The downside of living inland

This entry was posted on January 13, 2008

I know lots of people are afraid of large bodies of water, and I never understand why that is. The worst that can happen is you get into trouble and drown. If you’re afraid of even looking at pictures of large bodies of water, you might want to click away now.

That’s the lake in my town, taken last summer. Isn’t it gorgeous? There’s so much wildlife there. There’s ducks, and geese, and a couple of llamas, and people walking their dogs. It’s a very nice environment to be in. When the weather nicens up, I think I’ll start walking round the lake more often. It’ll be good exercise during my lunch break.

That’s a photo I took in Portsmouth (south coast) last November. The land on the right is a place called “Gosport” and in the distance you can see the Isle of White. Isn’t that sea just gorgeous? I’m very jealous of people who live near the sea. It’s so relaxing and it has such a calming influence on me. I could just stand and stare at the sea for hours. It fascinates me.

If I could live anywhere, it would be near the coast. Right now I live slap bang in the middle of the country, which is not a lie if you look at this map. I can go in any direction at all and it’ll take about three hours to get to the nearest coastline. It’s ridiculous. I couldn’t be any further inland if I tried.

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I hate social networks!

This entry was posted on January 12, 2008

I have a myspace account. I’ve had one for just under a year, and I hate it. I log in and am bombarded with people’s bulletins telling me that they’re watching DVD’s and are just about to go to bed. Do I care? No! If I cared what you were up to, I’d ask you.

I hate myspace so much because of the bastardised CSS and HTML. People should not be allowed to customise their own layouts. It makes me uncomfortable when I see CSS in the body section of a webpage. It doesn’t belong there, and it’s only a fluke that it works.

Myspace, to me, has always been a waste of bandwidth. It’s full of emo teenagers and crappy bands judging their popularity by the number of friends they have, and using profile comments an bulletins as a way of keeping in touch. It’s pathetic.

I joined facebook last summer, because I wanted to try out a social networking site that wasn’t rubbish. It started off great. Everyone used their real names, and no one could customise the appearance of their profile with CSS. That hasn’t changed, and I still love facebook for that reason.

What I’m starting to hate about facebook now though, are all the third-party applications you can add to your profile. Some of these force you to invite 10+ to add the app as well before you can successfully add it. Now when I log into facebook, I’m presented with a list of 30 invitiations to tell me to add applications such as the “friends for sale” app and the “hot potato” app. It’s ridiculous.

In many ways, social networking is a brilliant idea, but in my ways it is ridiculous. With ning, you can make your own social networking site. I’m thinking of making one for anti-social unfriendly people. Who wants to sign up?

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A strange sense of achievement

This entry was posted on January 11, 2008

There are no messages in your Inbox.

Words cannot describe how proud I feel of myself right now. Last night I had over 500 emails sitting in my inbox. It was a mess. I couldn’t find anything, and I had no idea what was there. I deleted over half of the emails, and the rest have all been sorted into sub-folders (Q*Bee, stuff to keep, memberships, etc).

Clean out your inbox, everybody! Make a fresh start for the new year, and keep on top of things. At least, that’s what I’m hoping to do. Anyone got more than 500 emails to tackle?

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