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New windowsJanuary 8 2009

Image by RebkinSJ via Flickr

So Windows wil be releasing a new OS. Win7.  Good for them. I don’t think they could ever have been able to make people trust VISTA, no matter how much money they put into advertizing.  From what I understand, the people who are trying the beta are very satisfied with it.

Our cat McDuff really likes windows too. He has totally adapted to all the new windows he got here in our new place. This photo is from the old home in Quebec. 

I’ve been pondering what to do with this whole blogging business. I pay for this GoDaddy account and I’ve been asking myself if I really can justify it, when I honestly don’t have a goal for my blogging.  I’m not an expert in anything…nothing that I come up with can possibly  be of any interest to anybody else.  I’m not here to make money, and making a brand for myself….for what? Social media is fun, and I still read all I can in FriendFeed  but maybe with a little more realistic approach to it. 

However, I do not want to give up this place. It’s too much fun to have this type of WordPress blog with all its bells ‘n whistles. I think o

So this is Christmas…December 24 2008

Image by ~*Leah*~ via Flickr

It’s early morning Christmas Eve. A light snow is falling, the temperature has gone up. Already lots of cars on the grocery store’s parking. The sirens of fire trucks and an ambulance are howling, but that’s almost as usual. There seems to be something going on all the time and they apparently respond with both ambulance and firetruck to each call, no matter what it is about. The fire engine is right across from here.

Like everybody else I remember the Christmasses of my childhood. It was almost with a sense of wonder I woke up on Christmas Eve…Mom had cleaned the house, baked…it smelled wonderful, and the Christmas tree was lit up! I don’t think one can re-create that feeling one had as a child. I could clean and bake until I were blue in the face…still not the same. Instead I’ll just accept that that was then and it was nice, now it’s different, but still nice.

People get all worked up over Christmas — at least some — and it’s just a couple of days, then it’s all over! Same thing every year…they shop till they drop.

The other day there was a big sign down here i

The Day before ChristmasDecember 23 2008

Now this morning I checked in to GoDaddy.com to see if they had the new version of WordPress available, and finally they did! I know I could have upgraded myself, but I just won’t bother with all that hassle as I know it will appear in GoDaddy eventually.

The new dashboard looks very neat and clean. Haven’t really checked out the bells ‘n whistles of it all — just wrote a post here in the so called QuickPress box.

Blogging is changingDecember 3 2008

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Volumes have been written about this lately. Some with a different heading…like ‘Blogging is dying’ and so on. I don’t think so, but I most definitely think it’s changing for many of us. With so many social tools at hand, like Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed… I could make the list much longer…I don’t really feel the urge to wade through a list of +50 people to say something on each post. When many of them also are frequent posters it gets quite a task at times.

My friend KJ left Multiply yesterday and she had found a really decent and straightforward way to do it. That’s what led me to write this post and think about the whole concept of what we might call ’social blogging’. Like she, I feel as if it takes away a lot from other things I want to do online… like for example, I want to focus more on this site..which is my own.

Lately I haven’t focused on anything online but that’s because of ongoings in my real life and that’s going to change now.

Going to sleep last night I was thinking about this. It has irked me for a long time and KJ’s post just brought it up to the surface again.

• Do I want to take down my Multipl

Have we lost the sense of awe?October 21 2008

Image via CrunchBase

I know that I have to a certain extent. 

Some time ago I wrote about whether the web is saturated or not. I don’t think it ever will be…nothing can stand still — like everything else it must change…move forward..like life itself. 

Still, I kind of miss those days when we could feel truly excited about something new and when that excitement actually lasted for some time. 

I remember hearing/reading about that Google was about to release a web mail in Beta/Invitation only. How eager I was to get ahold of one of those invitations and the feeling when I actually did get one (via Blogger) and signed up for my first Gmail account. It was started the 1st of April that year and I got my account the 21st… 

Now, there’s almost not one day that we don’t read about something new starting up. Some of them look really good in the beginning but I still forget about most of them.

What led me to write this post was the fact that I in fact did find something that I’m quite excited about and that I think I’ll stick with for some time: The web mail service Zenbe. Apparent