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“1984″, a novel written in 1948 about life in 1984 where Big Brother, via a network of cameras, watches everyone’s every move.

Ever since we’ve supposedly supposedly found the concept abhorrent.

Yet roll on 2008 and we don’t need Big Brother, because we’ve got ourselves. We’re willing tell the world constantly about our whereabouts and what we’re doing.

Twitter, which constantly prompts you with the rather Big Brother-esque question, “What are you doing now?”, is the pinnacle of this mad rush to make sure the world knows our every move.

But there’s blogs, and MySpace, and Facebook, and Flickr and so on. Have we become addicted to socialization and sacrificed almost all our privacy? And there’s bluetooth phones that announce your arrival. We indiscriminately splash the net with incriminating words and pictures with little concern for the future they might bring us. People who loose sleep to stay in touch, others who sleep with their Blackberries to never miss anything. GPS co-ordinates attached to our photos.

“I’m me, I’m me, I’m me,” we keep shouting. “Look at me! Listen to me!” we implore. But we are ultimately drowned out by the roar of millions of others.

And then there’s folks like me, those with Aspergers, who don’t share this uncontrollable lust for uber-socialization, who don’t get Facebook or Twitter. And we stand back and ask “What the hell is going on? Where will it end?” (Sure I’ve got an iPhone, but as I say, I don’t use it fulfill a socialization lust.)

Is the whole world going mad with socialization-lust?

I just want to go and sit on a hill somewhere, far from the maddening din of Twitter and its peers.

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Who’d have thought, eh? Me, a computer nerd of so many years with barely an artistic bone in my body, would complete a diploma in an artistic field. I still don’t know the difference between an Expressionist and an Impressionist, nor which came first, but fortunately an understanding of art history isn’t key to […]

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Can anyone declare a work to be art? Short answer of course is yes. However most people agree there’s a line between what can be rightfully called art and what really is crap. But who gets to decide where that line is. Personally, I draw that line such that a lot more of what is […]

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What a lovely day. Wet and cold (about 10C). Perfect for grabbing a hot cup of soup, and finding a warm and cozy place to work. 
Seriously, I love it!

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Well, I’ve just started my second year of graphic design and we have to do a web design component this year.
Had a lot of fun with the first assignment, taking it way past where the teacher intended. He actually said I already knew more than he was going to teach the others for the year. […]

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You can do heaps more with a computer than without…. Nowadays most people, even managers and executives, type their own letters - at least in first draft.And therein is the problem computers have created.

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Last night I dreamed up a little thought. Hopefully tonight I’ll dream up a whole book!

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I had this thought while doing some free writing in class today:Memories are like a jigsaw puzzle with no edges;

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I read with great interest about a study in the USA that found that road accident deaths on highways went down over the last 10 years after the increasing of speed limits.Read about it on the Wall Street Journal: Safe at Any Speed Here in Victoria, Australia there has been a very questionable campaign featuring the slogan “Wipe of 5 and save lives”.

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Some nong somewhere reckons it takes 21 days to form a habit. That is, if you do something for 21 days straight, it will become a habit.

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