Wow. I mean, really, how dense ARE people?

I’m not sure if this was the origin point, but Coop’s Corner on C-Net News today reported that in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee authored the paper Information Management: A proposal: “On March 13 of that year, he submitted a plan to management on how to better monitor the flow of research at the labs.” For some, this is considered to be the beginning of the idea for the World Wide Web.

However, the intent of his paper was more about managing, centralizing and controlling information  than about making the web commercial, so the World Wide Web as we know it was not “born” on that day. In even the most liberal terms you could barely say it was CONCEIVED on that day… and the day of your conception is not your birthday.

It was not until several years later that an operating web browser (Mosaic) existed. Without a browser, there was no web. So, officially the “Public” World Wide Web came into existence, or was “born”, sometime around 1993.

Yet, there are numerous posts on boards and blogs around the online universe insisting that TODAY IS THE INTERNET’S BIRTHDAY!

Get a grip, people. Learn some history. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, here it is. My first post using a Mac.

How the heck did I get a Mac? Well, thanks to a very old friend (not his age, he’s younger than I am – just that I have known him since a long time ago although we were out of touch for 10+ years in the middle), I was able to pay in installments to purchase his used Mac Mini. He was very generous to allow me to do that, and the ‘Mini was inexpensive enough to make it worth a little temporary suffering (although at this point, I do have a twinge of regret as I know NOW what I did not know when I agreed to buy it – I need a better lens for my camera which is going to cost big $$$). Anyway, Mike, I really and truly appreciate it and thank you very much, I doubt we ever would have owned one of these if not for you.

Now, many of you have gathered the impression that I loathe Macs. I really don’t. I simply loathe Mac hype and the lies that get spread about them by the brainwashed Mac masses, or Macolytes as I have decided they should be called. They say things like Macs don’t crash, and “it just works” and sound more like a Mac commercial and marketing campaign than an actual user. Read the rest of this entry »

Seriously, I am going to bug you until you do.

Go to Pownce.com and sign up for an account. Then you can come and find me as a friend. Or send me a message with your email (see contact page) and I will invite you to Pownce.

My Pownce page is here, but unless you are one of my Pownce friends, you can’t see much of anything.

I am sure you are saying WTF is Pownce… so I’ll tell you. Pownce is like a bunch of different web things rolled into one. It is a little bit of Facebook, a little bit of message board, a little bit of blog, and a little bit of instant messenger. It lets you post your pictures, videos, links or whatever to show them to your friends, or just a small group of friends, or everyone in the world. It doesn’t matter what it is. You post something on Pownce, direct it to who you want it to go to or to the whole world, and they can see it, download it, look at it, comment on it, rate it and talk about it with everyone else who can see it.

Come on people, you should know I am not a faddy kind of person, I don’t pull out every little thing going and jump on board. For example, I was dragged onto Facebook kicking and screaming, and I have left it as soon as it started to get crazy popular.

Pownce is a really good way to be able to keep in touch and share pics, media and links with anyone you want to share them with. Go, sign up!