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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 2, 2009 8:17:05 GMT
For a long time, I've wanted to document my own thoughts so that I can sort them out, challenge them and so on. Plus, the sheer amount of it is overwhelming my head and I keep forgetting things.  I'm now using a private wiki but have found it increasingly difficult to sort out the content, in terms of classification like sub-categories, tables, links, etc. And yes, I've resorted to placing my thoughts online 'cos of many , multiple factors. Do people think a full-featured wiki like Mediawiki would suffice? *just thinking* Man... then there's the problem of finding a host too. -_-;; Given the content that's highly sensitive, I'm not sure if making the wiki "private" would be even enough. |
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Post by janggut on Jul 2, 2009 9:12:35 GMT
buy yourself a sticky board & paste it on the wall next to your bed or wherever u spend most of your waking hours at home. carry a notebook (made of paper) & a small sized pen with u at all times so u can record down whatever that comes in2 your mind then paste the notes on your sticky board.
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Post by twoheadedragon on Jul 2, 2009 9:18:02 GMT
For a long time, I've wanted to document my own thoughts so that I can sort them out, challenge them and so on. Plus, the sheer amount of it is overwhelming my head and I keep forgetting things. I'm now using a private wiki but have found it increasingly difficult to sort out the content, in terms of classification like sub-categories, tables, links, etc. And yes, I've resorted to placing my thoughts online 'cos of many , multiple factors. Do people think a full-featured wiki like Mediawiki would suffice? *just thinking* Man... then there's the problem of finding a host too. -_-;; Given the content that's highly sensitive, I'm not sure if making the wiki "private" would be even enough. Well, it'll never be 100% private if it's online... Perhaps Janggut's idea, or getting yourself a diary, or typing it in a Word Document (not online) would be a more feasible option, you could even e-mail it/portions of it to select people if that's the main reason you want to have it online. |
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 2, 2009 12:10:38 GMT
Thanks for all the suggestions!  Actually, I can't and won't put any content in anything that's not computer/internet-based. There're too many reasons involved. Mainly that if it gets into the wrong hands, I could get into deep trouble. Yeah, I don't mind it being partially leaked out as long as I can password-protect the site by constantly changing the passwords(hash lengths and so on), moving the site and so on. Well, I need to organise the data so that I can keep adding internal and external links to various articles and books... hmmm.. It's not just 1 to 2 pages of data but over a few hundred pages worth of thoughts, definitions about society, politics, people, etc. And they'll evolve over time... that's the issue. I've just listed out like 1% of all my thoughts.  Word doc? Hmmm... |
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Post by Flix on Jul 2, 2009 12:25:19 GMT
I have a really powerful, ultra-private supercomputer where I store all that stuff.... ...it's my brain.  ;D |
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 2, 2009 12:33:29 GMT
Sadly... I can't remember everything. Bah... looks like there's no other way out except to find hosting at some site. Then again, either way, it's pretty risky and if I'm caught, I'd probably be detained without trial anyways. |
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Post by Elliot Kane on Jul 2, 2009 14:26:07 GMT
Luci - why not create a forum, set it to private and make yourself the only member? That way, you can create new sections as and when you need them and write up everything as posts within the relevant section. Might work |
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Post by twoheadedragon on Jul 2, 2009 15:16:09 GMT
I have a really powerful, ultra-private supercomputer where I store all that stuff.... ...it's my brain. ;D That's two of us, Flix! @ Sonar Chicken: Elliot's way sounds the best to me, I'd advise following through with it. The only ones who could access it would be extremely advanced-level geeks, but I don't see what interest they'd take in a one-person forum. |
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Post by LaFille on Jul 2, 2009 20:02:25 GMT
You can also just use software on your comp and upload your files to a back-up storage website or to an e-mail account like Gmail. You could also set-up a private blog just for yourself.
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Post by killerzzz on Jul 3, 2009 6:06:13 GMT
Elliot's idea is pretty good.
As for the Word docs, you can organize them too. As long as you don't move them around, you can make hyperlinks between them as if on the internet, but right from one doc on your computer to another. You can set up an index, sub categories, and organize them. Mind you it can take a little time to do, and you need to make sure you keep everything where it is.
Or.... you probably can also make one huge document, and use stuff like page-breaks to separate stuff and use internal hyperlinks or a Ctr-F Find function-based index. I think... If you take that path, be sure to save several copies in case one gets corrupt.
Killerzzz
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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Jul 3, 2009 8:59:02 GMT
if it's really sensitive can i recommend using true crypt and creating a hidden encrypted volumn on an encrypted drive. That way if you are compelled to give up the encryption keys you can just give up the keys to the public encrypted drive, and there's no way for them to tell if there's another encrypted drive there.
The one thing you do need to be careful of with any electronic storage (on computers, not so true on other devices) is that when the computer is running low on memory, it swaps stuff to disk, so there may be un-encrypted information on your computer that should be secure, and isn't because it was swapped out.
