why this blog

                                                   
                                                       
  For my own pleasure and learning mostly.               
Yet this is one record of what interests me/         
anyone is welcome to read.  I once thought       
blogging was a sure way for me to connect to    
hundreds of humans, but that notion passed    
shortly after I first established an online     
presence in 2000, though that presence was
a regular web site, and then another.  For
two years in the early going I maintained     
a domain, and during that Ibnar time tried
to become my own webring, building up to       
6 Atriums (as I called them).  Even tried to        
start a business, foolish me.  My Gateway
system came with a connection to AOL, and     
I did use Hometown in small ways, but as     
it turned out/ my major sites were Tripod          
and ThirdAge sites.  Had an autobio stick    
figure site at Yahoo! and several times    
began sites in MSN.  The failed BizLand
site was more like a story poem than a   
business, and that I didn't complete, but     
I did save it offline/ and now it is online        
again in Sprintedon Hollow.  At least I    
think that is where it is.  Do I know where      
I am?  Don't ask.  After buying an HP     
Compaq XP IE6 system in 2006 when I'd   
already cut back to 3 Atriums, trouble
(courtesy of IE6) forced me out of my two    
major sites.  Once had six screen names.    
Two remain.  Attempted to begin an AOL      
Journals blog, but IE6 didn't like that
idea either.  Approximately a year later   
an AOL tech woman talked me into trying   
again.  So on November 3, 2006, I began  
what I then named Salchert's Weblog.  A
certain tenacity is required by anyone       
who decides to become an online citizen.
Especially for someone as introverted as    
I am/ there is no popularity guarantee.
Besides, due to two illnesses, I had to    
quit working and quit driving early in     
January of 2003.  Only twice since then   
have I traveled alone: on planes from   
Gainesville, FL, to Milwakee, WI, and   
from Milwaukee back to Gainesville.    
                                             
So why this blog?  Was told most poets
have blogspot blogs.  That was reason
one.  Reason two was my thinking that   
I could make this blog sufficiently   
unlike S H.  Knew I would not place   
any of my poems or math investigations
here.  Difficult as it had been to post     
some of that work at AOL Journals, I    
was sure it would be impossible for me    
to post those same pieces here.  Other     
reasons have surfaced since June 22,   
2007, the date of my initial Rho post.             
In the spaces not dedicated to posts/    
Blogger's program is more flexible.    
Also, since I decided to repost some
of what was in Tripod and ThirdAge,
by having a second blog/ I could put  
my Brian's Brain journal in Rho and   
my Edges of Knowledge journal in S H,
both of which I was doing until my   
enthusiasm waned.  Not sure when I'll
get back to them.  The only video I   
have posted is in this blog.  Found  
the instructions provided by Google   
and YouTube, however, confusing to  
the point where I almost killed my   
welcome to YouTube.  Before 2000,    
most of the computers I had any     
experience with were Hospitality   
Industry computers because I had  
been a night auditor at motels and    
hotels for over 25 years.  Unless  
instructions are step-by-step clear,
they are of no value to me.  Stop.         
                                            
                                                 
                                              
                                           
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Rho00085