Sadly I learnt recently that a dear friend passed away in an unfortunate accident. He was someone who gave feedback throughout on this blog and I counted as someone when I was younger that I could always look up to and talk to.
Back in the heyday of the internet he used to be an administrator on an IRC (internet relay chat) room that was about Dubai. About 14 years ago I joined the channel and found the most entertaining thing to do was to spam the channel repeatedly until I got banned. Being curious about the internet I discovered I could just disconnect my modem and reconnect and spam until I got banned again.
Flurdoing was one of those people that would still take the time to talk to you regardless of how stupid you were. He invited me to his own private IRC network where I spent several years of high school talking too much about day to day life.
I spammed that IRC network so much that Flurdoing actually personally programmed a bot to give me a predetermined amount of lines that I was allowed to spam each day.
Eventually sensing I could turn all those lines into something productive I started this blog; flurdoing took time out of his today to provide feedback throughout. Even emailing me from time to time using his work account.
Back in the heyday of the internet he used to be an administrator on an IRC (internet relay chat) room that was about Dubai. About 14 years ago I joined the channel and found the most entertaining thing to do was to spam the channel repeatedly until I got banned. Being curious about the internet I discovered I could just disconnect my modem and reconnect and spam until I got banned again.
Flurdoing was one of those people that would still take the time to talk to you regardless of how stupid you were. He invited me to his own private IRC network where I spent several years of high school talking too much about day to day life.
I spammed that IRC network so much that Flurdoing actually personally programmed a bot to give me a predetermined amount of lines that I was allowed to spam each day.
Eventually sensing I could turn all those lines into something productive I started this blog; flurdoing took time out of his today to provide feedback throughout. Even emailing me from time to time using his work account.
The world has lost a truly special person.
RIP flurdoing.
RIP flurdoing.
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5 comments:
Sam:
Look at this way, you lost flurdoing but you are what you are today because of him. A better person. So, cherish that and try to move on.
Oh, and the UCB, that was really an amazing experience for us especially when we newly arrived in Dubai about 3 years ago. I wish it comes back to life again but like you wrote sometime ago, the charm of debates has been lost to the micro likes of Tumblr, Facebook & Twitter.
Would be nice if there was some kind of page telling you that you typed in the two words correctly instead of just refreshing, making you type the comment 50 times thinking it didn't work the first time.
Way back when the Dubai blog scene was something, Flur once said to me, "You and Sam have no idea the power you've got in those blogs of yours."
I agree Dubai is one huge building site and I cannot see that changing before they run out of money. Which may be another 50 to 80 years away. Thanks great article by the way.
whatever happened is happened.
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