John Seago wrote:
I am finding that due to my intake of painkillers I seem to lack the self-discipline to learn on my own. I have a tendency to go on to the Internet for information, follow the links, wander of down some obscure by-way, and when BT cuts me off after 2 hours, find I spent the entire time reading stuff which may or may not be useful, but which did catch my interest. Such are the benefits of very early retirement.
Au contraire, this is actually just the effect the web has. It's an attention pit, which sucks you in one minute and spits you out hours later with nothing useful to show for it.
I am a confessed net addict, which means a) I'm getting better at Just Saying No <moan>, and b) browsing through a modem has a similar effect to water torture.</moan>
Alexis