Tuesday, September 25, 2007
blog in search of a theme
I was staring at the vortex of the toilet, trying to
get my head in the mood for another day. I am so stressed
that I have been unable to think of anything to blog about.
The toilet bowl mouthed back "you have got Bloggers block",
but your pooh is still runny, frequent and smelly.
Ten minutes later I had an idea for a posting. I can still
do this, I thought. I am not just a broken shell with all
the creative juices lost in a pub toilet somewhere.
Then I went to work. I got back home an hour ago.
I looked at the keyboard, and I had this vague feeling
that I had something to type.
I remember reading about some young genius, who wrote
poetry, but he didn't have enough life experience
to write about the world, so was reduced to writing poems
called "poem in search of a theme".
Anyway I have remembered what I was going to talk about.
In the online guardian there was an article about
broadband from the grave. Essentially you get a web site
when you are dead, so you can record content and email, and send
it tour family and friends when you are dead.
It reminded me about a conversation I had with someone over
10 years ago. We were asking what happens to a persons
web site when they are dead? There should be a graveyard
of web sites. Effectively this already happens with myspace,
because many of the people on my friends list are actually
dead. They still manage to post video and pictures, and that
makes me very proud.
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