I may reach a point where I can do everything from anywhere, with any device. Having discovered I can text to Twitter and email to Posterous, I can also reach my own blog, it would appear, via email as well. Whatever next? Facebook updates by carrier pigeon? MySpace by telegram?

It never ceases to make me wonder, and worry, just how connected we seem to have become. We have become willingly enslaved to our virtual social networks and yet at the same time they have set us free – or something like that.

Mind you, I’m saying this assuming the damned thing works at all!

I spent a while looking decidedly orange… and, when I saw this WordPress theme, it seemed like time to go orange all over again.

It also gave me a chance to turn my hand to a little Photoshop practice – creating the stars behind the date and the badge in the header. I need to practice more… spend time going through the functions and whatever tutorials I can find. Knowing how to use Photoshop well would certain be a great advantage to me, both at home and in the workplace. Having a grasp of Photoshop is the sort of thing you can stick on your CV and know that it will have value, alongside your spray of other skills, ancient and modern.

So, hope you don’t mind the change… and expect to see more globs and blobs around here in future.

Relevant reading:

I don’t have much to do with blogs. Hardly write online at all. Never engage in pointless chit-chat and banter simply to fill space.

Oh… OK. Who am I kidding? I have one or two blogs around here somewhere. And now, I have an ‘experimental’ blog – on the alpha test – over at profy.com. The blog comes from Russian coders and shows promise. Apparently we’re only seeing about 20% of the potential functionality so far – but the site seeks to combine blogging and social networking into a natural whole.

I shall blog here and there about my experience and findings. Over there I inhabit the Borederland – so, if you get the chance, do read and maybe even try it yourself.

Now that I have taken the leap into the 21st Century, I have the chance to flood my page with content from other sites as well as my own. So, not only do you have the chance to read my drivel here, you can read it from my other blogs – like Renegade Time Lord – and see the sort of things that keep me entertained – like Digg and Penny Arcade. I think you should appreciate that sort of generosity, especially considering you didn’t even ask for it.

I visited Waitrose today. What a fascinating store. Of all the stores I can easily visit, Waitrose ranks amongst the higher class supermarket brands. I mean, any place that stocks quote so many Duchy Original products has to be catering towards a different class of customer. My wife positively groaned at the prospect of my spending so much above the odds for some of their lemon curd… Even though it’s just another supermarket, the place just seems to ooze class, from the engaging product packaging to the crisply attired staff with polite and gracious personalities. Marvelous.

I have taken more than four-and-a-half years to make this decision, but in the end I had to… I have a few blogs to juggle here and the old format made it difficult to handle. Now I can see what I’m not posting all over the place – and keep this journal up to date a little more simply. It might take a moment or two to shift some of the old material over here; I can’t possibly leave Metal Mickey and James Bond Jnr alone in the dark to fend for themselves. You’ll just have to hang on a moment…