An Ode

To Linksys-John (and to working internet):

G-chekle And Hide

For any of you who don't know me in person, I'm just letting you know now, I'm pretty shy. If I ever do meet any of you in person and don't talk to you for a while, it's not because I don't want to. It's just because I can't bring myself to.

The funny thing is, however, I'm not really shy at all when it comes to talking on the internet. Okay, I shouldn't say I'm not at all, but there's a significant difference.

So what is it about the internet that makes it possible for me to have this double persona? Why is it that gchatting on the internet is not as frightening as speaking to someone in person?

Case in point: today was the JBlogger convention in Israel. I was in the chatroom for a while and had no problem at all saying whatever was on my mind. If that chat room had been an actual room with everyone talking in real life, I would have been hiding in a corner and completely forgotten about.

So,

A. How does one overcome such a weakness of character?

B. What is really so different about gchatting and speaking in real life that I should be so shy of one and so much less so of the other?

Why Internet Explorer Stinks (Otherwise Known As 'Why Firefox Is The Best')

When a browser shuts down on you three times in a row in the span of five minutes and all you were trying to do was send one measly email, it's a clear indication that said browser is quite inferior to other browsers like, say, oh...Firefox. Firefox - which never shuts down on me and has colored tabs and has cool add-ons (such as Sage, which is one of the best things ever) and is just better looking and has a much cooler logo...there's no real competition here, is there?

And we're back!

Internet is back and ready for action! Yay! When you don't have internet for a while, it makes you realize just how much you depend on it. It's a little scary, actually.

The other thing is, have you ever been worried about something, but you don't want to actually talk about it because doing that would make it actually real, and it may not really be anything at all anyway?