Monday, January 28, 2008
Wading Through The Web
The new FirstAlert Weather Web-Page is up and running! It is easy to use. Just click the pic and you go there. For example, if you really need to know about the weather team, click there and go there. You can learn about Busby's multiple personalities. Grigsby's southern roots. Teachman's dog. My lack of accomplishments. Of course, you can also find live radar, the most accurate and up-to-date forecast around, any severe weather alerts and so many other great features. You can also customize the site to be most useful to you. It's all about YOU! YOU! YOU!
Now, onto ME! ME! ME!
I have a confession to make. I was a bit apprehensive about the new stuff. I am not much of a modern tech person. If this was the 1800s, I could be one those Luddites. They were a bunch of guys who didn't much care for the Industrial Revolution or, from the pictures, dental hygiene. They tended to take their distrust of progress too far, at times. For example, they got to some of the mechanized looms and smashed them to smithereens. (Now, there's a word you don't see much these days. Perfect for a Linguistic Luddite.) Up north we had Mechanized Loons but there was a serious fine for damaging them.
As is the case in plenty of households, I get pushed into the 20th and, now 21st, century--against my will--by the kids. Back when our oldest was about six, he came home from school convinced that everyone else in the world had a computer. I resisted. He persisted. I resisted. He enlisted...the help of his little brother and sister and, most importantly, his mom. So, I desisted. Thanks to that little computer, which was outdated by the time we got the box open, the kids travelled the Oregon Trail...learned typing from Mavis Beacon...built things in LegoLand...and explored many other cyber sites. Personally, I have to admit I did enjoy Disney's Kitchen where you could create web-tastic recipes with the help of Minnie and Mickey. Of course, the most fun in that kitchen was doing things you'd never do in a real kitchen like putting oranges and hamburger in the corn popper.
After a few years, we moved on to a more modern computer. The old one ended up in pieces in our second son's closet. He used it for parts, I guess. That wouldn't be so painful if I'd actually paid it off, first. It sounds like a tired cliche' but I really do turn to the kids when I have a computer glitch. Frankly, I sound like a tired cliche' most of the time and my more serious glitches have nothing to do with the computer.
Well, enough web-whining. Enjoy the new weather web page and, please, let us know what you think and any suggestions you have. For example, I'm lobbying the gurus to add "Disney Kitchen" to the list of options. So far, they're just barely willing to allow me and this bloggerania on here.
Now, onto ME! ME! ME!
I have a confession to make. I was a bit apprehensive about the new stuff. I am not much of a modern tech person. If this was the 1800s, I could be one those Luddites. They were a bunch of guys who didn't much care for the Industrial Revolution or, from the pictures, dental hygiene. They tended to take their distrust of progress too far, at times. For example, they got to some of the mechanized looms and smashed them to smithereens. (Now, there's a word you don't see much these days. Perfect for a Linguistic Luddite.) Up north we had Mechanized Loons but there was a serious fine for damaging them.
As is the case in plenty of households, I get pushed into the 20th and, now 21st, century--against my will--by the kids. Back when our oldest was about six, he came home from school convinced that everyone else in the world had a computer. I resisted. He persisted. I resisted. He enlisted...the help of his little brother and sister and, most importantly, his mom. So, I desisted. Thanks to that little computer, which was outdated by the time we got the box open, the kids travelled the Oregon Trail...learned typing from Mavis Beacon...built things in LegoLand...and explored many other cyber sites. Personally, I have to admit I did enjoy Disney's Kitchen where you could create web-tastic recipes with the help of Minnie and Mickey. Of course, the most fun in that kitchen was doing things you'd never do in a real kitchen like putting oranges and hamburger in the corn popper.
After a few years, we moved on to a more modern computer. The old one ended up in pieces in our second son's closet. He used it for parts, I guess. That wouldn't be so painful if I'd actually paid it off, first. It sounds like a tired cliche' but I really do turn to the kids when I have a computer glitch. Frankly, I sound like a tired cliche' most of the time and my more serious glitches have nothing to do with the computer.
Well, enough web-whining. Enjoy the new weather web page and, please, let us know what you think and any suggestions you have. For example, I'm lobbying the gurus to add "Disney Kitchen" to the list of options. So far, they're just barely willing to allow me and this bloggerania on here.
Posted at 3:37 AM
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