Sometimes the only way to move forward is to break with the past; to lose a part of yourself and go forward. This is when One becomes Two, but I'd rather not see it as the magic "two" - let's call it, the anti-magic one. Unstable and unpredictable, the two pieces float freely, craving to find a new direction.
Upgrading to Drupal 6 seems like a big step, even though I can't say that I'm using many modules, nor that I have a very complicated setup. Today, during a test upgrade, I've noticed the following problem: the image module, version 6.x-1.0-alpha2 failed to upgrade with the following SQL error: Unknown column 'f.nid' in 'field list' query.
Yesterday, on my way to work, a young man stops me and asks, "do you speak English?". Oh, somebody is in need of directions, I say to myself and reply with "Yes". The stranger, with a very innocent look in his eyes and a brief smile on his face, asks "Do I look drunk?".
It's very easy to let the past shadow the present. Sometimes, it comes as an illusion, under the mask of pleasant memories; the ones that bring a smile and seem to last forever. But when you wake up, you find yourself chained down and unable to move forward.
"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Did you ever need to copy a layer mask from one layer to another? In Photoshop this is a very easy process, which involves only the mouse and the Ctrl key, but in GIMP things aren't that straightforward (but not much complicated either).
The little things are the ones that matter most, at least this is what I was thinking about a few days ago.
Some doors should never be opened. They might be from a different time, a time that is not compatible with our own. And when we dare to explore their hidden passage, we might face ghosts that cannot be defeated.
