Technology is a double-sided coin in my life. I experience it as both a liberating and constraining TIME factor. I have a busy life and of course it facilitates communication with my friends and family especially since the advent of email - being able to send off and email and knowing it will be waiting there for them at their convenience regardless of time zones or wherever in the world they maybe.
However the down side is upon entering cyberspace you seem to go into a timewarp and the amount of time lost spent navigating around the unfamiliar tools, signing up and sitting on the computer is to my mind time that could be better spent out in the garden or with real life friends. I am left with the feeling that there must be a big hole in some people's lives that they have the amount of time required to be a fully functioning member participating in cyberspace. Something a bit sad about this - a life spent in front of a computer ... is that really much of a life? Maybe to them it is but to me its tinged with an unhealthy reality.
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However, young man who is soon to be 40, the point is to come to grips with the technology and LEARN stuff. I am pleased we can do this in paid work time, although I write this at home. And if all that sounds insufferably smug, that's because I am. So there.
PS: good pics.
the pics of the cats were really cute- did you say you were going to post some garden pics too?
I find the technology a bit of a quagmire- but that's also perhaps cause of this feeling of needing to push on through the program. Certainly there are more things I'd like explore at leisure- I'm pretty hooked on youtube and there's a few podcasts I subscribe to. But I'd rather be out and about. If your first life is good your don't need a 'second life'
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