It’s amazing how quickly we forget the past. I remember the days of chromaline proofs, litho pens, films, bromides and Fuji’s! Don’t worry…I won’t get too nostalgic with you but things were very different in the industry 20 years ago. I was lucky enough to catch the tail end of an era in design and for that, I’m thankful.
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As is the habit of my generation, we read, view and listen to ‘the news’. And we actually enjoy it… or at least most of the time we do. I love it all, the good, the bad and the just plain bloody stupid and boy am I discovering that there’s a whole new generation of ‘stupid’. Sportsmen who don’t have the brains not to get caught twice; stars with problems that defy description and ordinary folk who find some sort of sadistic joy in copying them. Yes! We certainly are breeding a whole new regime of idiots who will sadly diminish the already sagging gene pool.
I have to admit, that yes, I often err on the side of perfectionism, but nothing bugs me more than websites that are out of date. I cringe when I still see Christmas and Happy New Year messages. I cringe even more when the first ‘current news’ article dates back to 2005. Updating your website is simply essential. I can’t stress it more. It reflects so much on you as a company.
I admit it. I’m an eighteen year old trapped in a sixty year old body and for the life of me I wish some of my aged friends would join me. Let’s face it, we seniors are a tatty lot. We’ve forgotten more than the young folk know, but the bit we forgotten is how to be young.
Who said fundamentalism only exists in politics and religion. Whoever it was has obviously never been involved in the real world. Here’s the news, fundamental extremists are all around us, day in, day out. In all forms and shapes; in all cultures and value systems. How do I know? Because I meet them everyday, I read their thoughts in the ‘Letters to the Editor’, I hear them on the radio and watch them on the TV.
Well…2007 is nearly at a close and what a year it was.
Lafcadio Hern was a master of English. Today, he would have been apoplectic – when ‘wicked’ is defined as ‘good’; when ‘cool’ is a response and not an adjective; when ‘awesome’ can mean anything you like and ‘talk to the hand’ is a form of rejection. Yes good old LH must be turning in his grave, poor chap.