It's News to Me

I've already given this idea to the on-duty manager of the grocery store where I shop but she probably filed it under looney ideas gleaned from talkative old men in the checkout line and did little or nothing else with it, so I'm offering it to any of my programmer friends who might want to make a name for themselves and in the process create a useful tool for crazies like me who look for innovative ways to use our Internet connection.  I, like most everybody else and maybe even you, dutifully hand the cashier my «value card» as he or she is about to ring up my purchases so that I can get the discounts that accrue from having given them my name and address and having allowed them to tag me with a unique Customer ID.  They use it, among other things, to print out a listing of the items I have purchased that day, neatly categorized into sections like Produce, Package Meat, Grocery, Frozen Food, Dairy, Candy/Gum, etc., and at the conclusion of that listing they announce that Your Savings Today was $7.48 on my most recent (9/16/07) expenditure of $56.66.  I walk away, informed and satisfied that it could have been at least $7.48 worse.

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Jerry Pounds has tagged me to participate in the meme that he wrote about yesterday that he called «A Favorites List.»  I received a phone call from him, in which he urged me to answer the same set of questions about myself that he answered, and I agreed.  I don't go looking for these meme-type blog entries as do some of my blogging acquaintances, like Tish who says she enjoys them, but since I don't get many requests for specific posts here at my blog, I thought I'd comply with Jerry's request.  So hang onto your hat or hold your nose, whichever seems appropriate, because here are my answers.

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In an email exchange this morning with my friend Juan, who recently celebrated turning 60, he commented that he had been somewhat concerned about me because he noticed that I hadn't updated my blog in «many days.»  He is right of course in a manner of speaking , but in another way he is overlooking that the blog actually is updated each day, even if there isn't a newly composed post like this one.  Since others of you may not be aware of these daily modifications either, I thought it worth my time to point them out to you and to share some of the insightful remarks that Juan made in our exchange. 

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Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

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This morning I discovered through my RSS feeds that version 0.9 of Flock was available for download, so I downloaded and installed it.  I am writing this post using its blog editor.  My initial impressions of the user interface are generally positive as it is quite different than it was when I last used it.  I have taken a hiatus from using each of the intervening versions since I ceased using it on October 30, 2006.  I'll spend the day experimenting with this version and see how I like it.  I'll update this post later in the day with my reactions.

Blogged with Flock

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Thanks to my buddy Juan Gutierrez for pointing out this video to me.

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Paul sent me an article this afternoon from The New Republic titled, «From Whittaker Chambers to George W. Bush.  The End of the Journey» by Sam Tanenhaus.  It was long and interesting and educational.  As I read it though, I was reminded why I like reading things online, about which I've written before here. 

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With all the hoopla about the new Apple iPhone's arrival mere moments from now and with people like Robert Scoble standing on line in Palo Alto («because that's where all the geeks will be»), I thought this cartoon from bLaugh expressed my feelings about the frenzy pretty accurately. I just wish it said iPhooey rather than iPhoney.

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If any of you are still checking this weblog, you'll have noticed that I haven't posted anything new here in a couple of weeks.  I haven't been incarcerated, or hospitalized, and I am not in a coma, I'm pleased to report, but I just haven't felt up to posting anything, and the longer I have waited to post the more difficult it has been to think of anything significant to say upon my return.  Why I have these blockages, I don't know, but have them I do occasionally, so that's just the way it is.  I'll use this post to note a few things that have happened and comment on some discoveries I made while I was on my unplanned vacation from posting. 

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The incredible Mr. Moor, who began blogging recently but quite reluctantly I must admit, has discovered the joy of blogging. 

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