Punky Scraps Challenge 5

The new challenge is up and it is to use this quote.

It isn't my usual thing but the last couple of lines really struck a chord.  I have two sons on the autistic spectrum.  One is diagnosed as classic autism and the other as aspergers.  They can't help their quirks and eccentricities but people often label these as craziness when they really have no idea.  I hadn't a clue what autism was until it was first mentioned to me as a possible diagnosis for my now 12 year old around four or five years ago.

Also now the camera and the computer have kissed and made up here is my take on the sketch challenge for last week. First a reminder of the sketch

I flipped it 90 degrees so I could use a landscape photo instead.

Skywatch

Punky Scraps Challenge 4

This week the challenge at Punky Scraps is to use this sketch.

My version will follow later as the computer doesn't like the picture of my layout for some reason but please do stop by the blog to see what the rest of the design team have created.

Skywatch

Again we have miserable boring, grey skies so another August picture for you but this time from August 2008 taken whilst driving through the Somerset countryside. A bit of a jet stream thing going on again this week.

Another Goal I Forgot

When I was doing my list I forgot one.

FACEBOOK

I've begun to see it in a different light lately thanks to a handful of people.  They use a variety of tools to publish their blogs and have them linked to facebook so every tool publishes the same blog post to their facebook wall feed.  In some cases this is three or more things saying exactly the same thing.  Most of the time I spend on facebook catching up on news is on my phone and these posts take up quite a bit of screen space. Yes I know I can hide them and on some occasions have. Same goes for the obsessive twitterers. Linking their twitter accounts to their facebook accounts generates an awful lot of updates which to be quite frank I couldn't give a monkeys uncle about.  Twitter is twitter and facebook is facebook and I can't see why the two should have to intertwine. The way I see it - twitter is for frequent updates and facebook is more for less frequent updates and gaming/sharing links etc. I really don't need to know via twitter how many times somebody takes a pee during the day and that is why I don't use it.  I used to but then I saw the light (sorry twitter users). 

I have been guilty of status update overload a bit over the last year but not to the extreme some people have taken it via these publishing tools, twitter etc, boredom, simple self obsession, craving for attention or whatever reason.  I have however taken a step back and wonder how others must have perceived three or so updates in a day.  I think to be honest it is a bit self obsessive and that is not me at all.  I think these social network places turn us into something we are not and for that reason I am taking a step back.  I still do the gaming (farmville and frontierville) but my status updates will be a lot less frequent. That is my goal anyway and I hope I can resist being suckered back in.