if connected

The colleague that suggested the idea showed me a photo of her, baby, and a desktop. I think that would work better than with a laptop.

But even with a laptop the decoy keyboard still helps for a time. Note – the second keyboard is upside down in the photo!

I’m a complete Internet addict. I have been one for over ten years. This is the first time I have acknowledged it.

What are the symptoms? I have the desire to check email — work and home — at all times of the day and night. I want to check unread items on my feed reader, Bloglines. I want to read the news on BBC, the Times, Guardian, FT, CNN, and the rest… even when there is no big breaking story. I was a media junkie. Now I’m an Internet addict.

Tonight I was out with friends. I had the leading edge mobile phone with me, the most capable handheld mobile Internet phone, but it simply failed to sate the need. I love the phone and what it can do but it didn’t make me feel sufficiently connected. I felt Internet cold turkey.

In fact, I had a second up to date smartphone in my bag too, but it wasn’t enough. Today’s mobile phones are massive improvements on those of a couple of years ago, but they can’t deliver the whole Internet, and feed an addiction in the way a PC can. This may be the reason that I’m writing this on a laptop at the end of the night. I tried earlier on an iPhone and hit WordPress application errors…