The concept of blogging is one that I am not familiar with. Having never had a blog and only joining the likes of Facebook when "poked" by friends, it is something I am finding difficult to grasp.
Its seems to me like having a diary that everyone reads! This is alien for me, as a child I had a diary briefly, for the two weeks after receiving it as a present and would hide it.
The fact that it came with a lock and key indicated that these thoughts should be kept secret and I feel this is one of the reasons I am having difficulty posting.
So please forgive the random posts and thoughts and I can only hope that by the end of the year my mindset will be more open.
Here's hoping !!!
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Saturday 15 November 2008
MacBook Pro vs Windows based Computers
Having never used a Mac , the IOCT allow students to borrow a Mac and I decided to give the Mac a try.
I have had the laptop for nearly a week and after a call to my ISP regarding setting up the wireless access, it’s been an experience.
In my opinion the Mac is very good for surfing the web as its very quick but have not found the "magical Mac" feeling.
Its navigation is laborious - you have to navigate the mouse from the right bottom corner - if using scroll bar - clear across the screen to the top left.
I am used to windows and feel that I will stick with them as I know all the shortcut keys etc and feel that the Mac would constitute too much unlearning to relearn !!
Thanks IOCT for the trial though !!
I have had the laptop for nearly a week and after a call to my ISP regarding setting up the wireless access, it’s been an experience.
In my opinion the Mac is very good for surfing the web as its very quick but have not found the "magical Mac" feeling.
Its navigation is laborious - you have to navigate the mouse from the right bottom corner - if using scroll bar - clear across the screen to the top left.
I am used to windows and feel that I will stick with them as I know all the shortcut keys etc and feel that the Mac would constitute too much unlearning to relearn !!
Thanks IOCT for the trial though !!
Although I have always supported any conflict that has happened in my lifetime, I feel it is poignant to remember those that have felt the same but have had the courage to undertake the atrocities of any war that has occurred.
“I am making this statement as an act of willful defiance of military authority because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that the war upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation has now become a war of aggression and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them and that had this been done the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops and I can no longer be a party to prolonging these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
On behalf of those who are suffering now, I make this protest against the deception which is being practised upon them; also I believe it may help to destroy the callous complacency with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share and which they have not enough imagination to realise.”
Lt. Siegfried Sassoon.
3rd Batt: Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
July, 1917.
I will today, and every day salute those who have the courage to put their life on the line for my liberty and rebel against those who believe that not every man, woman , child or animal is equal.
“I am making this statement as an act of willful defiance of military authority because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that the war upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation has now become a war of aggression and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them and that had this been done the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops and I can no longer be a party to prolonging these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
On behalf of those who are suffering now, I make this protest against the deception which is being practised upon them; also I believe it may help to destroy the callous complacency with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share and which they have not enough imagination to realise.”
Lt. Siegfried Sassoon.
3rd Batt: Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
July, 1917.
I will today, and every day salute those who have the courage to put their life on the line for my liberty and rebel against those who believe that not every man, woman , child or animal is equal.
Monday 10 November 2008
Wordle
Just had a play with wordle and posted this blog in to create a text cloud - pretty ingenious !!
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