Are you addicted to this blog?
Family minister Michael Farrugia (a man who left his wife and children for a woman young enough to be his daughter, who was put on the payroll at Malta Freeport as soon as Labour got into government) opened a seminar by anti-drug-addiction-and-gambling support agency Sedqa.
The subject of the seminar was how addiction to gambling and ‘substance abuse’ can affect the workplace. But the family minister chose to depart from that subject and instead spoke about how “addiction to blogs, email and text messages” had an adverse effect on productivity.
Ah, so that’s why government IT agency MITA has this website blocked from time to time on government servers. The reason must be that it affects productivity.
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Some times I think they do it on purpose “Family Minister”
A great example by the Family Minister of how a good family should be.
Oh yes. And how.
I’m so addicted to this blog that I get severe withdrawal symptoms every time Daphne has a well deserved break.
The increase in the number of junkies to it is inversely proportional to the national ignorance barometer.
Yes, I am addicted, but only to this blog – and as I’m retired I can enjoy my addiction to my heart’s content.
Thank you, Ms. Daphne Caruana Galizia. You’re better than all the newspapers published in Malta put together.
And thank you all who comment in this blog.
Same here.
Yes and what is Michael Farrugia going to do about it?
He is going to ‘liberalise’ the use of blogs on government servers. You know, like his government is liberalising the use of drugs.
And he is proposing a legal amendment so that those found guilty of blog-abuse for the first time will not be jailed.
All others will get “hit below the belt,” special courtesy of the “Prime Minister” himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE
What the hell is John Bundy doing on Frank Psaila’s talk show on NET TV? Since when is he an authority on….anything? Is this the way the PN are courting him?
That explains the Medasia connection
I am an adrenalin junky so I read Running Commentary by Daphne Caruana Galizia.
I am addicted to this blog?!?
You don’t say!
I’m not only addicted. I’m also a pusher. I buy budget tablets for the elderly so I can hook them up to this blog.
The Family Minister forgot to mention the addiction to social media and the weird addiction to Facebook likes.
The dieselupetrol.com website launched by the Nationalist Party a few days ago has also been blocked by MITA.
But that’s all right because last week everybody was Charlie.
Good one.
On what grounds? That it incites transparency?
Yes, Je suis dieselupetrol.com
I have withdrawal symptoms whenever the blogger who shall not be named goes on vacation / is busy with the magazine.
I am an addict to the blog and proud.
The fact is that this country is now being run by a posse of incompetent goons whose ineptitude shines through particularly whenever their democratic credentials are tested.
Daph, I think it’s time to research productivity versus internet time in studies held abroad.
Most studies if not all find that employees are happier and MORE productive if they have access to media.
Of course companies have a right to limit questionable material such as porn – rightly so – but to block blogs, emails, media stories?
Here comes communist censorship with which Joe Blow and his Dream Ream are rapidly trying to silence any negative reports about them.
If this doesn’t trouble these Labour voters, then as one person commented so aptly here on this website about the hunting vote, the Maltese will auto-f**k them selves.
Excuse any possible spelling mistakes as I am trying to do this undercover of MITA surveillance as well.
I have this blog as the home page on my home and office computers and my phone browser. Call me addicted but I’d like to keep myself informed.
It’s worse than that. Michael Farrugia left his wife for one of his secretaries when he was a cabinet minister in Alfred Sant’s government of 1996-1998. Then he left his secretary for Amanda Mifsud, sister of that hairdresser from Hal Ghaxaq with whom Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando was photographed at that Rabat pastizzi bar just before his 5am brawl, summer before last.
I am also addicted and also only to this blog.
I also suffer from Daphne withdrawal symptoms whenever you are too busy to write.
Maybe Dr. Michael Farrugia could form some special Sedqa support group?
Is it just me, or did they deliberately tack on “blogs”?
[Daphne – I’m now thinking that, given his age, he meant ‘comments on comments-boards’ rather than blogs. You know how many Maltese people of a certain generation can’t distinguish between blog, comment and post.]
I share the pain.
Does this mean the government is chastising its elves?