Sometimes Facebook (and other similar sites) are unintentionally poignant. Take this example:

Isn’t that just tragic? There are no quotation marks around that “friends” - it’s just there on its lonely own, as if Timothy really doesn’t have any friends. In reality, this Timothy just hasn’t convinced himself that the whole Facebook thing is worthwhile yet and so hasn’t translated his myriad real-life friends into Facebook “friends”. Still, if I were him I’d add just one contact just so it isn’t quite so pathetic.

OK, so this wasn’t actually my Mac - I was visiting the office of one of my parents. But this was one of my earliest experiences with a Mac, and I remember enjoying it a great deal. I think I probably mostly used the Paint function, which appealed to my sensibilities at the time. I was also into BASIC programming for a while around the same time, creating short programs…

At any rate, it had been quite a while since I’d used a Mac since I purchased a little-used Mac Mini a couple of years ago and then a MacBook a few months ago…

This is my inbox right now (actually, 2 minutes ago when I started writing this post - it’s since got an out of office reply from a colleague in it, but that’s easily solved).

It’s been quite some time since my Inbox was empty - I’ve been too swamped with other things to deal with a myriad of small items that’s come up and once it gets beyond a certain point I tend to let it go entirely as a lost cause until I have some clear time to deal with it all.

I actually gave an audible sigh of relief and my heart lifted for a moment when I finally returned to that pristine, empty Inbox. Who knows how long it will stay that way, but it’s a pleasure to look at for the moment.

Nice that we can have some simple pleasures in amongst the other stuff in life.

Oh dear, two emails in there already. Better stop blogging and get back to managing my inbox… Sigh…