Also Online storage is far less secure than offline storage because it is out of your control (a court can issue a court order to compell the company to release the information)
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 3, 2009 11:16:28 GMT
Hmm... I've been debating whether keeping information online or offline is really safe. If I were to protect my hard disk, just the fact that I applied encryption could well become grounds for "admission of guilt" that I thought of hiding something. Whether the data is there or not, is of little importance: it's the "thought" which is a crime. As long as I'm suspected of "something", I'm already "guilty". The law of "innocent until guilty" is not applicable to traitors of the system/country. If I put it online, I'm just as screwed... you know what? Sod it.  I'll just put it on a site for now and then... I'll take things as they come. I'm not a big fry and not worth anyone's attention. Besides, if I get caught, they will probably detain me without trial for indefinite length. It doesn't matter how much I try to protect myself, I'll be in trouble just for the ability to think analytically and speak critically. |
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 3, 2009 11:37:43 GMT
Have applied to www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ and made clear my intentions as well as some of the possible content of the site. If they don't want to host me, fine. I'll just find someone else. |
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Post by janggut on Jul 5, 2009 4:30:51 GMT
Sonar Chix, are u walking down Aung San Suu Kyi's path?  |
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 5, 2009 4:46:53 GMT
No but I was looking up information about my country's history: various operations, various arrests, various events, etc. I don't believe in things like "self-sacrifice", "being a martyr for the people" 'cos nothing will change as long as the circumstances that induce ignorance, etc. are still there. I don't see the point in taking that path of all those "activists from the past" 'cos you will pay too high a price.
With information technology around, there're better and more subtle ways of spreading information and awareness around than radical techniques like bombs and self-starvation as a form of protest, etc. which what quite a few activists have done.
And no, I'm not an activist. I just like to read up on certain blogs and put in comments.
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Post by janggut on Jul 5, 2009 5:42:14 GMT
what i'd like to do for my own country as well, u know that backward neighbour, Malaysia. ;D
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 5, 2009 5:50:27 GMT
It's a slow and long path, though. Yet I doubt I'll ever stop searching for answers. Oh? You've been slowly researching as well? |
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Post by twoheadedragon on Jul 5, 2009 9:40:50 GMT
what i'd like to do for my own country as well, u know that backward neighbour, Malaysia. ;D Compared to my beloved Indonesia, Malaysia is a highly advanced country. And you call it backward? |
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 5, 2009 11:26:14 GMT
Well, one thing I can say is that: in many parts of Asia, people's rights are being tested: whether class, gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity or religious, political, etc. and you pay for it in terms of loss of history, history being rewritten, fear, paranoia, jail sentences, home confinements, exiles, torture, death, etc. It doesn't matter whether it's a transvestite or a preacher or a teacher, as long as someone gets clamped down on by the police or even get shot at or killed for "disobeying" them and so on, I don't think there will be much of any peace or rights. And I suspect that when the police/government have run out of targets to oppress, they'll then turn to the other groups so that they can maintain their grips on power and distract the population by making them all fight one another. Anyways, I can only hope that this period of upheaval will move on soon.  But I think the next 5, 10, 20 years will be a very painful period as the people everywhere will be forced to do a lot of soul-searching or if not, risk deadly confrontations should they refuse to reject the concept that "these words, ideas, concepts, etc. are absolute" and sit down and discuss. <--- crappy english there ;D As to why exactly... this is happening: I'm not too sure. :/ I haven't exactly worked out the very root of this issue. I just hope that whatever happens, there won't be widespread massacres of humans. |
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 5, 2009 11:57:44 GMT
That said, you two ought to tell me a little of what's been going on in your countries. My knowledge of events in Asia is kinda horrific. Indonesia: I don't remember much but I recall the clashes between various groups of people. Very deadly, very nasty. And Suharto and uhm... ? Malaysia: a lot of crackdowns for a huge amount of reasons? Errr... I do recall though that especially for detainment of people under the ISA, the lawyers moved in to defend them? You know, I just realised that my knowledge of Asia has been fairly pathetic. It's also got to do with the fact that I can't read any Malay, Indonesian(what's that language that's spoken there?), etc., etc. Oh and don't be horrified: Malay is supposedly Singapore's national language. Yet, the government has discouraged people from speaking too much of it and other languages/dialects, apart from English. Though they recently encouraged Mandarin but uhm... many tv channels, etc. are heavily regulated and oh yeah, the various ethnicities aren't encouraged to mix. Having friendships with non-Chinese is very hard: all of them haven't lasted. :/ Actually, many people here don't really have lasting friendships: we just throw away one another like how the government treats us. Gah... I'm rambling. ;D |
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Word doc? Hmmm... 
I'll just put it on a site for now and then... I'll take things as they come. 
But I think the next 5, 10, 20 years will be a very painful period as the people everywhere will be forced to do a lot of soul-searching or if not, risk deadly confrontations should they refuse to reject the concept that "these words, ideas, concepts, etc. are absolute" and sit down and discuss. <--- crappy english there ;D