P O V - Point Of View 

First, the link to the article. Food for thought, a good chew over some background stuff, and an enlightening look at “not JUST one man’s” vision for the future of the web as we do NOT know it - yet.

But as we may know it intimately in the future…. yes, wholeheartedly yes!

(Another great post on this whole “nexweb” concept here…. and here….)

I say that having come recently from a disturbing discussion regarding the progression forward (using xhtml/xml as the “progressing” technology) of a new blogging platform - with a final “vote” in favor of regression to html 4.01 which seems not only shortsighted in the extreme but in the case of the software under discussion, deliberately obstructive. I was one small voice/vote in that debate, and had this series of articles popped up sooner, I would have perhaps had more ammunition in the particular discussion.

My point? If you cannot imagine the future - no, I’m not talking specific details per se; I’m talking an overarching ability to allow your imagination to encompass things which it perhaps cannot even BEGIN to actively visualize - you will remain mired in today. Regarding the software platform, those “four horsemen of the non-apocalypse” effectively mired a potential bright star in the mud of today’s technology. Why? Because they A: feel threatened by a Web which apparently they are not only not capable of imagining, they aren’t going to be capable of using; and B: their agenda is stagnation, not stimulation.

Today is nice. It’s safe. It doesn’t require any ability to flex, to change, to IMAGINE change. Is that where YOU want to be?

Or do you want to GO, to reach the stars, to stretch your entire being reaching for that next level?

I know where I want to be, to go, to reach. How about you?

1. Rushed release.
2. Thousands of problems reported on the support forum.
3. VERY few answers to those reported problems.
4. Simple fact 1: the 2.0 branch will be supported for quite a while yet (supposedly - let’s don’t hold out collective breaths here though).
5. Simple fact 2: 2.1 didn’t add anything I need to wp; in fact, it added stuff I’ll never have any use for, and which is just that much more to bork when you least expect it.

Now normally, I’m known to be an early adopter of software…. However, WP2.1 falls into the same black hole as Windows Vista with me - not now, maybe never.

There’s been an increasing level of dissatisfaction and frustration in the WordPress community for the last year or so. Lots of reasons, not really going to go into it here as that’s not really the reason for this post.

The reason for the post? The “news”: Habari! It is NOT a “fork” or a rewrite or anything else “of” WordPress. It is itself, and hopefully will be something wonderful in time. I’ve installed a “playpen” at Dilletante’s Edge - redid a wp theme for it so it’s more to my liking, and am looking forward to having fun!

Now if I could just get google groups to think I really AM signed up….

Happy New Year to all those who keep the Western version of the calendar.   I have a hard time believing we’ve flown through another year.  The older you get the faster time seems to run….

I’ve ever had server-side…. Since I moved to Network Redux, it has literally been quiet as a grave.  Thankfully.  I could not be happier…. It’s kinda like the TV ad for cars or brakes or whatever:  “on the way home…. NOTHING HAPPENED”….

Let’s see how it’s working now - did some changes here lately….

My fuschias in June….

I’ve been reading LotR since 1965, about once a year - the four “main” books, and sometimes everything else published/available at the time…. that’s 40+ years of Tolkien’s masterwork, and every time I read the books, I find something new (or at least something I didn’t remember from the first - or last - time I read them).

Then the movies came along. A lot of people, some of my family included, got a bit miffed (or more than that….) at the “liberties” taken with the books to make movies out of them. Now, I don’t do theaters. I never see movies until they come out on dvd. So by the time the movies were viewable here in my home, I’d heard it all. And it’s all okay - because the movies “fit” me the way the books always have…. sure, there are things that are different from the books - but it’s a different medium, with different needs and intentions. So I don’t have a problem with those parts where the books seem to have been “rewritten/reframed”…. it’s all okay, the movies are - magnificent…. only word for them.

And that brings me to the music “link”. I’ve loved Enya, Clannad, Sinead O’Connor, et al ever since I began hearing them. It made perfect sense to me that some of the music for LotR would be of that genre/feel. And now, I’m hearing the pieces from the movies on my pandora stations. Which strikes me as being the most wonderful sort of providence….