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I haven’t posted much as of late, but I can inform you that I’m working on a new theme for this blog. I need to fix one Opera CSS issue, make a theme out of the HTML and this blog will look a lot less Kubrick than it does now.

That’s something you may look forward to, but the actual reason for this post is something totally different. Whenever I get behind my computer screen I usually wish to do things, one of which may be chatting with friends about matters, as this is cheaper than doing this by phone. I like talking with people, be it face to face or online. But I am developing an increasing dislike of the latter as of late, mostly because of annoying habits of some people. Suddenly disappearing may be one thing, but what aggrevates me most is the lethargic slowness quite some people display during IM sessions. It is not uncommon for me to wait 5 minutes or longer for a response on something I said, perhaps two sentences each time. So in one hour I perhaps get 24 sentences out of a person… getting bored to death behind my computer about 85% of the time. While some people seem happy living that way I certainly do not and I most certainly do not want to be forced into doing this either. Sure, mail and feeds need some attention too, perhaps a downloaded movie once in a while, but usually I’m done very quickly if not for some slowpokes I’d feel sorry for if I just went offline instead of patiently waiting for them.

Luckily quite some friends of mine do get to business when talking online, but even then only one problem remains… one’d need to be locked into a room with one’s computer 24/7 to ensure not to miss one’s friends. The best bet I can think of is cheap internet access through cell phones. Go anywhere you want and cheaply get in touch with your friends anywhere you like. It’d be heaven… though it’d be probably best to ritually burn all cell phones and IM software and go talk to people for real instead. The ease of use of these horrendous… things just makes people lazy :P .