New Look Inevitable

It may seem a little surreal seeing the screenshot above. The image within this image is to give a goodbye to this Blogger template that is (according to Blogger) no longer valid. If I ever want to remember how it looked, I'll have to go back to this entry. The signs of the design's demise are already present.

If you look to the right frame and "About Me", I am now "not specified, not specified", and my Links have all been eliminated, except for Google News, which I never put up as a link in the first place!

Rather than add new designs they are forcing us to change to a new design that they deem as "better" - more features for visitor analysis, no doubt.

Where have I heard this before?

I'm sure many, if not all of you, have Facebook pages and know exactly what I am talking about - Timeline! Timeline has gotta be the biggest "make work" project on the internet, giving work to all those techies at Facebook in the name of progress (?). They really should do an online poll to see how many people are happy with this page construction mess. My old page was more in order of time than this!

The internet is full of "if it's not broken, why fix it?" websites. Web designers galore are pushing to revamp pages to include all the latest widgets and wadgets, and things that will analyze the data of the visitors to your page. This, I'm sure, is most likely fed to some internet marketing company somewhere to predict trends in fashion, music, and whatever they see as "the next big thing".

I run a couple of other blogs, and no doubt they will be assimilated into the collective as well.  I guess that's the price of having something free on the internet.

Hey, sorry for the rant.....just something I wanted to get off my chest.

Oh, and another thing. Standing in line for my coffee this morning, I couldn't help but watch as the girl in front of me tweeted on her cellphone that "this was the second time this morning she was getting coffee." Has it come down to this? Have we not got anything better to do than to tell the world every silly little detail of our life? Is this girl going to tweet in another hour that she had to piss for a second time this morning because of that second coffee?

Without a Facebook page or Twitter account, one has become a social pariah. So, you better have content to put out there. I tell you, I'm questioning what I put up. Not for security sake, but for "who the heck would find this interesting enough?" sake. I am really close to either closing down my Facebook page or editing my list of Friends down to a minimum.

Somewhat in the same vein is the fact that I am now questioning whether it is worth it to maintain a land phone line. With the majority of inbound calls being from thosy annoying telemarketers, the only consistent use I'm getting out of it is my internet access. But, I am told there is a way around that if I get rid of my land line to keep my internet access.  I'm sure there are many people who have already left their land line in favour of a cellphone-only lifestyle.


Have I become a grumpy old man, afraid of change? I always thought that new technology was so cool. Where did my idealisms, etc. regarding progress go?


We all feel nostalgic at some point for the way things were. It's only human!  Change is inevitable. New looks are inevitable. Progress is ineveitable. Death and taxes are inevitable.

......I need a drink.....


10/30/2012 - Well, nothing has changed. Looks like my blog is not changing. Looking back, it appears I ranted for nothing. But I still have to fix the links......someday. Stay tuned....