Hello

First I'd like to say that... it's cold. Really cold. A coworker and I went out for a meeting today and my jaw dropped to see the bank's big 'ole time and temperature display sadistically fronting a lethal 24 degrees, almost mocking me with it's bright and cheerful yellow-lit display. Now, you upstate New Yorkers who may or may not be reading may harumph all you want. Yes I know it gets so cold up there that the flames on your bonfires have icicles... and I know 24 degrees isn't that cold... but in addition to the icy air temp, the freakish-bonzai-ginsu wind was whipping our notably heavy SUV like Indiana Jones and that ambiguous-ethnicity-bald-guy with the painted face from that one movie where he steals stuff from underground and gets beaten up.

but I digress

Any school child knows that 34 degrees farenheight plus winds in excess of 20mph equals negative A MILLION! (Negative a million is coincidentally the temperature at which most fungus comes alive and sings Welsh folk music... but you probably already knew that)

So here I am. Melissa reminded me I haven't written one of these blog entries in a while. Once she reads this, she'll probably regret it. I actually heard from my office mate that it's now been qualified by notable "scienticians" that too much time on the internet "can be harmful"



I'll wait for the shock to die down.








So it's a good thing I don't spend all my time blogging. All I ever hear nowadays is "zangoo this", and "myface that"... spacebooks and what-not. I'm already too old to keep up.

Anyway, here's a short excerpt from an article at thescotsman.com

INTERNET addiction is a real phenomenon which could be as destructive as alcoholism and drug addiction, doctors in the United States have said.

Up to 10 per cent of internet users in the US have a dependency, experts on addiction have claimed.

The Proctor Hospital in Illinois is admitting patients to recover from obsessive computer use and doctors said they see similar signs of withdrawal to those found in alcoholics or drug addicts - including profuse sweating, severe anxiety and paranoia.

In Pennsylvania there are even "cyberwidow support groups" for partners of those having online affairs, treatment for addiction to auction site eBay and behavioural counselling to help clients wean themselves off the web. Internet addicts spend hours a day online, often lying about the extent of their use.