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Friday, October 07, 2005
I love blogs
If you're like me and spend a MASSIVE percentage of your life at a computer, you'll know that there are occasions when you crave an 'online break'.
Obviously there are the real world 'lunch break', 'toilet break' and various little 'random breaks' that we all take during the course of a normal day, but these are standard, part of your contract. These 'online breaks' though are unofficial, and they're the best: you look like you're still working, but in fact you're just planning what to watch on TV this evening, deciding which colour Ferrari to get, finding out about the world's biggest dog, checking your bank account to see if you can afford the latest Nokia with built in fishing rod, and checking up on your old school friends to see if any of them sound any happier than you.
The king of online break destinations has to be the blog: regularly changing stories from someone you've got quite close to over the years; new and interesting topics every day; links to other cool stuff on the Internet. Ah, I love blogs.
I've got a whole list of my favourites in my 'favourites' (the best place to keep them) and they're the first thing I check in the morning when I switch on my computer. Once I've read them all I then go to my work website, to check it's still ok. Yup, that's right: blogs take priority.
The only downer is when you visit a blog and it hasn't been updated. You're faced with yesterday's blog, or even worse, last week's blog. Whilst it's often disappointing and sometimes downright annoying, it usually just makes you feel sort of jealous: I'm here checking to see if they've done a new blog whilst they're out actually living. That's not fair.
Even though this flash of reality can be quite crippling, nothing beats the rush of excitement you get when you click on the address and see a huge new blog appear on your screen. "Ah," you think, "the luxury: there's at least 5 minutes of 'online break' there that I can enjoy whilst still looking productive".
I love blogs.
.....posted at 11:59 am permalink
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