Catching up with my neice

February 11th, 2007

I’m finally at that age when my 12 year old niece is overtaking me technically. Well not just yet, for one thing I own more stuff than her. However, her generation is the first one growing up with pervasive Internet access and on-line social contact. For me it’s difficult to remember not having a VCR or a microwave. She’ll be amazed to hear we didn’t always have cell phones and email.
So in an attempt to claw back a little credibility with her – and for a few other reasons – I’m launching a blog and finally sharing all that digital booty I have stored on my macintosh. It will be interesting to see if this gets read by anyone aside from my family. I’m hoping to do a couple of things

• Keep track of all the movies and books I go through and what I thought of them at the time – kind of a digital memory aid. Mostly books since I read so many of the damn things
• Comment on some the vast volume of news and articles I go through every day
• Have somewhere to spout off about topics of interest, mostly about privacy, liberty, politics etc.

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