Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. Voltaire, Essay on Tolerance For all its flaws and all its magnificent capabilities, the Internet has given us a powerful forum….one that we all need to learn how to use. Like any tool, it can be used for great good….but it can be used equally well to destroy. Do we believe everything we see on the Internet? I hope not. There’s a LOT of trash out there…and a lot of outdated information that can be misinterpreted as current if we aren’t diligent. The beauty is that we [Click here to see the rest of the story]
Jan 262007
Jan 262007
"We're all running a mile a minute, already," was a statement that I heard frequently when I was a young adult. At the time I just couldn't understand where this kind of thinking was coming from. Now that I'm much older, I've come to realize that this "mile a minute" has been magnified many times. In fact, my own daughter made a telling statement some time back. She said, " We're all on a treadmill and we're running just as fast as we possibly can. We can't slow down because, if we do, we'll get run over. And, we can't stop to help [Click here to see the rest of the story]
Jan 222007
Some of us have been on the internet for well over 10 years. Others are fairly new. This can lead to some pretty amazing differences of opinion when it comes to evaluating the internet and its contributions to the better, more intelligent, more gracious world that was promised at the turn of the century. I would truly love to hear Toffler's opinion today about how well his predictions have been implemented. There was a time when we were led to believe that computers and the internet would be an ecological boon to humanity. They promised to simplify our lives. They promised [Click here to see the rest of the story]
Jan 182007
We live in a great technological information-rich society. But I wonder if we really appreciate what that means? Or, are we just getting swamped with stuff? I, for one, am really glad that we have so many technical tools at our disposal – Tools that, once we learn to use them properly, will open the floodgates to communication the likes of which the world has never seen. I’m seeing it already. I’ve met personally some of the most wonderful people through the internet. Sometimes our contact is only a fleeting encounter. But, sometimes I’ve actually had the pleasure of meeting wonderful people who [Click here to see the rest of the story]
Jan 162007
Progress is made in fits and starts. And that’s perfectly OK. It’s absolutely amazing how technology mirrors and magnifies real life. They both have the same foibles and the same ah-ha moments. Once you catch this concept, everything falls into place. We do not control life – or technology! It goes on whether we do or not! They’re both, certainly, bigger than we are. Our task is simple - troubleshoot, solve problems, make sense out of chaos. We have nothing more than time and our creativity to accomplish this. Then family crises and computer crashes just happen. Like death, they occur [Click here to see the rest of the story]
Jan 072007
I have started this blog twice now….three's the charm (at least that's what I've been told.) Some day, I hope to get the previous posts back up…especially the most recent ones that talk about my daughter's year-end experiences traveling from Albuquerque to Chicago via United Airlines and the one that follows regarding communication abuses that are rampant right now both online and off. For today, though, I'm wrestling with reinstalling the vast majority of my own websites and two shopping carts on two different hosts. It's been an interesting experience. I've learned a LOT in the process. All this activity came about as the result of [Click here to see the rest of the story]
