Two sided stories blog

I appear to be a permanent non adopter of certain web experiences - an early adopter of others and late adopter of this blogging habit.

Myspace, facebook, twitter and countless other ways of avoiding the joys of genuine communication are beginning to turn me against those aspects of web life - the one that really interests yet concerns me is "Second Life".
Are you a user?
do you have a fancy avatar and some second life real estate?
are you ready to take your avatar on a journey through the entire internet?
My question is around this issue I read about from the founder (sometimes called the dictator, he can pull the plug on your virtual world with one flick of a switch)
He said he could see, very soon, the subscribers being able to take these virtual journeys, via compatable software, across the internet into different virtual realms.

You could have an avatar go into a virtual Gucci store and buy real clothes for you (with a secret coded real measurments cookie that made sure you got your 40 - 34 - 48 sexy little dress in the right size, even though your avatar looks like Paris Hilton)
all the time sharing your shopping experience with other people doing the same thing.

It is fascinating but has to make people worried surely?
what if computers are eventually able to simulate the thinking of the person behind the avatar so closely that you could programme the PC to do all these trips without your input?
your hard disk could store enough information, and technology could develop artificial intelligence to the point, whereby no one could tell if it was really you...

then it could carry on living in virtual reality after you die...
eventually virtual reality would be completely clogged up with virtual people long after their 600,000,000 originators had left the building of reality. None of them knowing...
maybe right now..?

cup of tea thanking you I am, yes me it is - oops, a "Yoda glitch"
...

I think I will stick with my 1st life, thanks.

Tonight,
- with a Stroud resident I have yet to meet,
we are off to Bristol to attend the longest established laughter club, run by Joe Hoare - see www.joehoare.co.uk

Laughter clubs exist all around the world now, not at all the same thing as comedy clubs, they are for the facilitated laughter exercises that improve health and well being... see my own site for my health background info on this.
It means that once you have discovered the benefits of laughter as a plan of action, you can find like-minded people in major cities around the world and make contact via this easy and happy way. It will my own first time at a full on laughter club, despite attending many minor variations on the theme. feedback tomorrow.

Newbie website owner walks into virtual blog store - picks up catalogue, reads it intensly, doesn't understand very much, decides to start blog anyway - picks programme,
installs...
writes some meaningless words of greeting and a brilliant joke, hits "save" - then "publish" gets confusing message, tries to return to start,
gets 404 error message,
gets mad,
deletes blog,
seeks further advice,
adviser doesn't know about blogs on own website, decides to try again with limited new advice, installs new blog programme, writes entry but has now forgotten brilliant joke, decides to just get on with it, hits...

Its time to laugh -
that's an order from God.