As that group of brilliant creative individuals that I like to call my readership knows, I’ve been blogging for several years now. More recently, I’ve made a tentative foray into twitter and even the evil empire known as facebook. Still, I’m not quite a 2.0 man.

I don’t have an iPad 2 or even an iPad 1 (though I will confess to wanting one of those cool toys) and before I ever obtain one of those I’ll have to get into a new computer, one capable of say, supporting a modern browser and running “new twitter”. But my real failing in the 2.0 world is my lack of enthusiasm around the so called “smart-phone” phenomenon. I use a Blackberry at work and it is handy beyond measure. However, I don’t own a smart-phone or any kind of portable telephone device for personal use. Yep, we’ve got a land-line at home.

I’m certain if I tried to use a phone while driving I would crash my car, even using a hands-free device. Speaking of which, am I the only one who thinks people who have animated conversations in grocery stores using their hands-free device are really strange? The other day I heard this woman in the No Frills and she was going on about this and that quite loudly and she was gesturing with her hands. My first thought – she’s just eccentric or perhaps is suffering from an unfortunate illness. That’s because I’m not a 2.0 man. If I were, I would have just thought, “rude person on a Blue Tooth”.

The other thing stopping me from being a 2.0 man is that I don’t like plugging stuff into my ear. Sorry, I just don’t. Those little ear buds – forget it. I do own an iPod – one of those little “Shuffle” ones. It came to us as a gift. Since I don’t plug in, it sat for about a year until I invested in a little speaker deal that allows me to plug the device into the other device and hear music without sticking stuff in my ear.

As you might guess from the music I’m posting around here, I like records. You kids might not have ever seen one of those. Ask Grandpa and you’ll hear all about stuff like “album art”. (for those from my generation, what’s your favourite album cover?….I’m still partial to that photo of Bob Dylan and the late Suze Rotolo on the cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. For you kids out there, Weird Bob wasn’t always as old as he looks today). I even got used to CDs even though they were never the same. One day I’ll get used to music that isn’t stuck to hard formats.

Don’t rush me.