Swandives

Apart from being the world’s dumbest moniker evar, Web 2.0 has people buzzing around the web likes bees on speed.

Everybody’s trying to get in on the next-best Web 2.0 application, thereby proving (supposedly) that they’re hip and with it and ahead of the curve. I’ve been sucked into it all over the last few days and I have to say, I am over it. Big time. And the worse bit is how insidiously you can be taken in. So far I have:

• Finally bowed to pressure and signed up to Linked In.
• Downloaded a Firefox plugin called ScribeFire so I can supposedly cut and paste things to post here. Having used it, I can say it’s just as easy to open a new window or tab, and post that way.
• Joined in on a blogging experiment at work (I don’t have the heart to tell them that blogging is already passe). I am using a newer version of WordPress tho, which is kinda cool.
• Purposely NOT signed up for Twitter, coz I think it’s a dumb idea for people with too much time on their hands. But man, it has some serious buzz going on right now.
• Claimed this blog on Technorati.

I think that’s quite enough for now; I’m crawling back into my hole to scowl at the world.

But before I do, here are some things I am loving (no, it’s not all moan, moan, moan):

• The new Silverchair album, which is AWESOME, and more than a bit Splitenz.
• The new QOTSA album, in which Mark Lanegan from The Screaming Trees does vocals for at least one track.
• The Gretski show (aka Big Brother) is back on the tele! More on this later.