Texts and twitters

• 11:16 awake. Remind me why? #

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Microblogging by SMS, it's all the rage donchaknow. Using LoudTwitter and Twitter.

So then, are you internet addicted?

I suspect more than a few people reading this may find this either exasperating or illuminating.
Push To Classify Internet Addiction As a Mental Disorder:

Block says that those suffering internet addiction experience cravings, urges, withdrawal and tolerance, requiring more and better equipment and software, or more and more hours online. Further, internet addicts can lose all track of time or neglect “basic drives,”

I can't do that now, I'm backreading. Although I suspect I'm as bad at times.

RIP: Sir Arthur C Clarke is dead :-(

Undoubtedly my favourite author as a teen, and still someone I like to remember now (and who I'll doubtless bring up the reread list now), AP reports that Arthur C. Clarke passed away earlier today. He already had his own tag on here and deservedly so, not only did he predict satellite communications, mobile phones and similar, but he also proved that magic does exist and wrote some of the most iconic moments in SF film history ever. If you haven't watched 2001, do so, I suspect you'll get a chance very very soon. If I get to live to 90 and acheive half what he managed, I'll be fairly happy with my lot.

RIP Sir Arthur.

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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

Thus Spake Zarathustra