Technology and Christmas

Saturday's DNR had an article about outsourcing your Christmas cards. Red Stamp is an online service that will take care of your correspondence needs. I think this is sad. Technology is great for many things, and turning over certain responsibilities to others makes good economic sense; however, the purpose of a personal correspondence is -- well-- personal. It would break my heart if my mother had someone else send me a card in her name.

Another tech article related to the Christmas season was that the Wii is the hot item for the year. I have played with my son's and it was fun. I hope this is a sign that parents are helping their children be more active even when playing video games. It is obvious that technology gifts are the trend for the year as many of the Black Friday specials were TVs, DVD players, MP3 players and digital picture frames. It makes me wonder what will the techno gifts be 10 years from now.

Another move into technology

I bought my first iPod! I purchased a video nano in green and I am learning about how to use it by loading music from my own CDs to start with. The next move will be to set up podcasts that I would like to listen to when I have time. I have found one on SmartBoards to subscribe to, and of course I will subscribe to Tony Dungy's podcast

The only problem I have so far is my cat likes to try and chew the cable and ear buds.