good luck defining info addiction. exchanging information is otherwise known as conversation. your conversations are work-related, and your work feeds your family. would you call your career a harmful addiction? preposterous.

nevertheless, balance is key. keep the signal to noise ratio useful (healthy).

Sure, the bed’s uncomfortable, and it’s only a double. My feet keep getting intertwined with the metal foootboard, and being metal, it’s cold, dammit.

But the real reason is… no internet.

I can’t write (I like to research and cross referenfe when I do), I can’t post, I can’t DL music. The powerbook is there, but without those airport bars, he seems imasculated. Poor Padawan.

So instead I read. Real stuff. Working through the new Giller winner.

That’s my story. My name is Teddy, and I’m an addict.

The Centre for Online and Internet Addiction
(http://www.netaddiction.com/bio/reuters.htm)

Now being January I am curious to know how you finished up. My GF and I are going on a five day break starting Friday… this I think will be a challenge for me but also a good break from the computer.

We are going from one extreme to another in a sense. We will be going camping – away from where mobile phones work, no electricity and “long drop” toilets. I tend to do it from time to time during the year and find it a good break from “technology”. Now I have an addiction I am not sure how well I will cope.