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“Mom, it’s not that I’m depressed. I’m lazy. I know that I need to do stuff, I just don’t want to do it. Do you really think that Paxil will change that? No, really. I thought Paxil was for depression, but according to you; with all your medical knowledge, Paxil is the anti-lazy drug? Do what you want. You’ll probable slip it into my cereal anyway.”

Has anyone noticed that the whole damn city is full of flies? gnats? Little tiny buggers? Is it some sort of invasion? Will they all come together to form one super fly and enslave the masses? If it ran for office would it be considered a third party candidate?

It has gotten so bad at my work that I went and got a can of Raid and some hippie fly strips and have mounted a Patten like campaign against them.

Is it the hot weather?

It is articles like this from News.com that always make me chuckle and sigh with pity.

Every generation has struggled to find a voice of it’s own. This may be the first one struggling to find a market slogan of its own.

Alanna and I were hanging out and talking about the crop of younger people that we know, born after 1982. Here are some of the things that we thought about.

• They would have been around 10 years old when Nirvana was big.
• They don’t remember TV without cable
• They were just barely in college for 9/11
• They have never heard of anything but a 24 hour news cycle
• Constantly in touch but with little to say
• Pop Culture obsessed
• Brand obsessed
• Very little reading besides magazines
• They probable had ATM and credit cards at an early age.
• Grew up with computers, yet don’t really know how they work.
• Not much of a work ethic
• Over dramatic about the impact of their own life on the world around them.
• Huge sense of entitlement

One of the things that I realized is that I can’t name someone who is around 24-28 who is some sort of hero or roll model? Football players? Britney Spears? It is always the job of the generation after to destroy the culture before them and recreate it anew. But what exactly is it? I see people who say they are into music, who don’t have any music or don’t play music. I see people who say they are spiritual who are mostly ignorant of all the world’s biggest spiritual movements. I see people who say they are obsessed with hard work, take more vacations than everybody else in the office. I hear a whole lot of talk and not a lot of action and I think maybe they are “Generation talk a lot of trash”.

Since Mint.com got a nice mention for the TechCrunch40, a conference about new web APPs, I guess I can finally start talking about the Mint.com beta that I was in. Look, it’s all Web 2.0 and everything! (Sarcasm intended)

Overall Mint.com is a nice web APP where you hook up your financial accounts to one central location and you can see all your info in one place. Transactions, spending, reporting, it’s all there. It’s a free APP and Mint sells its aggregate information about users to pay for the APP. If you can get over the security fears and information fears about giving someone this kind of information and putting it online, it’s a nice service. They are real up front about what info you give them and who gets to see what, and I liked that about the service. They have a nice page about safety that spells out their data uses.

You get to see all your transactions which are categorized for you, you can see your spending and saving habits in relation to the average. A nice feature is that based on your spending it gives your ways to change services or providers to save money.

Some minor distractions were that you couldn’t really change and add categories and it didn’t seem to have a mechanism to account for moving money from your account to an IRA or savings account. But what do you want, it’s beta and FREE.

I still prefer a nice desktop based program like “MoneyDance” but if you want a simple program to get you going with personal finance. Mint is a nice option, and you can’t beat the price.

I made a post while back about “All in one Apps” and how none of the larger web companies had really given this enough wait. Well Yahoo! I guess is taking it seriously. Yahoo! just bought Zimbra for a whole lot of money.

We have been using the Zimbra client at my work for a while now and it has been a nice workable solution. Zimbra has been a client of my work for a few years so I have intimate knowledge of how the software works including making skins for the Zimbra web client and doing their Flash based software demo. It’s kinda like having your kid go off to college.

Apple quietly updated their music production software Logic. It is now called Logic Studio and includes the Logic platform as well as Soundtrack 2 and a live component called Mainstage. All this and they dropped the price by half. The whole thing is now $499 (I paid $999 a couple of years ago). I hope they kept all the other components the same. I think there will be a revolt if they get rid of the “Environment” panel.

The bad or good thing about this upgrade is that my old hardware (G4 1.25Ghz bought in 2003) is almost obsolete. It is now the lowest possible machine that can support the new program. I had planned on getting a new computer, but this is the thing that is going to push me over the edge.

I will probable get this when I get my new computer in October.

I wouldn’t be a worth a damn if I didn’t complain about the new Apple ring tone shite.

So you buy a $400 phone that is an mp3 player, pay to download music legally from Apple and they don’t allow you to use your music collection, which you can load on the phone, as ringtones? Huh?

You have to pay them another 99 cents to use the song that you already paid them for, to use it as a ring tone?

Super lame. I’m surprised the crowd didn’t boo Steve Jobs when he said that.

We went to the east coast over the labor day weekend for my brothers wedding. Lots of family. Alanna was coming onto a cold so she was kinda bed ridden for a few days.

I hadn’t spent that much time out on Long Island before. We spent our time on the north fork of the eastern end. It’s really nice, although it seems like every time people gave us direction it was by landmarks that we not there anymore. “Turn right at Applebees” Well if applebees is not there anymore its kinda hard to find something. “It’s on Route 25 you can’t miss it” Unfortunately there are two 25’s. Business 25 and slow ass 2 lane 25.

A good time was had by one and all. I miss my crazy family. They are a bunch of good eggs.