroboros, and emerge anew with deeper understanding of the state of their own matter.

I was running version 2.2 just 2 days ago, and all I had to do was swap out a bunch of files, run the update page, and presto, version 2.5 is sputtering along. Anyway, most of the changes are behind the scenes, and more for the owners/writers to enjoy.

The interface is simpler, more minimal, there’s a full-port writing mode, more plugins for the dashboard and quite a few other options. What a rush!… (Have I shown myself to be a geek yet?) I have noticed quite a few bugs, but nothing to shy away from.

In other news, I’ll be creating the new blog for indusblue/oneMethod and we’ll be using WordPress 2.5 for that as well. My boss is adamant that it be the cleanest, slickest most professional blog ever, so I will, unexpectedly, be spending some time learning a thing or two about WordPress and blogging in general.

Already, I’ve absorbed the wonderful (and not-so-wonderful) world of plug-ins, with more to come with respect to design! The indusblue/oneMethod blog will be developed along a more rigid framework than the ghostmonk journal, so when all is finished with that, I will be setting my sites on updating the design and functionality the engine you are reading. Most importantly the design… cause man do I hate it these days… what was I thinking?

Lovely creature, eating the garbage from an inconsiderate neighbor’s disheveled backyard. Taking this picture caused inner torment. It felt exploitive, almost as dirty as the backyard that lured the beast to this incompatible setting.

She was frightened, she scurried up a tree. She was unexpectedly agile for her portly frame. Regardless, she was impressive. Even while dining on human discard, she is more noble than I with my camera.