Old Dog - New Tricks

I don't know about you, but I like things to be their normal comfortable selves. I've been using this blogging site now for several years and it has a certain look and a certain feel that I like. I've gotten used to it. We're old friends - we know each other well. And now... now... they have gone and changed the user interface!! It looks different, paler and blander. It feels different, commands are in different places. It's just different. And I don't like it.

I could resist it... I could go back to the old look... for as long as it will be around. I could kick and scream and send nasty emails to the developers and say "Why? Why muck with something that looks perfectly fine and isn't broken??" Sigh... I've done that in the past... when Google Mail changed its look... of course it did nothing. All of my resistance and kicking and screaming did nothing. And now I'm using the new Gmail look and I can live with it. Partly because various people have created various plug-ins for my browser that allow me to claw back some of the features that I liked so much. I like colours... bland and pale colours don't do much for me. I like to have rich colours so that I can recognize things quickly.

Maybe the blogging interface will get some plug-ins soon... that will allow me to keep some of the features that I like. Or maybe not. The world changes... and we either change with it... or we stagnate I guess. I resisted smartphones for the longest time, not wanting to become one of "those people" who were forever checking their email at dinner and in their cars. But I eventually capitulated and here I am - not quite one of "those people" but... I see the benefit of the smartphone.

I suppose it's really how I view the change... is it a "good" thing or a "bad" thing... if it's a good thing (at least in my eyes), I usually embrace it. If it's a bad thing, I fend it off. But what I'm finding is that good and bad are quite relative. I generally see all change as bad, at least initially - later I might change my story - but in the moment... it seems bad... and I resist it. Perhaps it is to alter the way that I see something... it's not good or bad... it just is....