Journal : OpenRoadWorks

In 1995, I started using email. In my first college days, my friend Virge anointed me with a playful email handle - toddity. She never told me that your email address was somewhat permanent, and I spent the rest of my university days with an username that amused most who got a message from good, old Eudora. At that time, I used Netscape as my web browser. Fast forward almost 15 years. I moved on first to Internet Explorer (Microsoft had a monopolistic hand in it), and then to Firefox from which I am penning this blog entry. Somewhere along the way, Netscape was acquired by AOL and sent down the river on a slow obsolescence. Until next week, when Netscape will end up on the scrap heap with Prodigy, Compuserve, and Excite@Home. How much the internet has changed. I can wax poetically on blogs and social networks, but I can also remember messageboards, usenets, IM, forums, web 1.0, HTML, and the world wide web when www. was a foreign concept. The concept is still the same - connec...

Happy New Year! (a poem to Wendy) As January ends, outside is windy I'm leaving the office, and blog is empty For this year's entries, this is the first - Of all the droughts, this might be worst Of sparse words and spells of creativity. Much as there is to praise, I can't complain Of the life that now occupies my brain In these winter days - and nights often too - When work, life, and love make strange brew. Happy birthday to my dad, Lest I forget this as well As I pack my things at hand And reflect for trifle spell. Enough of this, I shall resolve To write more for hopes absolve The state I'm in - all work and no play - Dull boy I become is what some say. A few thoughts, these, I make as mark As a solemn pause to act as lark, For this entry portends what must come - Poetry and story should be in great sum!