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April 25, 2007 at 3:39 pm
baxtrice
I, too share your addiction to information consumption, but being a web developer means that you must always be on top of the emerging tech from the web. I also have been involved with someone who had an internet addiction. The best solution I can give you is to set time “away” from the computer and spend it with your loved ones. The information will still be there when you get back. But, on your behalf, you must also communicate with your girlfriend that even though you are ‘plugged in’, it’s part of your job/career – would you expect your girlfriend to spend time with you at her job? No, there must be a seperation of work and free time. And only you and her can set those boundaries.
April 26, 2007 at 2:41 am
matbalez
Good advice baxtrice… it’s what I plan to do…
April 26, 2007 at 4:42 pm
heri
this is funny
you should show/tell her what you are learning and writing.
also show her the people behind blogs. (yulblog for instance)
anyway, you can unplug too sometimes. gives me inspiration too.
April 27, 2007 at 4:32 am
SekhmetDesign
I tried to explain – for years! – to my ex why I spent so much time on my computer, working on websites, programming, webdesigning; that I was not surfing all the time on the web, and I was doing some productive stuff. He also didn,t understand how I was suppose to study on my computer by programming a web page in php or javascript, as I was studying at the time in multimedia.
Maybe it is one of the major reasons why he is my ex now and I have a boyfriend that work in the same domain as myself. :S
May 21, 2007 at 3:15 am
Leah
Like SekmetDesign I also had an ex that didn’t understand (ex-husband though). The current husband understand a little more but there are still times where he would prefer me to be in the lounge room, in his company, sharing his preferred form of information consumption, the TV.
We have worked out that what he wants is my presence so we can compromise and at times he will join me in the home office and do stuff that interests him and other times where I join him in the lounge room – while he watches TV and I tap away on the laptop. And then there are times when we both must put the information aside in favour of conversation.
May 21, 2007 at 3:25 am
Mat
It’s a good point that “conversation” is an irreplaceable way to exchange information and emotion… I value that most highly.