Thursday 18 March 2010: Too Busy, Overcast, And Hi-Contrast
A good discription of the picture, and the way work is at the moment. I feel like a grazing beast, taking bites at lots of tasks. Running some projects, working as the odd jobber on others, doing repetitve tasks on yet more, It's no way to be. I feel in some ways like I need to make time in the diary...Tuesday mornings it's X, Thursday afternoons Y. Of course it never happens like this because project a always wants a bit of your ass in Ys time, and project D is never able to proceed when a lull in project J gives you a spare hour.
March has just ben a frenetic whirlwind, like there's been no time to reflect on the interesting things happeing or come up with the analysis on which my work is often based for the need to endlessly plough through, send tasks around like planes on a Heathrow morning, cajole and persuade partners and colleagues, schedule time....stop....write a training course...take a phone call from Brussels...think about whether a new venture is worthwhile...eat...teleconference with people in three countries...deliver training...write a report about a different training.... Working in the last 20% capacity is very very hard indeed...that's why there is an 80:20 rule, and ships like these can go to 120% in an emergency.
Anyway....rant over.
What I actully wanted to talk about today was the dark web....this was triggered by a story in The Sun triggery sun story about self-harm, which decried pro-self harm sites as being to blame for a woman's self-harm. As opposed to the unbearable pain that she was unable to express any other way, or the fact her other coping strategies might be easily overwhelmed by emotional turmoil.
There are some outstanding self-harm sites online, and SI is such an intensely provate thing, that most young people won't let anybody knoww they are self-harming, and will look for reliable information online.
If that Sun articel stopped one teenager from finding their way to good resources like FirsSigns, TheSite and 42nd Street, it's a crying shame.
My point is we all know where to find the dark side of life...if you want to buy drugs, you know where to look, if you want a gun, you can guess which pubs might be a good bet. And you choose not to go there. The web is the same, there are dark areas, and there are dark subjects, but most people choose not to go there.
Sensitive approaches are needed to find out why people use these sites and forums, and then create services that take the things that attract people and divert them from those behaviours using the methods and media they find attractive.
How indulgent...two rants in one day.
Night!
PENTAX K100D : f/9.5 : 1/125" : 230mm : ISO 400
Comments
superb image! a brilliant capture and blip!
~ flashead
I like the flatness of this - really appealing.
~ 42
Fantastic write up hon. I completely agree with your comments about the SH websites - I'd be so disappointed if some girls felt they couldn't try and find information where they are likely to get it because of scaremongering...
~ sweetpotatosky
Your write up had me nodding in agreement.
I like the image you have captured. I like the fact your eye is trying to make sense of what it sees and pick of the different ships.
~ Silverback
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