Involuntary disconnection

posted by Breadmower on Fri 9th Feb, 07 at 22:11:20

Evening all. I'll level with you straight away, and tell you that this blog post is a pathetic attempt by me to feel like I'm not unplugged. See, the snow's been pretty bad here today, and it's caused problems with the Virgin Media network in my area. Translation: no phone, no TV, no net... and so I'm forced to spend some time in meatspace again.

People always think I'm a bit strange when I talk about it like it's a major thing, but what you've got to bear in mind is that my work (and a large portion of everything else I do) involves me having to sift through masses of data for hours on end... then something like this happens, and it's not there. I'm not quite so bad that I'll compare it to losing one of my senses, but you could think of it as a mild version of that. The constant stream of data that is normally flowing into my brain isn't there, and it feels... disconcerting.

In fact, I think that they recently gave this thing a name - something like Information Widthdrawl Symptom, so obviously it must be at least slightly common. Yeah, it must happen to other people... I'm not a sad weirdo... If I say it enough, then that'll make it true ;-)



Oh, and in case you're wondering how I posted this if I have no net access, it's because I'm so desperate to get a fix that I've hooked up my computer to my mobile's slow, expensive data connection so I can post to my blog. Sad, eh?