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01-03-2009
Itâs strange where the mind takes you in those moments when itâs not chained down by the mundane business of earning a living. And thus I am surprised to find myself being drawn to Ayn Randâs famous architect: Howard Rourk in The Fountainhead. Itâs unlikely to have anything to do with Randâs presentation of a man who refuses to accept any compromise to his view of the world (check this: Ed.) and much more to do with that scene in the film where Gary Cooper stares at the telephone, waiting for it to ring. That, and the odd fact that Iâm wandering round the house humming âHallelujah, Iâm a Bumâ.
But as we know, the marketing department finds work for idle hands, so its off to visit my website designer. I tend towards the âif it ainât broke ... â line of thinking so perhaps I havenât paid as much attention to the doings of the e-community as I should have done. And while Iâve been busy suggesting alternative viewpoints to electricians and kwantity surveyors, stuff has been going on.
It has been gently explained to me that I have been lax on the e-front of things and that I need to shape-up and get myself Connected. Regular Blogs are needed, and Profiling and Links and all sorts of other business that I didnât bother writing down, but without which I am doomed to endure a solitary existence â a disembodied spirit howling through the streets. And I am also sure that, were I to address all the needs of my website, I would have to employ a lighting designer, so I could spend all of my time uploading and working those Connections.
And itâs not just my own website. Even here, within this august organ, my print self is reduced to a page designed mainly to satisfy DDA compliance, with the rest of my finely-tuned arguments being sacrificed to the blogosphere â a place, I am told, where readers make regular visits, even âbookmark the page in their Favourites folderâ â whatever that means. Maybe itâs just the grumpiness coming out in me, but I like paper. I can read a newspaper or a magazine in all kinds of strange places, and itâs nobodyâs business but mine. Iâm not likely to haul my coal-fired CRT monitor down the stairs and into the sitting room so that I can lie on the sofa to find out everyoneâs latest doings.
Maybe itâs because I see computers as a source of important information â a very neat, tidy and fast method of communication â but I read magazines and newspapers for fun and learning. My computer is not fun. There â Iâve said it and even before I finish the sentence, Iâll be
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