KahlilaGibran's blog, page 31

Online nowKahlilaGibran: Kahlila is a woman in a relationship from Kia Ora, New Zealand.; Likes 3,774 pages, 183 videos, 563 photos • 554 fans • Received 186 reviews; Member since Jan 20, 2007

Favorites » Her Blog

Addiction to internet is an illness | Technology | The Observer: Mar 24, 10:50am 5 reviews computers, internet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/23/news.internet; GRRRRRR I've been off air for a few hours tonight.

The connection went down while I was writing,
and in conversation with a friend.

I fulminated for a while, paced, had a cold shower . . . and
adapted, but worried: what if it NEVER comes back, anywhere.

Went to bed in a huff.

Then thought I'd get up and have another go.

Noticed I hadn't plugged the cables back in after the previous
attempt at disconnecting and reconnecting.

Happy ending.

Addicted?

I'd prefer to say keen. And certainly dependent.

Net users are no more addicted to their technology than generations
before them became to electricity or cars, and frankly I worry
more about people who are too apathetic to take up this
whole new connection with the world.

Yea all right, I'm addicted.

Mar 24, 7:47am: A couple of things occurred to me too, looking at this on Luce's pages . . .

-- I went through a very brief phase (like a week at the age of 10) in which I wanted to be a nun -- but concluded it wasn't on because I couldn't believe in Jesus, let alone fall in love with him (nuns "marry" Jesus)

-- I can't understand how people can live through a lifetime of marriage without realising it is all a game. At least it would be if I was "playing" it.

-- Don't get me started on the Church. I used to faint in services,not because it was an overwhelmingly emotional experience but because it was bewildering and baffling

-- And at Sunday school I thought "Nice story" but THAT IS ALL

Mar 24, 6:02am: Is this the real price?
Is this just fantasy?
Financial landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
And look at your buys and see.
I'm now a poor boy
High-yielding casualty
Because I bought it high, watched it blow, Rating high, value low,
Any way the Fed goes
Doesn't really matter to me,

Mama - just killed my fund
Quoted CDO's instead
Pulled the trigger, now it's dead
Mama - I had just begun
These CDO's have blown it all away

New words for Bohemian Rhapsody found here

Tiny House Blog: Mar 23, 11:27am 6 reviews architecture, cottages, houses
http://tinyhouseblog.com/; Tiny houses

How sensible, since we're living now in a world of
tiny gadgets (my new computer, eg, is about the
size of a book and weighs 2lb).

Some of the houses here are bigger than my own
current digs, but considering the readership is
mostly American it is a step in the right direction.

TALES OF IRAQ WAR by Latuff (ALWAYS UPDATED!!!): Mar 23, 10:43am 2 reviews cartoons, politics, middle-east, iraq
http://tales-of-iraq-war.blogspot.com/

StumbleUpon - toddkellers web site reviews and blog: Mar 21, 11:21pm 8 reviews stumblers, seventies, toddkeller
http://toddkeller.stumbleupon.com/; This can be my hearse, when the time comes. Tks, Todd.

And as the cortege makes its mournful way to my last
resting place (possibly the local rubbish dump) let's have music from
the following blazing from the bus:

Cream
Jethro Tull
Leonard Cohen
Steeleye Span

Thank you