Twitter is deadly

Taken From sidetracked - Girl dies Tweeting in the tub

 

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Girl dies Tweeting in the tub

By Christopher Null

People, people, people. Web 2.0 can do a lot of things, but it doesn’t change the laws of physics, particularly in regards to the transmission of electricity.

To wit: A teenage girl was discovered dead this weekend, electrocuted after dropping her laptop in the bathtub.

Why did she need a computer in the tub? So she could update Twitter. About what she was tweeting remains unclear, but it was hopefully something more meaningful than the soap she was using.

Maria Barbu, 17, of Brasov, Romania, is said to have been plugging her laptop into wall current at the time, after “the battery died during a long session on social networking site Twitter as she took a soak.”

Additional details are lacking, and are unlikely to be forthcoming anytime soon. And it’s unclear whether the laptop slipped from her hands or if she was so wet that the water dripping off of her closed the circuit and caused the shock.

Either way, any technology user should know by now that computers and bathrooms simply don’t mix. (If you aren’t worried about electrocution, think of the germs, won’t you?) While GFCI circuits were designed to prevent tragedies such as the all-too-common hair-dryer-in-the-tub accident, they aren’t perfect, and they aren’t universal, especially overseas.

And seriously, can’t Twitter wait until you get out of the bathtub?

 

Baliktad Na Mundo

You love someone not because you want them to love you too… But rather you love them simply because you found no reason not to.

I have every reason to hate him and I have every reason to stop loving him. Maybe it’s stupidity that keeps me hanging on… Or maybe… Just maybe… I haven’t stopped believing that one day; everything’s going to be okay. The time will come when he’ll be ready and I’m still here, waiting.

Laptop Dilemma

Pichu would be gone from me for 2 – 3 weeks. It’s a sacrifice I need to do to have it fixed while it’s still under warranty.

I don’t know how I’ll survive without my laptop. Almost all of my subject relies on the internet for the distribution of the lecture notes. And, it’ll be much cheaper too if I have my laptop, since I don’t have to print out the slides.

So I guess I’ll blog less for the mean time. I’ll be online every once in a while. Haaaaay.