Today’s post comes to you via my iPhone as I sit in the food court in a rest area on I-80, somewhere just outside Cleveland, Ohio.
Let’s just ponder this for a moment. I am posting a blog entry via a telephone from the side of the interstate. It was not too many years ago that such a statement would not only NOT have been possible, it would have been difficult to imagine.
Heck, it wasn’t that long ago that the phrase ‘posting a blog entry’ didn’t even exist!
Does anyone know the etymology the word ‘blog’?
And here I am, another CMD editor, who was not on time to post today, but who is logging up remotely from high in the Himalayas to join this electronic conversation!
@ Mary
I believe it comes from a combination of and shortening of the phrase “web log”.
I said something quite similar…. 6-years ago.
My wife, daughter and self were hurtling through North Carolina on the way to a week’s vacation with my parents in the mountains. There we were, hundreds of miles from our home in Florida, while my then 11-year old daughter gabbed on her cell phone to her best friend back home.
But that wasn’t everything. We were following directions we had printed from the web, while listening to high quality audio via Compact Discs, knowing we were safe in our car with air bags and anti-lock brakes.
And there us where u think we sometimes miss the real point. It isn’t all this gee whiz technology stuff like my iPhone or laptop, but the mundane and everyday technology that really makes our lives better.
Hey, I remember when computers were the size of refrigerators and had far less computing power than a hand calculator.
@forkboy1965- I couldn’t agree more: “It isn’t all this gee whiz technology stuff like my iPhone or laptop, but the mundane and everyday technology that really makes our lives better.”
What’s that phrase… “the greatest thing since sliced bread”? Heck, ya can’t get much more mundane and everyday than that – but I sure am thankful for the technology of pre-sliced bread!