It is funny how you sometimes seem to always return to the same color. I recently decided to repaint my office (the only room we did not repaint after buying the house) from a boring beige to something a bit richer that would of course look nice with my desk and most importantly - my Apple equipment. I wanted something that would really give some life to the room as well as make the brushed metal of my 23″ Apple display really stand out. I combed through a number of paint samples and came out with a can of paint that I later realized was extremely close to the jappler.com background color…with a tad of thebareminimum.com mixed in….which is extremely close to the desktop image I have been using on my main computer for a few years. All in all, I really like blue!

Well well…web 2.0 unexpectedly comes to life in my social circle. What? Someone that I know broke up with her boyfriend after “he wrote nasty things about her on his blog.” The blog changes everything! TMI everyhere! Back when I was younger I used to pass notes on a daily basis to close friends and boyfriends. Now, more than ever, kids/young adults are using the internet, and more specifically, web sites like myspace.com to freely express what is going on in their lives.
This “blogging causes breakup” is very interesting to me because this is the first time I have ever heard about something like this, and the fact that it happened to someone that is close to me makes it even more interesting. There is both humor and a lesson in this. The humor…come on…a breakup over blogging. This makes me realize blogs are like a version of the no-names’ “tabloids” in some aspects. Common peoples’ breakups and makeups are now being publically recorded in a new medium…that I can subscribe to using RSS!

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