P O V - Point Of View 

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….

Things are really different here.  That’s generally self-evident.  However even I’m taken by surprise sometimes….

There was supposed to be the normal Sunday night football game on NBC tonight.  But jeez, guess what?  The station in SLC decided to PREEMPT the game - in order to broadcast a HIGHLY religious musical performance (as well as assorted LDS religious “talks”) instead.

Separation of church and state?  Not in Utah.  Not only “no”, but “HELL no”….  Be nice if we had an alternative to church-run television…. (well, we would have, had husband not decided to drop the national channels - a whole extra $5 a month - in favor of the “church run local” tv stations…. which aren’t any more local than the rest of them were…. *sigh*)

Okay, so there’s this new HDTV ad from Phillips (I think it is….)  - there’s a cute-ish little girl standing on a rock in the clear probably Caribbean Ocean, and a baby elephant (hair and all) on another rock.  The girl is holding a box.  She opens the box and discusses the new whatever it is from whoever, and the closing line is, “It’s the mirrors”.  (And she’s slightly “lispy” so the word “mirrors” is slurred, but that’s a whole other gripe and post….)

All right.  Now, I don’t give a rat’s ass about HDTV (or any tv at all, really….) - but since my husband lives for sports on tv I get all this extraneous crud when I don’t have my headphones in place…. and with this ad, I wonder….

If you were Phillips or whoever it is, and if your latest and greatest HDTV used mirrors to accomplish its “miracles”, and if you were paying an ad writer these big bucks to advertise….

THEN WHY IN THE HELL WOULDN’T YOU DO SOMETHING LOGICAL WITH THIS?  What’s with this silly little girl who can’t pronounce “mirrors”, and the ocean, the rocks, and the elephant (hair and all)?

So…. listen up dummies.  Here is the ad you SHOULD have been running:

Little girl, long blonde hair, blue dress, white knee high socks, black maryjane pumps.  Holding your little box…. as she watches a white rabbit run off as it looks at the time on a pocketwatch….  she opens the box, and in the box she and the audience see the white rabbit admiring himself in a mirror - cut to the chase, she says (WITH proper pronunciation!) “It’s the mirrors!” while the box reflects the scene up and out….

Alice Through The LookingGlass of course.  And of course, I bet Phillips would have had to pay the earth in royalties - but then, people would GET IT…. instead of saying, “HUH?”

She’s an author, a singer, an activist.  And she’s blind.  Read her take on Dr. Marc Maurer (President of the Nation Federation of the Blind) and his statement in re the latest ruling by a Federal judge:  Money and the Blind

I guarantee you you’ll be cheering this feisty lady on!

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”….