Netiquette
While blogging I often imagine a set of unspoken rules. One of these is the rule that if you don’t blog for a fortnight, or even a month, it would be rude to start blogging again as though you never stopped. If I leave a long gap, I often feel obliged to explain myself, or at least to offer some kind of introduction, which as a daily blogger I would never feel necessary.

I think in some way this is a transplantation of the etiquette of real life onto the world wide web. For example you see someone you haven’t caught up with for two weeks, or even a month, and the first thing you ask is “how are you?” If you raced into a “well I was at the supermarket the other day and…” kind of monologue you’re somehow infringing on them. You’re assuming familiarity where familiarity hasn’t been earned, or at least where your familiarity ‘credit’ hasn’t been ‘topped up.’

Or perhaps it’s just me…

I wish that the Internet Explorer Tab or even IE View Lite for Firefox worked on the Mac Operating System. It would make designing websites much easier.

Ouch (pt 2)
This morning I drove Zoe and my mum to the train station. They were on their way to Bath. I stopped at the traffic lights and there was one car in front of us. The lights were red. One moment later the lights were still red and the car began reversing towards us. She paused briefly and then continued reversing into our car. Calling it a ‘car crash’ would certainly be overstating it, but it wasn’t fun.

Ouch
The switchbacks is one of my favourite trails, but this morning wasn’t my morning. There’s this section where you change directions by 180 degrees on a turning which is fairly steep, wide and full of loose, jagged rocks. As you fall you see everything in slow motion, first thought, “bummer, I messed it up,” then, “this is going to hurt for the next two weeks.”

Well it’s the end of another week and a pretty ok one at that. I’ve seen friends, enjoyed designing and have just got back from a tax workshop that was for less painful than I imagined (partly due to it finishing after 2 hours instead of the 3 and a half that were billed). Why no blogging? Well right now things that I could blog about are either not blog material, or boring.

For example, who wants to know about my recent training regime, or what the weather is like? (It’s nice by the way…) Anyways I’m sure there are some thoughts brewing…just give me time.

Sorry, no epiphanies.