Barbara had been diagnosed as depressive and was under treatment for the condition for several years before she discovered that she was bipolar. She signed up on a networking website and rigorously monitored her moods through charts on her profile page. It was here that she noticed how frequently her mood fluctuations went from being… Continue reading In sickness and in health
Category: Technology
Trying to keep track and make sense of new technology…
Trying to remember…
– how many letters did we write in a day, a month, a year before we found email? – what was lingua franca for youngsters before SMSese? – how did people manage to make franship before social networking became all the rage? – when did we ever say ‘I wish I had 24-hour news channels’?… Continue reading Trying to remember…
The age of unfriending
The un- words always sounded a little – what shall I say – desperate, to me. What is it about Un- (+verb) when dis- or de- will do just as well, or better? Like unlearn – what is unlearn? Or UnWork, or UnConference? And don’t even mention UnLike, the way facebook wants us to use… Continue reading The age of unfriending
Write me a letter
The Telegraph has an interesting list of 50 things that are being killed by the internet. I agree completely – for instance, this on top of the list – The art of polite disagreement – The most raucous sections of the blogworld seem incapable of accepting sincerely held differences of opinion; all opponents must have… Continue reading Write me a letter
Happy birthday, Tetris!
25 years of providing hours of entertainment and relief from officialdom and boredom – thanks, tetris. The mark of a productive day at work? Closing your eyes at the end of the day to see block after colorful block of tetris fall in front of you, against a black sleepy background. Long ago, a friend… Continue reading Happy birthday, Tetris!
It’s all about loving your status…
… as Karan Johar would say. Turns out there is more to the whole status thingy on facebook than meets the eye. Even a year ago, people were wondering why anyone would be interested in reading blow by blow updates on one’s life in twitter. And now facebook has done a twitter. And what is… Continue reading It’s all about loving your status…
What does facebook do for you?
Yes, another facebook post. And you thought everything that had to said about facebook was said and done, right? So I ignored the bit about the Italian mafia fan group on facebook – okay, so I did not ignore it completely, I linked to it and moved on. I even refrained from saying anything about… Continue reading What does facebook do for you?
Fibromyalgia support group
My status message across places on the internet reads – cross between a zombie and a junkie. and that is how I have been feeling these last couple of weeks, especially the last few days. Just up after two days of forced bed rest – which happened only because the husband worked from home to… Continue reading Fibromyalgia support group
Read at work
How often have you heard that people spend far too much time in front of their computers and just do not read these days? Adverblog links to this great site created by Colenso BBDO Auckland for the New Zealand Book Council to make reading books more… well, more like reading computer screens. The home page… Continue reading Read at work
Writing for Rediff
Time was when, finding myself otherwise jobless (which is all the time) I used to head to rediff.com for my daily dose of entertainment. Insipid stories, terribly written out – but the comments following the articles making every moment spent on the site worth it. It just seems to be getting worse… The problem is… Continue reading Writing for Rediff