Following on...

Blimey I've been trying to avoid you lot!

My surfing today has not really given me anything much in the way of inspiration; my Stumbles were such that it reminded me of Digg, insomuch as there were repeated items, promoted items and ever-present favourite items.

Additionally, I have spent far too long on Mafia Wars, to the extent of going there instead of here, under the premise of 'checking progress'.

I did try to do some niche researching, as I do still harbour intentions of trying something along that line. I checked the mail account created for such things, read some of the mini-course emails and visited a blog. Consequently, I then roamed wildly collecting more free memberships and ebooks. I then spent another hour tidying the downloads, unzipping them and creating folders for the content.

I started nagging myself that I should be doing this and not that, particularly as I was starting to feel tired. The odd thing is that I had already decided what the topic was. I may have been concerned that it was a little flimsy on the content front, but a short piece is just that.

I've been carrying this sentiment around with me (when Stumbling was much better) for about a week now...

"Getting on the internet is the most important thing that you will ever do. I cannot overstate this point. Get on the internet - now. Your livelihood, your happiness and your future is at stake. Staying away from the internet is the social equivalent of committing suicide."

It's from this website. It's very good and everything.

It made me think. The Internet is really good. Probably the greatest (not including lovers and babies and stuff) most wonderful single thing in my life.

At the same time I Stumbled that I Stumbled this too. For something listed as six years old it is eerily prescient of the disastrous situation we currently face with US (and probably other) telcos wrestling to gain financial control of the web. Them and the American government wanting to take over the licensing control. That's depressing.

Following on from my twin discoveries yesterday, I got to thinking. There it is, the greatest thing for the individual, irrespective of it's daft uses, the sheer power of the medium remains and if the power goes, for the occupants of post 2030 world, the internet will just be a legend.

Times online seems to take away any useful article. Despite Google referencing the articles, The Times 404s them. I tricked it, by going through an internal link to get to the content, but it 404d again today. No point in posting it. In fact, the web was unusually quiet on how much electricity was required to run the World Wide Web. There was stuff on the green footprint of a Google search and an interesting piece on why we'd be mugs to individually put anything in the cloud. But I didn't have much luck in finding a figure.

A figure that I could use to say '...it takes x much electricity to run the tubes.' Using a 'peak energy' type equation, roughly estimating when, rather than zealous censorious Pakistanis or idiotic cable-cutters, insufficient power will start making portions of the webbed world inaccessible.

That makes me really sad.

We better all get on this before it's too late.

I'm going to turn everything off and go to bed. I might just check on Mafia Wars first though.

Welcome to the disappointment.