The Last Post

Hello all my faithful readers,

This shall be my last post.

I am currently reading Ben Elton's new novel Blind Faith . It has convinced me that the Library 2.0 Program is an evil and pernicious attempt to secretly bound me to the internet in ways such that will be become impossible to extricate myself from it in the future. It should not surprise us that there is a saying "Oh what wicked webs we weave...".

I am now suspicious of a program that continually requires me to create more and more user accounts....how much more information about me does the world need! And as the accounts profliferate and the data entry increased expotentially how hard will it be for me to find all that data if I choose, as is my democratic and human right to remove it from others' eye's?

Thus dear readers, someone must stand up, in real space (my doctor tells me I need more exercise) and not in cyber space and say "Enough!" If you want to know about me or even better to know me then drop into the library and say hi. I am more than just the some of my html!

This blog will be removed in one weeks time.

In the meantime I leave you with these wise words from Ben:

"'Almost anything that we might wish to read could be located on the net instantly and traced straight back to us. The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of police surveillance. Now, as you know, cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And, of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.'" Blind Faith p.p163-164

With Gratitude
Martin