My young friend, Alan Kegley, sent me this electronic Easter greeting card that I thought I'd share with the rest of you as an excuse to wish you all a Happy Easter. Hope your day and your celebration are joyous family occasions. And to Alan, let me say «thanks» publicly, and I hope you have a happy Easter too.
The Flickr Blog reported on Sunday that Flickr had been acquired by Yahoo. This phenomenally successful photo storage service promises its users that rather than being transformed by Yahoo it will instead «Flickrize» Yahoo. That, I think, remains to be seen. But no one can begrudge an upstart company capitalizing on its success, and it is often true that the infusion of capital makes things possible that limited capital would otherwise have prevented. I am just hopeful that the good things that come from this acquisition outweigh the bad.
Except for the so-called dead languages, like Latin for instance, any continuously-spoken language is a living thing, evolving constantly because people use it in creative and non-standard ways. Language purists decry the dumbing-down or contamination of the language by the common man, while the common man, because of his superior numbers, always wins out in the end, leaving the purists to bemoan their view that the world is going to hell in a hand basket. So words that come into common usage eventually make their way into the «official» books that define the language, the dictionaries, and thus the language grows and changes.
This morning, Debra Anderson who is Alan Kegley's teacher at Lenoir City High School, posted a very nice and complimentary comment to this weblog that has literally shamed me into getting my act in gear and making this post. She said:
This article in Wired does a nice job of catching you up on the state of Wikies, and in particular with Wikipedia. If you haven't yet become familiar with that amazing service, then I recommend you correct that deficiency immediately.
Tivo, the innovation that permits one to time-shift television shows to a more appropriate moment when you have the time to watch them, has, for me, come to the calendar.
On Wednesday, March 2, our company held its annual All-Employee Meeting, with the theme «Catch the Wave of Success,» at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium. Intended to celebrate the achievements of 2004 and inspire us to reach even greater heights in 2005, the event was a big deal and was broadcast by satellite to three other cities in the East Region. All the executives of the company, which is headquartered in Chicago, came down for the meeting.
Good morning, everyone. It's been a long time since I've posted anything here, so again I must begin with an apology to those of you who check this site periodically to see what, if anything, I've had to say. I don't want to have you give up on me for not having added any content.
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