Google is buying GrandCentral.com -- a company that came up with the idea of giving you a single phone number that you can use to get all your calls -- home or office or cell -- whatever.

Everyday Google buys a company. I cannot think of any other company that had a more voracious appetite. I am not sure Google will be left with any companies to buy. Or maybe it will because its buying frenzy is certainly creating entrepreneurial frenzy in turn.

Nowhere than in in software is it truer that every change is for the worse.

I launched Parallels Desktop just to run some Windows program like I generally do every few days. This time it came up with a message that I should upgrade as a newer version is available. I thought for a second as my inner anti-tech angel warned me against it. However, I decided to go ahead. What harm could it possibly do?

After a few minutes it was installed. I tried to launch XP virtual machine and it failed with a fatal error message -- "Virtual Bridge not found. Is it running?" What the hell do I know? You tell me it is running or not! It won't work anymore. As usual, I switched to Google and searched for the error message. The only place I found it was in Parallels user forums. I duly clicked on the link only to be notified that the "forums are down for maintenance."

Nothing succeeds as planned.

I have sort of gotten used to the buggy, sluggish Aperture to get my photography work flow going. I was just reading this story about how Leopard will impact Aperture and all I did was shuddered. I didn't want a change -- even for the better -- because there is no such thing -- at least not in software -- and at least not often. Change is for the worse. More stuff gets added to the software that you don't want and only makes apps buggier and harder to use.

Boy, do I sound like one or my clients!