Blogging seems to be going mainstream. Everybody's doing it, or so reports Business Week. Sigh... As soon as everybody's doing something that you've already been doing for years, it's probably time to move on to something else. Now they're commercializing blogging. Contests to see who draws more to their ranting than other people. Get on the top ten. Find out which other people link to your ranting, and how many. I looked. Zip. Nada. Cool. The software is all automatic. It'll do the time stamp. Sometimes you can just email your rant and have it published automagically. I kinda' like doing it the old-fashioned way.

The Italian restaurant down the street closed their doors. A small reminder of how serious this all is. Of course, this is one of those restaurants with a chef. Which means that your meal consists of three bites of food with some colored squiggles on the plate, and it costs you 75 bucks. The candle shop is out of money, trying to hold the doors open a day at a time. I'm still paying the mortgage with dot-com stocks that aren't worth their weight in guano. It takes a whole lot of 'em to pay the mortgage these days. Guess I shouldn't complain - they've put food on the table for a couple of years now. Longer than I anticipated. Meanwhile Guitar Center posts yet another quarter of record breaking sales and profits. Sigh...