Mentalechoes

9.15am, friday. I work from home on friday. I’ve had been working for 45 minutes, in a pair of tracksuit pants and a sleeveless shirt, with some lilting psytrance tunes on winamp playing to get me in the mood to do something productive. Then there’s a knock at the front door. Hmmm… who the fuck [...]

Today after I came home from swimming, instead of being able to sit down to my weekly back to back two hour episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit - my one shamelessly American drama series that I watch slavishly as often as I can - I realised I don’t have television. Oh, I [...]

A very good friend of mine from back home whose name I won’t mention (but it begins with L and she lives on the Gold Coast), sent an email out to all in her contacts list, that went something like this:

Hellloooooo everyone,

Just letting you know that I’ve deactivated my Facebook account.

It has simply [...]

Ironically, after writing my last post, I actually came across a couple of online news stories about World of Warcraft addicts; the type of person that spends 16 hours a day, every day, to the exclusion of all else, playing World of Warcraft. It’s this person that actually gives the rest of us internet jocks [...]

I’ve been reading more and more articles in places where I get my news about the scourge of internet addiction! Yes apparently some very prominent - read: very fucking loud no nothing idiot - people in the addiction treatment circles are becoming worried that the internet is destroying lives just as surely as crack, heroin [...]

I think perhaps after nine years living here in The Netherlands that I might actually have been passively integrated into Dutch life. I was watching the UEFA Cup football match between The Netherlands and Romania with genuine excitement and hopeful anticipation that my team would be the winner at the end. This from someone that [...]

Truly the benefits of having recently ripped my entire cd collection is beginning to show itself like the bare legs of women on the first warm days of spring. I decided that tonight I would do some work overhauling my weblogs (as once again I’ve decided that writing IS important to me, and I really [...]

I heard it again today at work, this word “Australianism”. The first time I heard it I thought the person was geographically challenged and didn’t know how to say “Australia” properly. But then on hearing it again, I realised that this person was actually trying to tell me something. What, I had no idea, so [...]

So this afternoon, after waking up at the very reasonable hour of 1.30pm, I decided that it was time to do something about backing up my babies. Those being my weblog posts across my numerous weblogs, and my websites, all of which I host at home, on a lovely little server that is something akin [...]