I heart technology

You know that commercial right now that shows two people kissing and says "the original instant message?" - I don't even know what the commercial is for, but I applaud its theme - not completely anti-technology because by acknowledging the power and mainstream usage of something like instant messaging it is in essence saying that these goods and services are important, but by indicating that we as humans are too plugged in for our own good, and too out of touch with each other, its message is one that I wholeheartedly agree with. I love this blog, mainly for its ability to reach our friends and families scattered from California to Maine and share with them the ins and outs of Eddie IV. But I also find myself getting a tad frustrated with our culture's addiction to technology - case in point, Facebook. Right now I am calling it Smashbook though. I got introduced to it by some college friends and although I am hardly an addict, it is something that consumes my time. So Eddie naps, and I type and search and upload photos. And uploading photos still takes way too much time, especially when I have to use one program for the blog (Picasa) and a whole separate application for Smashbook...way too annoying and time consuming. Yesterday I spent over an hour working on this thing on Smashbook called "25 Things About Me" and because I wasn't saving drafts while I worked, and stepping away to do other things, I lost it twice and had to re-type it. That was when I thought about the blog and realized that it is time to back it up, literally meaning save all this meaty info about Eddie IV so that some day, hopefully, he will be able to read about himself as a baby. And yet again I am frustrated with technology and the fact that I cannot just simply print out all the posts or even get it to look good, like the actual page layout, so back to basics: cut and paste.

But it's done and saved, which means I will probably update the layout of the blog a tad and change the surveys. So if anyone has any suggestions for things they would like to see or not see or read or not read (Charlie, I am trying to be concise...maybe I should just say yada yada yada), post a comment and I will try to comply.