For me, it was love at first sight: twenty years on, I’m still besotted with my sexy Mac. That’s Mac as in not-a-PC, equally addictive machines according to users. When not developing curvature of the spine, hunched over lap-or-desktop catching up on Corrie, comparing the market.com, off my face on Facebook or marveling at YouTube clips demonstrating Peaches Geldof’s command of English - y’know? the one at http://tinyurl.com/y9a7xc5 - I’m tweeting utter twollox. Enough! This obsessive relationship is unhealthy, as my stranger-to-the-gym bod demonstrates. Could salvation lie in the software equivalent of Antabuse, a drug designed to deflect alkies from the cooking sherry? Anti-Social, networking block software available to download, promises to deny (s)Mac addicts their daily fix. For PC junkies, there’s Freedom. Either way, isn’t it time to get a life that’s not 99% virtual?Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Anti-Social, moi?
For me, it was love at first sight: twenty years on, I’m still besotted with my sexy Mac. That’s Mac as in not-a-PC, equally addictive machines according to users. When not developing curvature of the spine, hunched over lap-or-desktop catching up on Corrie, comparing the market.com, off my face on Facebook or marveling at YouTube clips demonstrating Peaches Geldof’s command of English - y’know? the one at http://tinyurl.com/y9a7xc5 - I’m tweeting utter twollox. Enough! This obsessive relationship is unhealthy, as my stranger-to-the-gym bod demonstrates. Could salvation lie in the software equivalent of Antabuse, a drug designed to deflect alkies from the cooking sherry? Anti-Social, networking block software available to download, promises to deny (s)Mac addicts their daily fix. For PC junkies, there’s Freedom. Either way, isn’t it time to get a life that’s not 99% virtual?
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