Has come round remarkably quickly. Time has that habit of passing, regardless of what people do. The trick is to fill it with valuable stuff. Speaking of which, I opened a Twitter account just over a week ago. Couldn’t ignore it any longer. I guess the idea of it is that it provides carefully selected [...]
Seem to have let the weight drift up just a little bit. Nothing drastic you understand. The significant loss over the last two years remains very much in place. It’s just edged into a bracket that doesn’t feel good symbolically. I’m very much a person who needs symbolic acts and events to provide structure. A [...]
Construction of self is a funny thing. It’s quite clear that many people don’t do it: they appear to proceed daily without any apparent need to assess how they interface with the world. I still find myself doing quite tortuous empathic calculations about how someone might feel in response to what I’m about to do [...]
It strikes me that no explanation is needed for using and embracing technology. The people who need to justify themselves are those who have decided not to use it. Technology exists to share thoughts with the world. It’s socially acceptable to do so. Why would you not do it?
On Sunday all my sites went belly up for a period of about sixteen hours. (Does anyone write numbers as words anymore?) Kind of felt like I’d made the wrong decision about which pill to take and woken up in a bath of goo with wires attached to my spine. No-one was really to blame. [...]