By Way of Introduction

This inclination to create a blog is the result of an impromptu soul searching on the eve of my 63rd birthday. I somehow managed to suppress that nagging feeling of not being too ICT literate/savvy to handle this new undertaking. But it was also one of the rare occasions where I succumb to that level of “throwing caution to the winds” and in the same breath say “…what the heck! people who are 40 years my junior are doing it and so can I…” Thus psychologically fortified, my first step into the cyber-world took its flight. And….the rest as they say is history.

But let me reflect a fraction on this related historical antecedent. My dabbling with computer is only a recent awakening, the result of my youngest daughter’s persistent coercions to be sure, I must unashamedly confess. Being a computer graduate, she cannot fathom why her father mentor the savior of her and her siblings not too few misadventure, is intimidated by the computer of all things!

To the best of my recollection, the organization I worked for went on a computerization exercise in the early 1990s. I kept on hedging until I was up against the wall and a new gleaming desktop became part of my table implement in 1999. Even then it was just a decorative piece until my daughter came avisiting and showed me how easy and harmless it is to use a computer. How she demonstrated it is a secret between the two of us!

I reproduced my first endevour below;

" What Shall I Do? That seems to be the all consuming question at the moment for me. It is something that I have to resolve on my own. That I shall seek no assistance from others is definite because of my inclination not to be dependent on others. That being the case, I will go through the classic "muddling through" process as that is the only option left.

First and foremost I will have to address the psychological misconception about computer being fergile and will sort of bust up when I make a wrong entry and touch the wrong whatever it is that can be click with the mouse without the head!"

I had that printed and added in a hand written comment as follows:


" Not bad for muddling through. My first effort. Big deal? Oh Yes!Yes! Yes!

(my signature)

16 Dec 1999

N.B.

Only 15 days to the next millennium I took this big step to "recomputer" myself. Hurrah!!!

That in the nutshell is how I make the quantum leap into the 21st Century. I am making this inaugral posting on my birthday today! Happy blogging to me!!!