Wednesday, June 11, 2008
See what happens when you grow up with computers...
You get to enjoy your nights at events like your friend's "Host a Murder" party (at least I think that's what they're called) as a 60's hippie girl, while your mother labours over the same Learning 2.0 Lesson she tried to complete last night. So daughter gets to look serene while mother stays home getting grumpier by the minute. (Excuse me but in the fairytale, wasn't it the daughter who was the Cinderella character??) Well, maybe I should stop there, because I'm thinking this time the upload is going to work. (Well, it had better - this being grumpy business is just too exhausting for words, which I'm now officially out of!) So let's give it a whirl, shall we?...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
If you can read this, I've finally managed to Flickr!!
Are these people laughing at me? Why am I even thinking this? Because a) they're related to me and might feel free to do so, and b) having given themselves permission to gaffaw at my expense, these two (highly computer savvy) rellies might not believe how long it's taken me to complete this seemingly innocuous exercise - i.e upload an image to my blog.
Except wait!! I sourced this picture from my computer - slap on the wrist! Must now go and attempt to first get this picture onto Flickr, and then onto my blog, or at the very least get a picture (any picture!) off Flickr and onto this blog. OMG!! How many more hours is that going to take? You think I'm kidding, don't you? You think I haven't already tried - like - well I've lost count of how many times! Oh stop snickering and leave me to wrestle some more with my Flickr account. I WILL DO THIS!!
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Who'd have thought!?
I never thought I'd see the day I'd be blogging - but there you go!
Just the other day I was talking to (possibly) my youngest colleague about my earliest computer experiences. It was 1980 and I had just arrived in Sydney, and I was friends with a sound engineer who had worked with a Fairlight Computer - at that time not long designed by another Sydney sound engineer if I remember correctly (worth googling?), and my friend had some experience of/ liked mucking around with computers (what we'd call a geek today). I, on the other hand, was barely aware of them.
He described a word processor to me, how you could type onto it and what you had typed appeared on a screen, then you could amend/ edit your work, deleting and moving stuff around until you were happy with it and ready to print it out. I was blown away - sounded fantastic! Then when I was checking vacancies in the paper, I started to notice ads for word processors - wow - it really was happening - now!
Fast forward a couple of years when I was working at UNSW Library, and I found myself thrown in the deep end with the task of typing the minutes of a meeting - on a word processor. Next it was searching on ABN - but with lots of warnings about doing so very carefully - the cost you know, very expensive for each search, so you had to check your spelling etc.
And now here I am blogging. It's a long road from the first word processors to Web 2.0, n'est-ce pas?
Just the other day I was talking to (possibly) my youngest colleague about my earliest computer experiences. It was 1980 and I had just arrived in Sydney, and I was friends with a sound engineer who had worked with a Fairlight Computer - at that time not long designed by another Sydney sound engineer if I remember correctly (worth googling?), and my friend had some experience of/ liked mucking around with computers (what we'd call a geek today). I, on the other hand, was barely aware of them.
He described a word processor to me, how you could type onto it and what you had typed appeared on a screen, then you could amend/ edit your work, deleting and moving stuff around until you were happy with it and ready to print it out. I was blown away - sounded fantastic! Then when I was checking vacancies in the paper, I started to notice ads for word processors - wow - it really was happening - now!
Fast forward a couple of years when I was working at UNSW Library, and I found myself thrown in the deep end with the task of typing the minutes of a meeting - on a word processor. Next it was searching on ABN - but with lots of warnings about doing so very carefully - the cost you know, very expensive for each search, so you had to check your spelling etc.
And now here I am blogging. It's a long road from the first word processors to Web 2.0, n'est-ce pas?
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