thoughts on blogging

Had to wait for "inspiration", so as to not embarrass myself, in case this ends up in the hands of an anthropologist, centuries from now, trying to discover clues to what our civilization was like. We may be in a sad state if we do better at electronic communication than face-to-face. I know that I rarely see my neighbors or have any communication with them. Most of us don't engage in back porch or fence-post discussions anymore. And in a technical writing class I took at this university, I was seated not more than 6 feet from the professor's desk - as were the other members of the class - and we were emailing documents back and forth. While this was much more efficient and environmentally-friendly than paper documents, red-pencilling, and rewrites, it had a somewhat impersonal ring to it, but I did like it, as it was really "cool" - unless the power went out, which it , fortunately, didn't.