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 [...]
Full Story »Welcoming Opposition
Why?
“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, [...]
Full Story »Coming of age
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 [...]
Full Story »Precious Jewels
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 [...]
Full Story »What’s it all about, Alphi?
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 [...]
Full Story »One More Time…
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 [...]
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