Quote du Jour: ""Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schulz
I'm sick, and I hate being sick. I have too many things to do to be nursing a cold or whatever this bug is I've got. It's been going around work, but in the other part of the building from where I work. I've been carefully avoiding going to that part of the building. I've been taking Echinacea and vitamin C. I've been resisting it since before Christmas, but it's finally caught up with me.
I had an annoying tickle type cough all day Friday, and by the time I went to bed, it was your garden variety full blown cough. Yesterday I woke up with a stuffed nose, aches and pains, and of course the cough. I know that's more information than you wished I'd shared with you, but at least you can't catch my cold from reading my Blog. Did I say, I hate being sick?
I'm just going to do a genuine ramble here, but after all that's what it says in the header isn't it? I saw that BurningBird mentioned my Blog in her Blog. And gave me a link! Thanks for the Blogpliments! We love Blogpliments! ::Taking a bow::
I love this whole Blog culture. It reminds me of the olden days - way back in 1995 <g> when I first had access to the web. I've had internet access through Prodigy since 1988, migrated over to Genie along with my online friends, then I had AOL for awhile. I got it for free because, I was working with one of their content providers - On Computers radio. At the time AOL didn't provide web space - not much of a browser either, so I signed on with a local ISP and built a home on the web.
One of the things I really enjoyed about surfing the web in the good old days <g> before the commercial sites seemed to take over, was all the personal sites people put up. They weren't slick. They often had ugly backgrounds (my own site included ::shudder::). And often the content was nothing more than links to other sites. But we were pioneers. Moonwalkers in cyberspace. Voyagers on a strange journey.
We came together and formed communities much like the Bloggers are doing today. We communicated. We exchanged ideas and we learned more about other cultures than we could ever learn in a life time off line. Bloggers are renewing that sense of community and I rejoice in it. Bloggers of the World Unite! (have to check Blogstickers and see if that's been taken)
Hey if you are seriously into Googlewhacking - check this out. It's a neat little form called Auto-Whack that checks to see if the word is in the dictionary before sending it to Google. You also get a score if you get a googlewhack ... With a Nick Nack Googlewhack give a dog a bone, this old man came rolling home (see web site for an explanation of why I'm singing this song <g> -- Still googlewhack-impaired in NJ.
Posted by Cyberkat at February 3, 2002 11:32 AM | TrackBack