Mentalechoes

I can’t work out if the fast moving weather outside is being influenced by my mood, or if my mood is being influenced by the fast moving weather. Every 20 minutes a cycle repeats itself starting with overcast rain that gives way to sunlight that returns to overcast rain. This reflects my own mood perfectly, [...]

Today I found myself in Ikea again. My friend kindly offered to drive me there when I complained for the umpteenth time about not having a desk lamp that worked; not having a sharp bread knife; not having a sharp vegetable knife; and not having any more Ikea soap (the stuff that smells nice and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been obsessed the last few nights with trying to get my entire CD collection digitised. I don’t have that many discs, maybe somewhere around 160 I would say, perhaps 10 or 20 more. But they’ve been sitting in a dark closet for the last three years, waiting for a home on a bookshelf that [...]

I arrived back from New York this morning at some ungodly hour that I haven't seen myself voluntarily for years. In some ways it was a dissapointment to be back so early, and in other ways I was glad to be home. New York was unlike anything I had really expected. I went there thinking [...]

So I'm starting to learn the value in doing little things when you can, rather than trying to find time for a really big thing that you just can't find time for. See I've always been this sort of person who wants to be able to sit down and have an endless amount of time [...]

So here I was sitting in front of the TV looking for inspiration for tonights little masterpeice; hoping that some topic would fall from on high and get me started. My new employer graciously gave me a mac laptop with a wireless network connection, unshackling me from the confines of my little office, and giving [...]

Lifes on the up and up; I've quit smoking, made it passed my probation period at the new job and been given a permanent contract, and turned over a new leaf when it comes to doing gear as part of the usual weekend blowout. I'm feeling pretty good, even though I'm not really looking it. [...]