Man's Search For Meaning

This is a story/post that I wrote for another one of my blogs.

People want life to have meaning. Webster defines meaning as "the end, purpose, or significance of something." I'll start with the end. If something has meaning, it is not discovered until the end as stated by the definition. Nobody knows what the meaning of their life is until life is at its end. Everyone’s life has some sort of meaning. Any person living for the average time span of life will have purpose or significance in some way. Every single person on the planet affects at least one person in a positive or negative way. For some they will have saved a life without ever knowing it, others will be known as heroes. And yet still others will inadvertently hurt someone indefinitely and others will hurt someone on purpose. So if meaning does not come until the end, why does it feel like everyone is searching for it? People tend to fear the end, yet they want to know the meaning of their life which, as defined, cannot come until the end. Kind of selfish mind set to want to know how your life will pan out before ever living it. Before people try to find the meaning of their life, maybe we should not be worried about the end, and be worried more about the present. Meaning comes at the end and nobody knows when the end will be. Live life to the fullest because life was made for living, so why not take the glass of life and fill it to the brim until it overflows and becomes meaning that every person’s life inevitably will become.

By: Chris Murphy

Spybot S&D and CCleaner

Adware and Spyware are two terms that I am sure you have heard of before. Adware is software with advertising functions integrated into or bundled with a program. It is usually seen by the programmer as a way to recover programming development costs, and in some cases it may allow the program to be provided to the user free of charge or at a reduced price. The advertising income may allow or motivate the programmer to continue to write, maintain and upgrade the software product. Spyware is computer software that is installed surreptitiously on a personal computer to intercept or take partial control over the user's interaction with the computer, without the user's informed consent.
Spyware is the more dangerous of the two. Adware is more of a way for the creator of software to make money from his work, whereas spyware is a way for the creator of a program to steal information of some sort from the user. Spyware might be completely harmless and just want to know information on what sites are most visited in order to advertise better, however, this is violation of privacy.
The most common ways for your computer to get spyware and adware is by downloading a program which contains them. A lot of peer to peer programs will contain these as well as some other seemingly harmless programs such as WeatherBug. In order to check my computer I used Spybot Search & Destroy. And in order to clear my computer's history of me I used CCleaner.

Spybot Running it's search


Spybot found 2 different types of spyware. I am not suprised because i have downloaded a few programs that seemed a little fishy.


CCleaner after it has finished.


After running CCleaner once, the second time around deletes alot less files.

Charlie!

One of the funniest videos I have ever seen.

Intro

Hello all and welcome to my newest blog. This is not my first blog, nor is it my only blog. I have quite a few for various reasons. I have not kept an updated blog in quite a while, however, and It has been around two months or so since my last post.

I was born in Winfield, Illinois on June 24 in the wonderful year of 1989. Two months after my glorious entrance to the world I moved to Sugarland, Texas. I lived there for five years when my parents informed me that we were to be going on a very extended vacation to Singapore. I lived there for three years, possibly the most adventerous years of my life in which I traveled around the world. My next destination in my life was Geneva, Illinois where I spent the next four years of my life. Now I am currently located in Yardley, Pennsylvania. I have lived there for five years and am moving to the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. I am a freshman student at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.

And here is a funny video.