Thursday, September 13, 2007
ten blogs?!
What if there aren't ten blogs that I'm interested in? Most of the blogs I've encountered seem a bit too self-centered fro my taste (kind of like my finallyex-husband ;D), focussing on the munutia of somebody else's life - their current mood, what music they're listening to, etc. I know there's got to be something out there that won't be a waste of time, but the many people I know and/or admire simply have other things to do.
technology interest this week
I'm not an enemy of technology, but it's not my best buddy, either. I belong to several forums, one of which is rather large and active. For some reason, after all these years, MyWay (my email account has decided that this is a dirty nest of spammers, so I havent received any postings for about a month. I pinged the forum and got a couple of answers, then I emailed the webmistress who told me that my ISP was the problem. I've emailed MyWay twice now, at two different help addresses. I've gotten a form letter about spammers from one address, and a whole lot of silence from the other. Any suggestions?
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Here we go...
Wellywellywell now (extra points to whoever can identify that quote), here I am, much to my surprise, starting a blog.
This whole project looks like I can learn a few new things in a fairly painless manner, although I tend to have a different vocabulary than the tutorial has been using so far, and that seems to be the "most difficult thing" for me, rather than the 71/2 choices I was given.
I do not see every new project I try as an "obstacle"; that smacks of the Victorian/Edwardian (Darwinian?)worldview "Let's sail forth from England and conquer those poor savages in the Ottoman Empire!" Indeed, if I do look at a project where I don't know how to get where I want to go, I see it more as a puzzle to be solve, or the same way I see a knot in embroidery thread that needs untangling. I can see what needs to be done first, but that doesn't guarantee that the circumstances for the problem/project will be the same when I have taken those first steps. So the learning contract is kind of a toughie for me as it stands. I know that my goal is to learn all kinds of new things, but other than following the tutorial and doing the 23 things, I don't have enough knowledge to map my course at the moment.
This whole project looks like I can learn a few new things in a fairly painless manner, although I tend to have a different vocabulary than the tutorial has been using so far, and that seems to be the "most difficult thing" for me, rather than the 71/2 choices I was given.
I do not see every new project I try as an "obstacle"; that smacks of the Victorian/Edwardian (Darwinian?)worldview "Let's sail forth from England and conquer those poor savages in the Ottoman Empire!" Indeed, if I do look at a project where I don't know how to get where I want to go, I see it more as a puzzle to be solve, or the same way I see a knot in embroidery thread that needs untangling. I can see what needs to be done first, but that doesn't guarantee that the circumstances for the problem/project will be the same when I have taken those first steps. So the learning contract is kind of a toughie for me as it stands. I know that my goal is to learn all kinds of new things, but other than following the tutorial and doing the 23 things, I don't have enough knowledge to map my course at the moment.
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