Through the video monitor...

Greetings and Bienvenue Readers, Followers and True Believers...

Finally getting past my computer crash and health issues to create this journal of my trek through the wonders of technology and academia. I hope that I, at least, make it somewhat entertaining for you. On to the meat and potatoes of the piece, eh?

Reading the designated pieces about hardware and software reminded me of my introductory computer course back in undergrad. It was a pleasant memory. The CPU, ALU, ASCII code and binary felt like old friends coming to greet me. However, the pieces about scanners and optical character recognition (OCR) made me wonder about how wonderful our own brains are designed that we can discern each character on a page as it is  and not a whole image like OCR.  It also brought home the lectures in LIS 2000 about the problems of provenance in digitization and how much we lose with it, while we preserve at least the most basic aspects of the information in the documents undergoing the process.

My Jing video is about an online audio drama service I use for entertainment and distraction.  It's called Darker Projects.

http://screencast.com/t/N3n1zD1MZ


This Flickr visual will give you taste of what you will find there.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dionne53/?saved=1


While I would love to stay and see if you made it back to the light, as Frost said: "...miles to go before I sleep..."
So, until next time...