Ask me what I think of Safari. It just "quit unexpectedly" obliterating yet another blog. This time it was almost complete, and it's gone. Not meant to be.

I remember when I got my own car, I mean when I was married. Ah, the second car! Supposed to be the symbol of leisure and lots of freed-up time. Yeah, well, it turned into a plough. All the scut work, the errands, the pick-ups, the kids' appointments, all became the activities of that car. Leisure turned into work. Often in history it has been the opposite. Horses were for transportation and work but then, after the combustion engine, they became the sport of kings and the indulgent leisure of people who could afford them. Candles (tallow, whale oil, rushes, whatever) were necessary for light but after electricity became luxury items, decorative but not useful.

Marshall McLuhan described light as information. And he said that people wore their cars.

I guess I lean on my computer and when it gives way under me, I'm not only cut off, I'm silent.