The cursor flashed intermittently on the top left corner of the blank page. Before I touched the keyboard, I paused for a moment and tried to imagine something other than an invitation to write. If it was a monitor, I thought, this heartbeat is surely not resting and so, I preceded to take my pulse. Well, we are not in sync. What if this symbol is for the deaf? An alert, a warning. It does have a resemblance to a hazard indicator of a car broken down on the lay by. Have you noticed that when one bulb malfunctions the other picks up the slack and flashes faster! It could actually be the microwave advising me that I didn’t hear Pavlov’s bell and my Cornish Pasty is cooked! My cordless drill charger has a red and green light to differentiate between the current status of the battery. The dashboard of the car has a host of methods to attract our attention, not always red either, add blue add blue add blue add blue add