With a capital “A”. Seriously, since Web 2.0 started to really roll out and more and more sites started to adopt its philosophy I’ve noticed a complete paradigm shift in what the Internet means to me. I literally love the internet now whereas maybe 2 years ago I was becoming increasingly disillusioned as to its real world merits. It was becoming like TV, I was merely flicking through my favorite sites on a daily basis, reading my usual RSS feeds and then switching it off.

However things started to change a while back when a friend pointed me in the direction of this new toolbar called “Stumbleupon”. My whole life I have hated additional toolbars in browsers, all to often I’ve had to clean out a friends PC only to see the myriad of toolbars they have installed that are there due to a virus or are slowing down their computer because they are bloated and poorly coded. So when I was told about this “must have” toolbar, I took the advice with a pinch of salt.

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Do you eat meat? Do you wear Leather or Fur? Do you use products that have been tested on animals? Have you ever been to a Zoo or Park that has trained animals to perform? Do you have a Pet? If so you must watch the documentary Earthlings (linked below) I came across it by accident whilst stumbling and was surprised that I had not heard of it previously. It’s fairly old at this stage, being released in 2003, but it is still as shocking and eye opening today as it ever will be.

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I’m writing this in w.bloggar, posting this to my Wordpress blog and viewing it in Firefox. I edit my pictures in Paint.NET, write my documents in Open Office and upload files to my site with Filezilla. How much did I pay for this? Nothing! (well technically not nothing, electricity and bandwidth was involved which I pay for). I’m shamed to admit it but I only started using Firefox full time a week ago. In work I always had firefox installed but had become accustomed to using IE over the years, IE just “worked” so I thought “why change?”

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Dang! My first post. I’ve sat on this for a few days thinking that the first post will define my website, the same way an impression of a person will be made the first time you meet them. But screw it, I need to just start writing. I remember having these same feelings when I was a kid and I’d get a fresh blank sketch book, I’d hover my pencil over the page wanting to draw something worthy of the life that tree gave to let me draw. Whatever I drew would always take from the clean whiteness of that paper, even if I could draw the Mona Lisa it still wouldn’t be better than a blank page. Why? Because a blank page is everything, it’s endless possibilities, it’s the Magna Carta, it’s Art. Once you put it to use it becomes something else, something limited, something lesser in every way.

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