Author Archives: john

Don’t drink the river

An increasing number of people are complaining about it. A Google search of the term returns some four million results. “Information overload” is not up there with Britney Spears, but it’s sizeable enough to warrant (merit?) these thoughts. I just can’t help smiling each and every time I hear or read the term “information overload” […]

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In praise of chaos

I’m not an especially organised soul. That’s not a confession. Confession implies guilt, and I don’t feel the least bit guilty about it. For years now (perhaps millennia?) we’ve been urged — oftentimes with near religious fervour — to get organised, to be more organised. Proponents and proselytisers of the be more organised movement would […]

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FarceBook

I’m finally leaving FaceBook. My account is queued for deletion on March 3. Why they can’t just delete it immediately, I have no idea. A recent change to FaceBook’s TOS (Terms of Service) was the final straw. I’m not going to rehash it all here. It has been documented in numerous other places. I think […]

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A post in search of a title

Here you will find neither lucid prose nor ingenious rhetoric. It’s simply a place where I can put some of my thoughts on paper(ish). This blog of sorts is probably not worth subscribing to, as I will no doubt post infrequently. Anyway, I now have a little corner of my own in which to express […]

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