Damn the press!!!

Yes, damn the press!!! Specifically the ones who 'outed' Prince Harry being in Afghanistan. Are they proud of their scoop? Are they proud of taking a unique experience, away from this young man?

Unique yes. Here is a young man who has grown up, in the public eye. Always watched and gossiped about and all those weird things. He had this one opportunity to live the role of a true member of a team. An anonymous member of a team, for the first and maybe last time, in his life!

A chance to live as a member of a combat military team. Unique for any man/woman. More unique, for the "spare" to the English thrown. In a combat team, each individual is totally devoted to the safety of the others. He had the chance to really live the life of 'A Band Of Brothers.' And he did so well, for 10 weeks out of a six months tour.

And then, it was all over. Due to the rottenness of certain of the Multi Source Media. Damn them! It sickens me.

:-((((

News article

'Eat that frog!'

For many years, it has been said, that if the first thing you do each morning, is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long. Your "frog" is your biggest and most important task, and the one you want to procrastinate.

And it's also been said that if you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. If you have two tasks, begin with the biggest, hardest and most important of them.

If you have to eat a live frog, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long. You need to develop the habit of tackling your major task first thing each morning, without taking too much time to think about it.

>,-)

From: "Eat That Frog"

Information overload

I've heard of 'Information Overload.' But I recently actually experienced it for myself.

There is so much info out there today. In all forms, of course. But most easily accessed, on the Net. And we sort of convince ourselves that we "need" to take it all in. A silly plan in itself, but that doesn't stop us from "trying."

I keep lots of non-daily-reading blogs in Google Reader. Those which fall under the topic of 'Pretty.' And those which fall under the topic of 'Simplicity.' The 'Pretty' is self explanatory. The 'Simplicity' covers... how to live more simply, in all its forms. And also covers how to accomplish culling our clutter and unnecessary 'stuff.' and the like. And also, finding more inner peace in this rush-rush-rush world. And like I said, I don't read them every day. But I recently took some time to really zap through them. Ouch!

My head hurt after. Really. I knew I'd actually experience this thing called information overload. And I knew it didn't feel good. -sigh-

OK, lesson learned. Now, how not to repeat it?

First of all, do I really need that many blogs on the topics? The 'Pretty' ones are quite easy. Just scroll through them, looking at photos of things. Quick work! But all the ones, under the 'Simplicity' umbrella... Well, I think I'm gonna' have to take a hard look at those. See how many over-lapping ones there are. And cull some. Because those take time! They have to be read. And sometimes lead to links, in other places on the Net, as well.

So OK, I have a plan.

But the most important part of this whole exercise is ~~ to start doing some of this stuff, and stop just reading about it. Duhhh me. How much common sense does that take, to figure out, hu? Read. Read. Read. OK! Now!! It's time to doooooooooooooooooooo! :-)