For any computer programmers and even a large number of almost computer programmers we all know that BASIC is an acronym for Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instructional Code. And while my focus is not on BASIC itself today, let me ad that for a long time I used Advanced BASIC (a seemingly oxymoron in itself) at the office back in my days at IBM and Lexmark – which used basica for the command line launch of the compile and link. To this day, after typing b-a-s-i-c-a-<space>-something else a few hundred thousand times, in regular typing it almost occurs automagically and I can type “… it was a basic thought.” and I will get “…it was a basica thought.“ All that aside, I thought a primer on some commonly used abbreviations and acronyms was in order.
I really hate to break this to the world, but I have just been lazy. Really as for blogging I suppose it goes back to November when I did the month full of posting once a day. Did that sour me and burn me out? I do not really think so. I really dislike making a posting about all the reasons why I have not blogged, as I am sure it is not really that interesting of a read, but I am feeling compelled for my own sake all the same. It is my blog after all so bear with me, after all it is 6:00ish in the AM on Sunday morning and I have been awake since 4:30ish at least.
A few days past the event, but did anyone watch it? I did of course, being a past junkie for such kinds of information, having only really trailed off during the last bit of the Bush (W) part of there deliveries. I found it interesting but came away with a general sense of dismay. As all are away I did not support Obama during his campaign, but once the American people had there say I started to buy into the idea of a dramatic change. A year into things and I see very much the status quo in Washington and to sum up in a few words, a president who now realizes dramatic change was to hard and to settle for subtle changes will be acceptable instead.
Not in the Mood
I have not really been the mood to do much blogging the last few weeks and the number of posts shows it. A couple of times I have been close to being motivated, but I really got the mojo on after having issues with the hosting platform and being shut down yesterday. As ticked off at Lunar Pages as I was yesterday, I suppose I should really be thanking them for getting my groove back on and hence the very reason I am posting this tonight.
Observations 2010
Starting out the new year right. My goal off the top of the bat is to post daily for the month of January. That being said, my biggest first observation of the year is just how much of a cluster the holiday season between and around Christmas and New Years plays on blog readership. I went from pushing close to two hundred daily readers in the first half of December to barely getting twenty some days in between the holidays. Guess that says what most of you are doing at work, eh? Just kidding. In all seriousness I did not post as much during the that time either, but I am back on a roll now and so without further ado, some of the first of my observations for 2010!
I caught a commercial sometime this weekend with Taco Bell lightly pushing the idea of eating light and making it a diet with some selection from their menu. Not only is it something light, like their fresco menu, but specifically they are pushing it as a drive through and diet concept. Apparently, just as Jared has done for Subway in the past, they have some lady who has lost fifty pounds and is the face of the ad-campaign. That being said, I am a bit skeptical of the diet, as I am of several others with the possible exception of Subway. After all, McDonald’s of all places promotes some version of adult happy meals as being light fair and even box it with a pedometer. Some timely ads on their part and some timely advice on my part given the goals some of you have probably set.
I am sorry, I could not resist the name of even bits after last weeks odd bits. Nothing to worry about if you did not get it. In fact, if you are concerned about people thinking you are are nerd, geek, or otherwise and you did not get this, then at least you do not qualify from a technology and computer standpoint to be a such. Anyway, that being said, I am once again making notes as the week goes along given that I liked the way that worked last week for the observations post. And indeed I had a couple of those today and hopefully will follow with a few more through the Christmas holiday.
… time passes …
With the holidays I did ad many to this, but it is now the New Year (and a good happy prosperous one to you) and I am getting back to the blog full force. I have a few to add this and will probably send it on out shortly.
I am being reluctant to use the term resolution. I am not sure the reason behind that reluctance, I just know that it exists. Anyway, as I did last year, here are some goals for going forward in 2010. I think I need to go back and evaluate how I did in 2009, as I see more then one or two here in the list that seem to have become recurring themes. That will be another post if I go that direction. So here are the 2010 goals, in no particular order mind you.
One thing I have been neglectful is covering music that I have been to this year. Fact is I have not gone to any festivals or big name concerts this year, but I have caught a bunch of groups and individuals in the local scene, both in Lexington and even more so in Danville. There are only a handful of places to catch music in Danville and of those most of them have pretty bad acoustics. That being what it is, my favorite place is at Joe’s Fourth Street Deli and Tap Room. Given that, what I really wanted to mention was local groups… and at the top of that list is no surprise, Frankly Scarlet! Check them out by the way at Joe’s on this Saturday eve, January 2nd, 2010!
And of course as a correlation to the best ten moments of 2009, there had to be a worst ten moments/experiences of of 2009. I am not sure if this indicates that I am a negative person or not, but it seems to me that the ability to find the ten negatives was easier. I am going to go with instead that I had such happy moments to choose from that it made it difficult, where the negatives were far and few and hence easier to select. How is that for positive thinking?
