The Peregrin Falcon

This post is to be an FYI to anyone who sees this blog. If it is in the Plain default form for WordPress it is because the new upgrade from 2.3 trashed my themes and I am still deciding if I am going to leave the WordPress community or not. I have had no luck with help on this because the theme was made before the upgrade. I may just have to break down and code my own PHP on a site that won’t upgrade beyond the capability to show the theme. I am usually calm, cool, and collected, but while I write this I am livid. I have spent over six months getting this blog to look exactly as I wanted it and now not only can I not be apart of Technorati because of a security flaw in 2.3; but I can’t upgrade and keep my theme. Also, now I can’t even keep my theme and not upgrade. I also am going through currently and removing any [tags] you see that are to Technorati due to another WordPress error. I work for a living, not blogging, I can’t spend 30 hours a week tracking down poor code. Anyway, if you do find this blog in disrepair; I am watching, and looking for a solution. I hope the content will outshine the looks.

-thank you,

Peregrin

“CHICAGO — Motorola is banking on a plan to separate its foundering cell phone unit from the rest of the company…” ( By ASHLEY M. HEHER Associated Press 3/27/2008)

In case you haven’t heard, if you own a Motorola phone, there will be some changes to the company that manufactures it. I am not a market analyst or even someone who follows the stock-market more than the occasional check-in with “Mad Money” hosted by Jim Cramer. So, I was very shocked to hear that Motorola is selling the cell-phone division of the company. After some poking around the net I found other stories ranking Motorola’s sales as poor, yet almost all the articles stated what the Wall-Street Journal LiveMint.com said:
“ Motorola ranks third in the world market after Nokia and Samsung, with a 12.3% market share, according to Strategy Analytics, a research company. “
(http://www.livemint.com/2008/02/13232709/Nokia-consolidates–its-lead.html Posted: Wed, Feb 13 2008. 11:52 PM IST )

I don’t know what this will mean for people like me who have owned a Motorola phone for over two years and cannot afford a new phone or a new contract. I would hope that ranking third in the world market share would be enough to sustain a business. If a company can only be profitable in the number one or two spots, what hope is there for competition?

I also uncovered that much of the woes of the phone sales are do to the units not moving in China as well as they used to. As a “free-market” promoter, I have mixed emotions about this news. I want trade and capitalism to move as freely as possible. However, I am not sure that is always happening.

My main concern is a lack of communication to the consumer, like myself. I don’t want to have to buy a new phone because another country doesn’t like the company I purchased from. If Motorola goes under and stops servacing their phones, my next cell phone purchase will have to include a review of the health of the company as well. I don’t think I’m ok with that.

What next, I have to sell my Ford before I pay it off because the rest of the world hates the type of car that is cheap to own here? I know this is generalizing, but I want to get my full frustration across. When did it become a bad thing to only be the world’s third largest anything?

To be continued……….