The world still seems pretty round to me...

That is to say that this whole technology thing is a bit intimidating still. It is amazing that I can spend so much time on the internet, or at least log onto to the internet many times in the course of a day and still be so unaware of the diverse opportunities that the web represents. So much of what is available on the web, lay dormant to the average web surfer. Getting turned on to new websites is tricky business. Ironically, I find that tips about how to better surf the web most often come to me from printed media, like magazines and newspapers. If anyone has some tips about how to find good websites, I'd love it. Anyway, the point is that this course is opening my eyes to many resources I did not even know existed. It is crazy how easy it is, relatively, to start a blog, and use resources like flickr and del.icio.us to make things look cool. And we all know that looking cool is very important. Let's hope I can manage to look cool to the folks who are handing out grades in this class by December.

Thanks You's all around

I would like to thank Dave Emke for expressing the consternation we are all feeling regarding some of the work done in this program..in a public forum it's nice to have support for the craziness that sometimes is the Cortland MAT in English...That being said the things I have already learned (and there is clearly more to come...) in 506 have changed my whole perception of the Web...I think an intensive, structured. and well-supported system like a college course is precisely what some of us (like me!) are gonna need to get the ball really rolling with regard to computers.

My very first blog entry is dedicated to my stepfather who loved chatrooms way back in the early nineties when loving chatrooms was not yet creepy. The same man who set me up with my very first e-mail address with the dreaded AOL, which I still have (sort of). He was my own personal internet pioneer and when he sees where I have risen to he will look on my fledgling blog with a great sense of pride and satisfaction. Yet another job well done. Let's hope (pray?) that I have the courage to produce something he will truly be proud of.

Joe and the Giant Computer

Here 'tis.