'The Internet is over'
says Prince in 2010

Obviously, I'm as shocked as everyone else to learn that the game is up for online communication and commerce. I'd expected the system to be more stable and to have a good few years in it yet. However, who am I to question a pop idol from the 1980s? Not hardly nobody, that's who.

In fact, my website used to live here. For years it seemed more solid than quite hard trees and was, in many ways, metaphorical granite.

However, what's relevant today may be history tomorrow and irrelevant twaddle the day after that. From then on it's pretty much downhill.

These days we want our information so current that people start off reading it with excitement, laughing at our up-to-the-minute innovative thought, only to delete the same message contemptuously even as they finish.

In fact, I'm tired of the first paragraph of this article already and may delete it. Prince is a great entertainer and oddball in a long tradition of weird types in the field of music but (a) his belief that nobody is going to download his material would lack credibility to even a child nerd, and (b) this whole topic is getting really old now.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be: it used to be cheese.

Cheese

Let's leave this topic alone and move on to the next before we get bogged down and committed to endlessly repeated analysis of it. All we really need is for someone to Twitter-textually-tweet us on Face-blog-book before the next breath enters our nostrils.