Wasting more time.....

Computers, can't live with them, can't live without them, or can you? I am slowly getting to the point where I am considering leaving the computer era behind, on a personal day to day basis.

I have no idea why a sometimes mature, normally sane, free spirit accepts the dictatorship of a chip dictated machine? Why is it that when I try to read the news online, numerous applications and programs suddenly can't live without my attention?

Java update available, Avast has updated your virus data base, Acrobat reader available for update, google adds, everysingleaddyoueverwanted.com loading, Firefox is installing a new version, your profile is being updated, you do not have Flash, please install it now......

You know, I only wanted to read the headlines before going to my appointment! Is it only me, or does this happen to all of us? Maybe it's just me, computers fall under the same rule as picking the right line in the store.

Now, why do we accept this? If I go to the store and they dump the whole inventory in my buggy, I will most likely leave and go somewhere else. Can you imagine going through the buggys content and take out what you don't want? Nope, but when it comes to computers and computer programs it's perfectly ok. What I'm saying is that the default is to accept whatever, and then if we don't want it we have to make an active choice. Shouldn't it be the opposite, if we want it we act?

Now, I'm not totally against this. Fact is I might do the same if I ever have an exhibition again. I hand over a paper to the visitor with all the paintings listed and boxes already marked with an X. Then at the bottom I write "Erase the X for items you do not wish to buy. If you plan to return to this exhibition or an upcoming one and want to disable the buy option, please visit my website to register".

Can't live without it, computers and the internet.