Technology and the shop.

So, as out-of-town shopping centres did for town centres, so online shopping has had the same effect.

Shops selling unique, individual items seem to be closing down, more quickly than the cost of fuel is going up! Our local second-hand bookshop closed a little while ago, as did our second-hand bric-a-brac shop. Our local antique shop has disposed of all its antiques and gone into the new furniture market. The local charity shops have cottoned on that they can sell some of their second-hand goods at higher prices than previously.

Admittedly, it is great to be able to buy without having to leave your armchair, to see glossy pictures of what you are about to buy and to keep warm and dry, but you loose the thrill of being able hunt through piles of stuff, checking the condition, handling the stuff and actually seeing what you are handing over your hard-earned dosh for!

One of the defining things about modern-day life is the concept of choice: let's keep it that way.

Blogging!

Just been to an interesting session on blogging and how to do it - and discovered I'm doing it all wrongly!

• I don't have a target audience!
• I don't use the conventional way of hyperlinking!
• I don't post regularly enough!
• My posts are too long!
• I don't have anything new or interesting to say!
• etc.

So, why am I doing it at all, especially given my time constraints? I guess I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it! Despite being a technophobe, I managed to teach myself html way back in 1995, but since my numerous webpages were hosted by my employer, who now has much more strict rules about the design and content of webpages, and are no longer accessible, I thought I'd try and add some interesting stuff using a blog.

In reality I suppose webpages are better transfered to a wiki - so I have one of those too! I haven't done much work on it, but do intend to populate it with all those things that I used to have on my webpages - provided I am still interested in those things.

Happy days!