6 weeks later...

Wow! So it's been about 6 weeks since I wrote anything on here - note: on here - mainly due to a profound lack of connectivity (and the need to prioritise other tasks) and writing offline and never getting around to posting... If I have a chance, I might post some stuff up retrospectively, but don't hold your breath.

And I've discovered how rubbish this site looks to some users: those who use micro$oft Internet Evil (TM) versions 5 or 6 - or probably any others as well. Well, tough, I'm afraid: there are no plans at the moment to fix this, although maybe in the longer term... Meanwhile, I suuggest you use firefox which suffers none of the same problems and is an infinitely more elegant browser.

So what's prompted me to write now - aside from delaying/avoiding tactics of more pressing needs, again! I've loads to sort out: finances, papers, employment, housing and friends - but hey! Why should I tidy my room when the world's in such a mess?

Having said that, I saw an article the other day upon the BBC website about a scientist who's filming the entire life of his child to the age of 3 years, ostensibly for scientific research. I must say, it's a project I'm interested in: one I'd dreamed up a few years ago (in the fashion of the time - photography, I believe it was) of monitoring the development over time of a child, including some of (all of!) the environmental factors that may be an influence. But is it ethical? Who has asked permission of the child - obviously no-one. Cos you can't, one cannot, there is no option to do so. The information will be available prior to the child gaining the power of majority (should it happen to survive that long - ever the realist that I am!).