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This year, thanks to my friend Nathan over at PixlDesign, I will be participating in Shutdown Day. The Shutdown Day Website describes SDay as “a Global Internet Experiment whose purpose is to get people to think about how their lives have changed with the increasing use of the home computer, and whether or not any good things are being lost because of this.”

The simple idea of the experiment is for people to shutdown their computer for 24 hours and explore what great and mystical things lie beyond the monitor. Everyone who has a computer can participate as well as all they have to do is pledge their allegiance at the website, www.shutdownday.org, and turn off their computers for 24 hours on May 3.

And this isn’t a small thing, last year when the project began they had 65,000 people actually shut down their computers for 24 hours and this hopefully will be larger this year.

Well, I’ve pledged my allegiance. My blog and computer will be off all of Saturday, Australian Eastern Local Time. Have fun…not with your computer!