News Blackout - take 2

After my little rant last week about the coming Apocalypse I'm trying to be more positive as all the negative media I had been reading has left me feeling depressed. Maybe I need another news black out. The last time I did this I felt great for a few days but like anyone whose tried to give up smoking will know, you have to make that you make sure that you have no access to cigarettes at all. This will mean forbidding the good woman from watching any news programmes in my presence, and attempting to self-govern which websites I go on.

This second point will perhaps be the hardest one to do as I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to the world wide web. Having my own office and an attention span shorter than a goldfish's makes it extremely likely that, at some point during my working day, I will get the overwhelming urge to flick onto Reuters or the BBC for a quick sneaky peak at the days events. For all the good things it does the Internet is the mother of all distractions. Take this blog for example. Hardly anyone except myself ever reads it but I feel compelled to keep writing - usually as an alternative to doing any work. The same can be said for news websites. They are great at distracting me from what I should be doing but I end up feeling mad about things over which I have no control. So Iran is flexing it's muscles in response to Israel's posturing. In what possible way will I be able to do anything about it other than getting mad about the possibility of another war which will no doubt involve us and the extra money that I will have to pay at the petrol pump.

So as of now I'm having another no news day.

Feel free to join in and feel good about society again!