Thursday, November 25, 2004

we live in a computer age, a world increasingly shaped by programmers. everything around us is becoming computerized. your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. your phone has turned into a computer, so has your camera. soon your TV and VCR will be components in a computer network, or yet they are already. and letters, encyclopedias, newspapers and even your local store are being replaced by the internet. isn't it amazing? this blogging is also part of a computerized diaries. and so what's next?

i've been online late yesterday surfing around things, that yes, i love animations, i love blacks, i love music video, i love online chatting, i love HTML's [although sometimes i HATE it], i love java scripts, i love the people who created this blogging and it's like, this is something to experience. now, i'm into writing, i'm into everything. but lately i realized, giving out informations is something probably not required in wee-blog, inevitably referred to as blogging. weblog is now so widespread explosion enables individuals to publish their own weblogs quickly and easily. and there are quite a variety of writings from the mind-blogging, the most stupid, or the most compelling weblogs. besides, its free. blogging is pretty much part of my life now. there are times that i just don't care what i write or at least maybe, i enjoy what i write. and hey, writing is a lot of fun, proven here that i'm already learning to write. sometimes part of my brain knew there was something inside me that i just couldn't percolate all the way up into conscious knowledge. it also made me think that the only way to communicate with people is to go online even if i have no freaking idea who they are and what they do or whatever the reason, it's probably because we share information we write about ourselves. and i strongly believe how powerful weblog is. it transforms the 'writers' or readers from "audience" to "public". you can now find numerous and thousand of weblogs. i usually ask myself as to why would i want to do this? why do i deliberately write things? for the same reason, i think, it's just a plain curiosity and to know what others are into. i'm doing this because it's good for the brain. to do good work, you need a brain that can go anywhere. you especially need a brain that's in a habit of going where it's not supposed to. that i think i needed that. great work tends to grow out of ideas and no idea is so overlooked as one that's unthinkable. whatever the reason maybe there seems a clear correlation between intelligence and willingness to consider writing and showing your ideas. this isn't just because smart people are really really good at writing but i think it's just how you really want to do, its like a hobby, but not in some competitive fields that you can just win big. perhaps this is just some sort of training myself to think unthinkable thoughts that i usually get advantage beyond the thoughts itself. it's like stretching. so  when i find something i can't say, what do i do with it? i don't say it or at least, i pick my own battles.

news onlne is such a wonderful squeeze between reading other blogs and i got insipired with the winning entry of patricia evangelista, 19 yrs old, who won the international public speaking competition conducted by the english speaking union in london few months ago, entitled "a borderless world". with her five minute talk of the theme, she beat 59 other student contestants from 37 countries.

but anyhow, i discovered that my internet world affects also my lifestyle. here's the result of a quiz about how i get addicted to the internet. this 'quiz me' was made only for fun but the results seemed to be true.

Are you Addicted to the Internet? 44% Average@Internet-User.com (41% - 60%) You seem to have a healthy balance in your life when it comes to the internet and life away from the computer. You know enough to do what you want online without looking like an idiot (most of the time). You even have your own Yahoo club or online journal! But you enjoy seeing your friends and going out to enjoy life away from your computer.