How to leave a name on your comments
Some people have been unaware of how to sign a comment with your name and have been attracting more attention than they should by posting comments as "anonymous". So if you look at the image to the left you will see that after one has clicked on the radio button "Name/URL" a box drops down. Put your name in this box and you have a comment that has your name on it. Try it and stop annoying those who think that all comments should be signed. Personally I don't care just keep the comments coming in! To make the image larger just click on it.It will be interesting to see just how many puffed out chests there will be at Council tomorrow evening and who gets to announce the kickoff for the public fundraising campaign for the new Community Centre. As Bob "I raised a pile of money for the Jack Heenan Arena" Spooner told me, he already has pledges from some community groups - keep 'em coming Bob you can do it better than anybody else!
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In my day to day work I have the opportunity to observe all ages and how they react and act in various situations. As for technological matters, I see most adults approach it with caution and if they do something, they do it hesitatingly, usually reacting with some level of surprise at the result. School aged kids, and up to early adulthood approach it with that glint in their eyes that says "oh neat - something to play with" and proceed to launch an 'offensive strike' upon the challenge before them, anxious to see what it will do, and perhaps not do.
I guess the same goes for these computer related matters, including 'google', 'blogger', 'e-mail', 'facebook', 'apps' and all those other 'things' that appear so 'breakable'. The biggest leap for me came when my son told me "go ahead, do what you want - you can't break the internet" and so I did.
Yet, to keep up with, and maybe even understand to some small degree, what seems a daily expansion of ideas in computerland, I just can't get a solid handle on any of them. There appears to be no single source of guidance on the big picture, just little snippets here and there for specific situations. Maybe we still have to rely on the great-great-great-grandmother of the information highway - the library - to get some help on how to handle the mercurial offspring. Whoever said books were a thing of the past certainly had to be under 50 and oblivious to today's pace of technological evolution.
I agree completely. Anonymous comments are really annoying!
The library is everywhere, Manfred.
Yes, young people take to tech like children to toys. That was the case when I went to Loyalist College of Applied Arts & Technology and saw a special air-conditioned room with a huge computer in it. So I signed up for data processing. The class was made up of 20 business students and one poet from Comunications Arts.
Most of my peers and colleagues in the 60s & 70s, who quickly embraced technology grew up to become fuddy-duddies. Sadly, people grow up after they leave school.
Once upon a time they were verbs, now they are nouns, immovable as a rock-noun in a river with verbs constantly passing them by.
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