When I told my friend and neighbor Jenny that I now had a computer she sent me an email inviting me to get on facebook and become a friend. Which I did. Several people from work, when they heard I was on facebook, invited me to be a friend. So I started to learn the protocol. It's only been maybe a week, maybe two, and I've decided that blogging might be more suited to my temperment than facebooking. I wrote entirely too much on facebook. It looks like its meant for brief updates.
While going from one thing to another I found a woman's blog. I liked it. And later I thought, maybe I should do a blog. So here it is. Maybe once blogging fills one niche I'll find facebook satisfactory for another niche. We'll see.
But on the subject of what's available online, I found, thanks to one of my students who had completed his Excel Spreadsheet/Pie Chart project, the street level view of my house. How do they do that, I wanted to know. A friend said, "They have cameras everywhere." I objected. There aren't cameras on my street lights. And if there were they wouldn't provide the 360 degree view available. So I searched. A 360 degree camera mounted on a vehicle was the reasonable answer. Also found some reasonable viewpoints on whether we should feel that our privacy is being invaded. In fact, I think that's how I came across Laura Weinstein's blog, the blog mentioned earlier.
The satellite views of Alaska are interesting.
And now, I'm going to look up the YouTube piece on Billy Bob Thornton being, uh, difficult during an interview. Just heard the interviewer being interviewed himself on NPR. Signing off, the now connected to the www, Valerie
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