Waiting for trains is boring.
So boring, in fact, that, coupled with my innate Gen X/Y/whatever fear of sitting silently doing nothing, I start to go slowly mad waiting as little as 5 minutes without something to occupy my shallow, fleeting thoughts.
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The late afternoon sun drenches the surface of the water to the sound of waves crashing against the pristine surf. Tropical birds trill out a complex harmony, almost as a counterpoint to the steady, gentle splashes made by a young Hawaiian woman, as she idly swims through the surf. Suddenly, a long, well proportioned form surges out of the surf next to her. The column of spray reveals a giant of a man, over two metres tall, with a great mane of shaggy brown curls and the most ridiculous pair of tight, blue shorts seen this side of Boogie Nights.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any easier to regurgitate the sum total of your inane, malformed, fleeting little nuggets of random shit you feel the need to share with the world, along comes the wordpress app for iPhone.
Not merely content with assisting you in your daily life with such treasures as an app that can tell you when you next train is coming, the iPhone will now remove much of the inconveniences associated with random blogging.
But is this a good idea?
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