Haven't been as happy with the lj iPhone app and generally most of my updates have been short and on the go so to Facebook iPhone they go. Or BlackBerry social which handles my Facebook and Twitter.

But I miss this place, really.

I miss the way I felt like when I set up security features, they'd STAY that way. Or rather, I had gotten to where I forgot what it meant to have to worry about that.

It was a simple equation. We generated content deliberately, others came looking for it. Facebook's model (where you generate content accidentally or as a byproduct of other actions, and others try to figure out how to shut those parts up without losing the parts you generate deliberately) irritates me some days. But what can I say, their interface still pleases me more.

Anyhow, had a birthday recently. Beginning to feel a bit older yeah. Checking out my eyes, (still good, no real change from two years ago), having to check out my cholesterol ongoing, occasional other small health worries. Eh, I'm getting older. :)

I considered doing a "presents or paddy whacks" sort of birthday meme. An invitation to comment to a post where replies are screened and IPs are not logged. An opportunity to tell me (anonymously or not) something you've always wanted to tell me whether good or bad (your butt does look fat in those jeans/your butt looks HOT in those cargos) or to tell me you're in on some secret I'm not keeping nearly as well as I think I am. (dude, EVERY OTHER history nerd uses 1066 as a PIN, stop it). ---OR--- to ask a question, any question, in public or private, for reply either in public or private. (obviously anonymous questions wishing private reply may not be achievable). ---or--- both if ya want. ;)

Sound interesting? Let me know, and I'll hook up my post-birthday meme thinger. :)

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Seen a great number of Bixi bikes around this weekend.

A fair number of those were places I was very surprised to see Bixi bikes: Ashbridges, Centre Island.

For those unaware, Bixi's model is point-to-point travel. You pay a fee for borrowing rights ($5 for 24 hours), and you can borrow from any rack and return to any rack. Rides less than 30 minutes carry no surcharge. Rides more than 30 minutes cost an increasing amount, capping out at $8/half-hour, which is reached after 90 minutes.

So quite clearly, taking one of these for a pleasure trip, a day at the beach, or similar, is going to become expensive. There are places where pleasure rentals are much cheaper (Centre Island has places that rent bikes for $7/hour, for example)

Now I realize I'm having one of my misanthropic moments, but part of me dreads Toronto is about to see some sort of backlash of people that stopped reading the fee chart at "$5 for 24 hours" and don't understand why they now owe forty bucks for their bicycle jaunt.

I mean possibly these folks had figured they'd spend only an 90 minutes or so at the beach and would for the premium price of about $20, only 25% over the competition at that point, save themselves the hassle of lineups at the bike rental shops. I guess there are scenarios where it makes sense, but there's a part of me that thinks I'm giving out too much credit. :(

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