Hello World
Published on 3 Mar 2006 at 1:36 pm.
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Today I leave the kicking and screaming behind and enter the 21st century. I will probably never get my AirCar and Gap has not yet come out with futuristic jumpsuits, but that doesn’t mean that I should sit around sulking. Instead I am going to see if I can enjoy, what was to me, the unforeseen future…blogging. Some of my friends may be surprised at my reluctance to use these new technologies, especially when I have worked to develop some of them (Neurodatabase.org at Cornell University). But strangely enough, while I am more than happy to develop technologies, I have a streak of technophobia. A lot of it comes from my mistrust of other people’s software, but I am sure that a fear of change lies somewhere at the heart.
So today I celebrate this, my first post. It follows my first chat, which I had last week with my friend Carlos Rodriguez, who incidentally saw the future well before many of us. He had the first website at the University at Albany (SUNY) running since 1993. He is currently urging me to get into Ubuntu Linux.
I know two others with blogs…
Anita Derouen (my sister-in-law) who hosts Wool & Words
Barney Pell who is a friend from when we both worked at NASA Ames Research Center
In this blog I hope to record interesting things that I have learned or experienced, and leave little pieces of knowledge for myself and others. But let’s play scientist and perform a little experiment and count how many days it takes before I post a rant about a social injustice that I happen to learn about.
That being said, HELLO WORLD!
Kevin Knuth
Delmar, New York
