China

I've been following this story recently and it has made me wonder a little as to how events will progress.

I read that employees of Google in China are now being tracked down because if Google did violate China's laws they are in fact criminals. Regardless of how inane that is, it must be a terrible time for both the employees and Google.

If China is one of the fastest developing countries and a future 'world power' I struggle to see just how exactly things are going to work. You have on one side a selection of countries that claim to prize freedom above all else, then, on the other, you have a country that actively crushes freedom in an effort to preserve... well, what? National integrity? That by rooting out people that the state disapproves of the country will improve as a result? I suppose it would work as well as economies do; nullifying the element of the person and promoting profits, stats over personal wellbeing or freedom.

I hear sides saying 'Google is betraying its principles by potentially leaving China', really it's upping the stakes when the Chinese government is putting their clients at serious physical risk. Google is just a business despite what some think, it can't realistically topple the Chinese government. If they stay there people might die. That is a tremendous responsibility for a company to take.

It's just an alien world to me. Oppression displayed so publically to the rest of the world and yet fiercely guarded from those it affects most. It's sad but what can anyone do to fix it? Form the JUSTICE LEAGUE and end the communist oppression? That's just as oppressive. We don't have nearly enough spandex in the cupboards.

Reform

Based on nothing I think I'm more productive the earlier I wake up. If I wake up too early, like most people, I become tired and tiredness = badness. I've been trying to fix my sleeping pattern so I will wake up earlier than usual but there are problems. My brain stands defiantly in the way.

'But no, you can't sleep now! What about this idea? And this idea? And this? How about fixing that?' Now I'm not schizophrenic (I think?) but it's been three nights in a row now and whenever I resolve to be good and sleep early I end up sleeping later than I ever have, then I get up late and don't have enough time to do anything except write in here, which some may call useless in itself. Aside from sleeping drugs or near-fatal injuries I'm not sure what I should do.

Ah well, it's given me time to read a fantastic book that I should have read when a certain special someone bought it for me. I am the worst person to buy books for because, although I profess to enjoy reading, I never do. It takes me years to read anything and no that's not an exaggeration. It took me 2 years to read one of the Harry Potter books

But Danny Wallace's 'Yes Man' is truly a great book. His attitude is childlike and innocent as he finds himself tossed from one chance to another purely on the word 'yes'. I love these writers/comedians, Dave Gorman being another prime example and a close friend of Danny Wallace. Maybe it's just a winning formula to win crowds round by playing a hero within their own act or story, but even if it is, it's a damn entertaining one.

An afterthought - Is waiting not the same thing as stopping?! I'm sure they're different. They must be. Why else would there be two words?

Questionable Content

So you're probably thinking 'why name your blog kind of like traffic lights: it doesn't really work' and well, to be honest, it's because all the good names were taken in 2002. But let's pretend it's a deep metaphor: you think you're doing something great (i.e finally making a blog so you have some small strip of land on Planet Interweb), you momentarily stop and wonder just what the hell you're writing and then... you stop.

But instead of stopping your Internet superhighway car just ends up publishing whatever stupidity you've written down and the ensuing carcrash becomes a blog. Admittedly a very painful, sort of panicky flaming blog, but a blog all the same. And that's how we're starting this one folks, with the carcrash metaphor.

Stay tuned for general nonsense as I write down whatever creeps into my head. Let's hope it's not a bug.