Blogging Funk

I’ve been in a bit of a funk lately. I don’t know what it is but I’m a bit tired of the internet and keeping up with my Bloglines feeds. Maybe a need a vacation. Maybe I’ve been spending so much time on the company website that I’m burned out when I get home and just want to veg out.

I’ve been thinking about good products that have gone bad. One product that comes to mind is MusicMatch Jukebox. MM used to be my mp3 player of choice when that’s all it tried to be. It was an excellent player which easily organized my mp3s. It included an easy to use encoder and was easy enough for anyone to use. But then those in charge decided they needed to jump on the music store bandwagon and the product went to pot. It’s a bad sign when nag screens begin popping up even though I had already purchased a lifetime of upgrades. Then MM started hogging system resources. It tried to be everything to everyone and it ended up becoming this huge bloated piece of junk.

I feel the same way about Microsoft Internet Explorer and I’m starting to feel the same way about Outlook. Internet Explorer now feels like an abandoned product while Outlook is starting to hog resources and thinks it’s a CRM solution.

Thank goodness for products Firefox.