Paradoxically, To Be Truly Idle,

The Siesta Provides A Delightful Detour From The Working Day And It Also Has A Practical Value As Far As Productivity Is Concerned. Winston Churchill Had A Good Long Siesta Every Day During The Second World War And He Said It Was The Thing That Enabled Him To Cope With The Pressure.

Embrace The Faff. Stare Out Of The Window. Bend Paperclips. Stand In The Middle Of The Room Trying To Remember What You Came Downstairs For. Pace. Drum Your Fingertips. Move Papers Around. Hum. Look At The Garden.

In This Age Of Getting What You Want And Getting It Now, The Simple Pleasure Of Browsing Is Often Forgotten.

Surely, Anyway, A Working Day Of Eight Or Nine Hours Which Is Not Split By A Nap Is Simply Too Much For A Human Being To Take, Day In, Day Out, And Particularly So In Hot Weather.

Facebook Is Not Ideologically Neutral. In Fact, It Emerges From A Very Particular World View Which We Can Trace Back To Hobbes. I Discovered This By Examining The Profile Of Zuckerberg's Fellow Board Members Who, Unlike Him, Are A Very Interesting Bunch And, I Suspect, The Real Power Behind The Poster Boy.