The evidence that artificial light strips us of some of our well-being is not conclusive, but it is concerning. If you must stay awake during the night, it may be prudent to leave the lights out, and allow the pineal gland to do its work.
See, mom? Playing games, waching t.v., and working with the computer in a dark room is actually good for me!
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I have to give up ICQ. It hasn’t been useful in a long time, but since I use GAIM it hasn’t been any extra effort to run automatically login to ICQ for the last two active people (both with alternate MSN accounts, too).
The last couple days I’ve been getting a number of authorization requests from a spam bot. Just before I disabled ICQ, I got ten in the span of a morning. It’s incredibly annoying. Maybe if I just lie low for a few weeks, the spammers will move on. I know it would just lead to vigilantism and more chaos, but I catch myself wishing there was a way to meaningfully retaliate against spammers. 
