February 8th, 2010
I’m working late again tonight, trying to finish off some personal deadlines and working on some new projects. My severe lack of sleep over the past few weeks has made me feel like a zombie and I’m sitting here trying my best to concentrate.
A while ago I said that I would re-design a few web blogs for free. I’ve created a mock-up for one of the sites but I’ve been so busy with other things that I haven’t had a chance to start working on any of the others yet. So those of you who are still waiting for your re-design please be patient. I promise that I will get to it as soon as I can!! After all, I still need to do my experiment.
Before I dive back into work I’ll tell you guys a bit about my personal life since I haven’t really been posting many personal things lately. As some of you may know I recently moved back to Atlasville and due to my lack of transport I haven’t been able to socialise much during the week, so this weekend I stayed over at my boyfriend’s place in Sandton and visited some friends near-by. It was awesome seeing most of my friends again and I really hope that we can hang out again next weekend! It’s really difficult being back in the East-Rand but at least it forces me to work hard at my business because there is nothing else to do. I do have a choice of socialising with the locals or watching SABC but I’d rather not do either. My business is the most important thing in my life right now and I am giving it 100% of my time and energy.
I would really like to become more active on the blogosphere as well, and perhaps even start life-casting or making YouTube videos again, but that all depends on you guys. Do you want to see more of me? If yes, what would you like to see? More personal stuff or more tech/biz related stuff? Let me know???…
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February 8th, 2010
Michael Jackson’s doctor has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the pop star’s death.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles alleged Dr Conrad Murray “did unlawfully, and without malice, kill Michael Joseph Jackson”.
If convicted of the charge, the star’s physician faces up to four years in prison.
Murray’s attorney Ed Chernoff said the doctor will plead not guilty.
Jackson hired Murray to be his personal physician as he prepared for his comeback performances at London’s o2 arena.
Toxicology tests found massive amounts of anaesthetic in Jackson’s body and ruled that his death on the June 25 last year was homicide by drugs overdose.
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February 5th, 2010
TUAW10 reasons to pass on the iPad? TUAW fact check originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:00:00 EST.
Over at TechRepublic’s 10 Things blog, Debra Littlejohn Shinder has posted an article called “10 reasons why I’ll be passing on the iPad.” Some of her reasoning is sound, but quite a few of her points are easy to refute. It’s worth looking at her post and the points it tries to make, because it’s indicative of a widespread misunderstanding of not only the iPad’s capabilities, but also its intended consumer base.
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February 5th, 2010
[UK] 24-year-old Hermione Way has been unofficially engaged to her laptop who she calls Alex, for 11 months now.
Some people call her crazy and insane, but she wants to show the world how dedicated she is to her laptop with whom she has spent every minute of every day with for the past two years.
Current law does not allow computer to human marriages but Hermione is hoping to change all that.
They are having an unofficial exchanging of vows on Jan 31st 2010.
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February 3rd, 2010
A recent news bulletin on the Sky News channel claimed that psychologists have found evidence of a strong link between time spent surfing the web and depression. Apparently, the longer people spend on the Internet, the less likely they are to be happy.
An online survey was used to assess levels of Internet dependency and depression in 1,319 individuals between the ages of 16 and 51. In general, the longer people spent online the more depressed they tended to be, the scientists found in a study published in Psychopathology journal. A small group of the worst-affected individuals were both depressed and addicted, a study by the Institute of Psychological Sciences at the University of Leeds found.
But it is not clear whether using the internet causes mental health problems, or whether people with mental health problems are drawn to the internet.
More work is needed to answer this “chicken and egg” question, study leader Catriona Morrison said.
“There was a high correspondence between the amount of time spent on the internet and levels of depression,” said Dr Morrison.
“If you look at how dependent people feel they are on the internet that is likely to correspond with how happy or sad they feel.”
Her team identified a small group of 18 hardcore internet users who spent many hours online each day and were classed as “internet addicted”.
Their average depression score was more than five times higher than that of non-addicted users, and they were more likely to be moderately or severely depressed.
The addicts spent proportionately more time browsing porn sites, gaming sites and online communities.
They also tended to be young, having an average age of 21.
“While many of us use the internet to pay bills, shop and send emails, there is a small subset of the population who find it hard to control how much time they spend online, to the point where it interferes with their daily activities,” said Dr Morrison.
“This study reinforces the public speculation that over-engaging in websites that serve to replace normal social function might be linked to psychological disorders like depression and addiction.
“We now need to consider the wider societal implications of this relationship and establish clearly the effects of excessive internet use on mental health.”
Incidents such as the spate of suicides among teenagers in the Welsh town of Bridgend in 2008 have led to questions about the psychological dangers of social networking sites.
Some experts are worried about their potential for fuelling depressive thoughts in vulnerable teenagers.
