Alexander Biriukov

Nowadays interactive websites and human communication have become very important as compared with what web-programming used to be several years ago. The sphere of full-scale web software is now developing at a very fast pace. This is called “cloud computing”. Such browser-based applications can edit sound files and turn them into ringtones for your cell phone or they can even be fully featured analogues of your Word, Excel, graphics editor, database or tool which are used for project planning. To access all of these services you just need a computer with an Internet browser installed. That’s the future.

The subject of a site doesn’t play any essential role if we speak about how enthusiastic I am working on it. Its component parts are far more interesting. It is challenging for me to put into life all the opportunities and ideas. If I developed some kind of cartographic software, I wouldn’t have to go crazy about it, nor about any other stuff of the like.

Music hadn’t belonged in my sphere of interests before I turned 14. And when everybody would listen to Scooter, I listened to almost nothing. Then I tried playing a guitar. From this point on, everything changed: music became an essential part of my life. Today, if I have some breaks in this activity, my life really begins to lose its colors. Think, for instance, about live performances — there’s nothing to be compared to them, you couldn’t just replace them with any other thing.

Onstage performance is a colossal outburst of energy. You are kind of exhausted, because you have to move a lot, to give every bit of yourself. When you come out onto the stage and meet your fans like your closest friends, abandon yourself to them, you get the real pleasure.

Groupies? Well… that happens. (laughs) But when you’re on a tour, you have to move from one city to another just in couple of hours after the concert is over, so you don’t have enough time for those things.

The main component of the fun you get while playing online is communication with other people. This can be chatting (about some abstract things or an in-game moment), or it can be blowing up someone’s ass. I mean, it is very easy to make competitions there, all of which are instinct-based. The creators of these games deliberately work on keeping the player in the game. That’s how they make their money.

Role-play games catch up users even harder. At first you come there and get astonished with all those teasers and lures. For example, EVE Online has 5.000 star systems and 30.000 players online at the same time. It takes your breath and sucks you in. Then you get acquainted and interested with how things work there. Combat system, local market… You try different roles: warrior, merchant or someone else you are not in your real life. Hell, yeah! You can even be a miner there! And besides, in games like that people get in contact with each other, which implies liabilities. You can’t just leave your fellows in the lurch, because they rely on you.

You should never spend your money on what you absolutely do not need in your life. Money shouldn’t be spent on things you do not use. Personally, I’m sure I don’t need a magic plasma orb.