Like Mr Carmo, I have been becoming more and more frustrated with the sheer amount of noise there is online and I am struggling along with the rest of the interverse to swim the stream without feeling like I’m drowning.

I have gone a little further by deleting my twitter account, and I have always had a rule of friends on Facebook, colleagues on LinkedIn and with only two exceptions, it stays that way.

Evidently I am somewhat younger (or just more juvenile) than Mr Carmo though, as I have decided to set up my own photo gallery on my own infrastructure rather than use other services like Facebook with questionable retention policies, or Flickr where a subscription is required for decent functionality.

Thanks to Mr Carmo for the link, there is a terribly geeky quote in there:

In addition, the Golive presenters made a big deal out of users having to be within a 1000-mile radius of the servers, since beyond that the speed of light starts messing things up. {…} I think at least part of the time spent on this was just geek coolness: Wow, we get to talk about the speed of light for real!