Friday the 13th
Was digging through old passport photos to try to find a suitable one for my resume and was amazed to find old ones from 4 years ago.
1: Circa Mid 2001
2: Early 2002
3: Mid 2002
4: Mid 2004
I've never really cared about my looks till recent years and I sure am grateful for that. The 80kg days and crew cut punk days are long gone and I hope that I will not be revisiting those days anytime soon. In any case, this simple collage took me 1 hour to piece together. Was a good excuse for me to muck around with photoshop, finally. I had wanted to put text and other such things in it but gave up after sifting through the numerous topics in HELP. But I will, at some point get back to it and learn.
Now this female impatience towards technology is truely a phenomenon. Men can hunkerdown and read thick manuals, surf forums, check out help guides just to fix a computer problem, but the majority of us ladies would rather the men to do it for us. But, since the epoch of the blogging revolution, I honestly think women have been forced to grit their teeth and give technology a chance. Simply because, setting up a blog requires some computer know-how.
Prior to setting up her blog, a woman has obviously had to have done a fair amount of reasearch. Starting off with sporadic surfing, progressing on to daily surfing, then honing in on the favorites and finally the setting up of one's own blog. The blog surfing would have made a significant impact on the style, look and feel of her blog. Simple hosting sites like blogspot or community based ones like livejournal and xanga are straight forward and idiot proof. This delights the woman blogger and she feels like a techno whiz having published a couple of posts sucessfully. She tells her friends. She starts to leave a tagboard or a comment tool, so she knows people are reading, that she's not alone, that she's writing not only for herself but an audience.
Blogging begins to become like porn, where she is the star in her own narcissistic show. Traditional blogging tools don't work for her anymore because she's gathered a substantial reader base, and goes in search for harder stuff. So, she starts paying for the site, to become a premium member with special previleges, or start a .com. Basic computer know-how does not suffice and she has to delve into harder more complex methods. She's got to learn the techy stuff that she probably would'nt have bothered doing if she had not started her blog in the first place.
So blogging is good.
Women are now learning computer jargon.
Was digging through old passport photos to try to find a suitable one for my resume and was amazed to find old ones from 4 years ago.
1: Circa Mid 2001
2: Early 2002
3: Mid 2002
4: Mid 2004
I've never really cared about my looks till recent years and I sure am grateful for that. The 80kg days and crew cut punk days are long gone and I hope that I will not be revisiting those days anytime soon. In any case, this simple collage took me 1 hour to piece together. Was a good excuse for me to muck around with photoshop, finally. I had wanted to put text and other such things in it but gave up after sifting through the numerous topics in HELP. But I will, at some point get back to it and learn.
Now this female impatience towards technology is truely a phenomenon. Men can hunkerdown and read thick manuals, surf forums, check out help guides just to fix a computer problem, but the majority of us ladies would rather the men to do it for us. But, since the epoch of the blogging revolution, I honestly think women have been forced to grit their teeth and give technology a chance. Simply because, setting up a blog requires some computer know-how.
Prior to setting up her blog, a woman has obviously had to have done a fair amount of reasearch. Starting off with sporadic surfing, progressing on to daily surfing, then honing in on the favorites and finally the setting up of one's own blog. The blog surfing would have made a significant impact on the style, look and feel of her blog. Simple hosting sites like blogspot or community based ones like livejournal and xanga are straight forward and idiot proof. This delights the woman blogger and she feels like a techno whiz having published a couple of posts sucessfully. She tells her friends. She starts to leave a tagboard or a comment tool, so she knows people are reading, that she's not alone, that she's writing not only for herself but an audience.
Blogging begins to become like porn, where she is the star in her own narcissistic show. Traditional blogging tools don't work for her anymore because she's gathered a substantial reader base, and goes in search for harder stuff. So, she starts paying for the site, to become a premium member with special previleges, or start a .com. Basic computer know-how does not suffice and she has to delve into harder more complex methods. She's got to learn the techy stuff that she probably would'nt have bothered doing if she had not started her blog in the first place.
So blogging is good.
Women are now learning computer jargon.