It's all good

Not only am I feeling much better following a decent amount of sleep for two whole days in a row.

Not only was work very productive today.

Not only is it Pi Day.

But there's the most fantastic good news courtesy of adrenalineanima.

The future's transparent

Two articles I've read recently - Kids, The Internet, and the End of Privacy and The Internet Makes us Naked both seem to be surfing the zeitgeist that kicked off with The Transparent Society (and in some ways with Andy Warhol's famous pronouncement).

There seems to be a definite generational divide between those people who grew up after the internet explosion and are quite happy to slap their entire lives up on the web for anyone to read, and those people who grew up before it and find the idea of sharing their life with random strangers completely incomprehensible and pretty darn scary. And amongst the younger crowd there's a more general movement towards believing that a person shouldn't be ashamed of the things that previous generations used to keep hidden. That if you look around you'll always find someone wierder and more niche, and the things that the vast majority of us do aren't actually that strange - they just weren't talked about in the past, so it seemed that we were alone with our passions.

It happened with homosexuality - the more people came out, the easier it was to see that "they" were everywhere, and they weren't that strange. That, after all, was the point of pride marches - to make it clear that people weren't alone, and they had nothing to be ashamed of. It's one of the plus points of cities - we're exposed to so many different kinds of people that after a while we expect to see it all the time and "other" isn't anything special any more. The internet brings that exposure to everyone - it becomes much harder to hide the diversity of the big city from your children when it comes into your home, you have to deliberately cut yourself off from the world in a way that most people aren't willing to.

I'm sure some people will say this is just a fad - but I really don't think it is for the new generation, and I think that it's something that will only grow stronger with time. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed

(The icon was chosen at random, but it's a nice synchronicity)

A moment of self-doubt

I'm suddenly not sure if I'm gay. Anyone care to help me with this test?