The new model year of American cars is usually every September. There always used to be ads in August for great savings on the end of model year cars to make room at the dealerships for the new inventory. I don’t recall seeing any commercials for this last month and very few commercials by dealerships for the new cars that are supposed to be out now. Of course, I am watching less TV than I used to, but still.
On the West Coast there are many radio stations that play jazz, smooth jazz and easy listening stations. Even classical stations. I find it really strange that here in Music City, the radio stations are either pop, country or classic rock. We don’t have a blues station, or a jazz station at all. When I feel like some soothing background music, I have to pop in my earbuds and listen to music that I’ve found on my own on the internet. So sad, and a really poor reflection what should be the very best of all music genres here.
Planning my big Labor Day weekend coming up. Everyone here seems interested in a big backyard gathering, with a huge barbecue or at the very least a picnic where we grill burgers and hot dogs and everyone brings a dish to share. We used to go to the beach to celebrate Labor Day, but with the price of gas still so high, we are staying closer to home.
I am really hoping that the fine folks at automattic / wordpress will roll out less updates this year. Don’t get me wrong, I love fact that they actually do security updates, and that there is a global community working together to find any security issues and reporting them so they can get fixed, but all of the new features they keep coming up with are really a waste of time. I’d also like to see them spend more time fixing bbpress and buddypress.
I love wordpress, but I do not enjoy the massive amount of time I have had to spend helping my friends constantly update their blog sites. I see a lot of promise in the buddypress add-ons, and the bbpress forums – but those seem to have so many problems and lack of attention to essential ingredients, that right now they are nothing more than snips of code hobbyists might spend weeks of time trying to get basic functionality out of, only to find lacking support and better products from other software vendors.
Hopefully this will be a better year of polished products from Matt, Doncha, and the rest of the Automattic crew. Right now I am really torn about keeping a standalone wordpress, and almost ready to tell all of my friends to simply switch to a different bloggin product in order to avoid all of the constant manual updates to wordpress and various plugins. I already steer friends and colleagues away from the bbpress and buddypress products, as there are much better solutions available. Even though some of the better products cost money, and these open source projects are free, once you add up the hours spent trying to get basic functions to work properly, you will find that spending a few hundred bucks actually saves you lots of time and money. My 2011 hope is that this will change this year.
The migration of the masses has been slowly eroding away many blogs, and chat portals and even email communication around the world. It’s been affecting the way I communicate with friends, and family, and even the connected internet world as whole. As more and more people spend more and more time using facebook, I see many people using the other chat, email and blog services less and less.
For quite some time the industry has been touting the mobile web as the new big frontier for internet and communication, and I do see that as being a big segment of the world market in the future. I do however see the future of yesterday as it is today, and currently it is facebook. I have a facebook profile, but I do not use it as much as so many other people are.
The amount of time that so many people are now spending on facebook is definitely taking away from many of the other great places on the internet. What is most disturbing to me, is how many people use facebook so much that they assume that everyone else on their friend’s list is using it in the same way, and those assumptions often lead to expectations that we know what is going on in their lives simply because it was posted on their wall, in the activity stream, or added to their photo albums. I for one do not see all these updates that everyone expects I have already seen.
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Cars and Trucks, TV and Movies | Alice Pretchet | 
September 24, 2011 10:19 pm | 
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