I had a more interesting starter post, but then got rid of it because I didn't like it much. So this will have to do

Litracy decline

Let's go back a few hundred years. Back then Reading was a sign of sophistication, intelligence and often wealth. As more people learned to read and books became cheaper, it lost it's sophistication status.

Today, Reading is something that is put on us at an early age and we take it for granted. I have no problem with that. I consider to spread of lieracy to be a gift, a gift we take lightly, but a gift nonetheless.

What does bother me is something someone said to me not too long ago. During a discussion of various stories (quite likely the harry potter franchise) they said "well, I don't read books. I just see the movie".

I can understand that not everyone likes to read certain kinds of books, but to me a dislike of all books is strange. Can someone say they don't like music? Movies? YouTube? No, because all are so varied that there is something for everyone. Literature is the same. There is a type of book and style for everyone, even if it's katie price's biography.

So are we just becoming lazy. Do we see text and think of it as a waste of time? We've taken something for granted and are now beginning a trip backwards.

The Internet

I'd like to say I'm not addicted to the internet, but I'd also like to say I'm an honest person. Unfortunately, the latter will take precedence in this case. I am totally addicted to the internet! Seriously, I don't know how I'm going to juggle school and this for the next two years.

I tend to spend a lot of time on Youtube. I don't make videos (yet) nor have I, to the best of my knowledge, ever been featured in one. Despite this, I love watching the "pro-youtubers" work. I actually watch youtube rather than tv.

Now Facebook. I have a facebook and I find myself checking it whenever I can. It's like an impulse thing. While I was away last week I found myself, whenever I got internet, checking facebook first. Having it on my iPod is an even bigger curse. I imagine it's the same as with other social networks.

In conclusion, I am addicted to the internet and damn proud of it I must say. I have a blog that no one reads for god sake. If that's not obsession I don't know what is!

Walking

So I've been away for a few days. No, nothing exciting really, just wandering around Wicklow climbing hills and stuff. Yes, my legs are killing me now :(

Also, I meant to bring a camera, and I did. So why don't I have pictures to show? Well, first of all I like photography. I like landscapes. I took no pictures and the reason for that is I forgot my charger. Well, i didn't entirely forget it. I remembered the wire, power box thing and the plug. Unfortunately, my camera requires a base to charge on, and I forgot that, cos it was at home plugged into my pc (I dislike macs btw, but thats another post, another time)

Circles

Have you ever felt that you belonged to something? I'm pretty sure
everyone has. Anyway, so when you feel you belong to this something,
be it a group or a club or anything else, you want it to last.

Of course, when it ends you try to maintain it.
The others want to maintain it too, or at least they seem to. You try
your best, but often it's not enough, is it?

Say you add the members on facebook. Pretty soon you will find that
people will ignore you in favour of others. This is due to a less
vibrant personality, which is quite normal. Everyone will experience
it at some point, some moreso than others.

Take myself for example. I like to think I'm ok, not too boring
anyway. I make friends easily enough and I try to keep them.
Unfortunately I am quite a serious individual. In a world where clowns
are practically worshipped this isn't too good.

Sorry for the long post, but it was something I felt had to be said. I
may revisit this sometime

Addiction

An addict is bad enough, both to themselves and others. Addicts
encourage the use of that which they rely on. This isn't good, but it
can still be glossed over.
However, when said addict has charisma then the trouble begins. A
friend of mine loves the game world of Warcraft. Now this isn't too
bad an addiction but it has it's own problems, which I won't go into
detail on. The trouble is that she's pretty, charming and as a result,
somewhat charismatic. She has, therefore, convinced another friend of
mine to join her in the potential money and social drain of the
mmorpg, namely WoW.

Damn...

Well today I did basically nothing but make 2 intro/outro clips that I'll probably never use, a bunch of wallpapers that are unnecessary and  otherwise sat at home all day. What a life I lead eh?

I also seem to have forgotten about my book, and also seem to be putting off writing it. I think this may be because I have to change so much of it now. The previous story has fled my mind and in it's place is another, which I think will be slightly better. I really should just sit down and write the damn thing

Carlow Computing

So for the past four days I've been getting up at half six, getting a bus to Carlow at 7:15 and arriving in Carlow at roughly quarter to 9. It seems like a lot of effort, doesn't it? Well, there is a reason.
For the past four days I've been attending something known as "I.T Carlow Computing Summer Camp". However, the name amongst those who attended seems to be "Nerd Camp", and so I will refer to it by that name.
Obviously, I am now wrecked, but I don't regret a minute of it. I can now do a bit of HTML, a bit of a program called Alice, a bit of netoworking (cables not easy to make) and I can ping...which solves all pc ailments. However, while that's all well and good, it was the people who truly made it what it was for me. So while I write this in an alias and on the off chance they find it, thank you for making the start of my summer of 2010/2kX/2k9+1 a high that'll be hard to come down from. There's a long way to the bottom from here!

Oh, and I am a nerd and I am proud!

Started another novel

Ok, so I'm an aspiring author, and I recently finished the first draft of my first novel. I'm starting on the first draft of another novel now, and hope to get another one started by next week. This will mean I'll be working on two at the same time, but hopefully I'll be done by the end of the summer holidays.

I have a total of 4 concepts, ones done and now another is started.
The third needs planning, but I hope to get that done within the next seven days.
The last is only at basic stages.

Hope it goes well

Sun is becoming boring now....

It started off dull today, and I was like "YES HE'S WRONG"...then it got sunny and has remained so all day.

It's so weird going past the Bishop's Palace. There's a guy on day 8 of a hunger strike against pedophilia there. He's camping there as well, but all along the fence at the edge of the road children's shoes have been tied up. Weird...

More Sunlight...

Yeah, another sunny day here. So far the New Zealand bloke at predictweather.com has been right. Apparently he predicts weather by lunar cycles and stuff like that. He said that we're going to have 2 weeks of sun, from the 20th of May.

Also, the forecast tomorrow is for sunlight. We'll see if he ends up 100% right, or not over the next week or two

Sunlight in Ireland?

Woah, it's really hot outside today. It's actually too hot for my Irish self to handle, and the flies that have swarmed around for the past week have somehow multiplied.

So yeah, clear blue skies, lack of clouds. Happy days really. I used to never believe it when people said the son has a positive effect on people, but I can see that that's true. It's quite weird to be honest. Everyone seems quite happy, well apart from the few and far between.