Well – I am not 56 and a half anymore!
Interesting thing about the internet of course is that out there in the ether I shall be 56 and a half for ever. Maybe I am on to something here…….digital eternal youth………..
I did have a weird internet moment recently. When looking idly at the website of the poet I am collaborating with I was shocked to see my name. By mentioning her on this blog I had inserted my name on her website.
A reminder of just how careful one must be; and not the first one.
I once came across a comment I had made about Dartford reproduced on a website that I was researching. At the time I was asking for funding from Dartford Council!
Nothing amiss had been quoted – but it was a timely wakeup call. As far as I am aware, however intensely embarrassing, there is no way of removing anything from the net?
Strange thing the internet.
Internet etiquette for example……..the imperceptible slide from ‘Dear’ to ‘Hi’……….and the sudden realisation that you are now just plain wrong.
E-mails getting shorter by the day as half of each word gets swallowed up by text speak……….everything in life nowadays needing to be shorter, quicker, more impatient. How come the older we get the faster time goes? What is that about? When young we seem to wait an unbearable time to get to be 16 from 15………
Sometimes you can get an unintended internet laugh. Following a missive from an Arts Officer advertising workshops I promptly got another from an artist on the list – asking if anyone could give her cleaner’s friend a job. Sent to [you guessed it] everyone on the Arts Officer’s mailing list!
I did subsequently toy with the idea of a project based on subverting other peoples mailing lists………..
