Friday, June 1, 2007

Uncontrolled grief

It seems to me there is a sociological research work waiting to be done around the role of roadside memorials (like the one shown) for traffic victims. I call the phenomenon "uncontrolled grief", because that is what it is. there are no rules for the expressions, no rituals no ceremonies, no cloistered gardens or solemn spaces. Without those controls, the tombstone text is a colorful memorial, perhaps better and more widely tended than the official burial site.
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Monday, January 29, 2007

You have to start somewhere...

I've tried. Yes I've tried. But the web site just won't do it for me (see justknowledge.com.au). The provider* say's its an intuitive interface for self administration. For me its the Great Wall of China and I'm a Mongol infant futiley challenging the rocks. Both are impenetrable. I've had a website since 2003 and although it says I'm a devotee of visualisation, there are VERY few pics.

So here I am blogging, because I can't maintain my own site without frustrating the heck out of myself.

I understand there is a technical name for that blankness we get about a person's name - nominal aphasia, if I recall correctly.

Well I'm waiting for someone to give a name to my particular form of web based paralysis, so that I can get sympathy, not just suspicion that I'm an idiot....

*(I do have to appologise to my web builder - he's very sucessful, and has plenty of evidence from others with more malleable minds that his interface is actually the right stuff. )