Technology

I promise I will not have three posts everyday, but today is the first day and I have plenty to write about on the blog. This morning I had office hours for The Current Sauce, the Northwestern State University student-run newspaper, and about an hour in the internet went down. I hate when technology fails me or fails in general. I live through technology. Constantly I am checking and writing e-mails, going to new websites, reading the news from the best websites and news sources on the web and trying to find something new to do online, and because of my addiction with doing all of the above I am dependent upon computers and especially the Internet. Anyway, the Internet was out for about two hours and I was confined to using my Blackberry for all communication through technology. I love my Blackberry as a secondary source, but not as the only source for surfing the web. During the two hours, the News Editor began to wonder how the down time was impacting the school, students and faculty at NSU, and I began to ponder life without the Internet and before the Internet. We were most definitely a more patient society because we could not just send a quick e-mail to someone about an event taking place at the end of the week, but rather had to hand write or type a letter to be mailed by the United States Postal Service. The turn around time was much greater, but the message was much more personal. Now if I send an e-mail, I expect a response within 24 hours for sure and normally within 8-12 hours. Ultimately, I realize that technology is a very important resource in the business world and in the personal world, but is it more important than the virtue of patience? I do not know the answer to this question, but what is your take. Let everyone know by commenting to this post. For now, technology will continue to make me more impatient than what I would be without having technology.

The Masters

Yesterday was the final round of my favorite major championship in golf-- The Masters. I watched bits and pieces of the tournament from Thursday to Saturday and had full intentions of watching or listening to almost all of the final round on Sunday, but something was not happening fast enough for me. What was that something that was missing? It was Tiger Woods making a comeback to win his fifth green jacket of his career. I am normally for the underdog, but Tiger just has that element that makes me want to always see him on top. I like seeing him make the long putts as he did on the 11th hole on Sunday, and I wish he could have made a couple on the 13th-18th holes to cause some excitement. Like I said, I had full intentions of watching or listening to almost all of the final round, but I did not because Tiger was not making a big enough run for the championship. I am happy for Trevor Immelman for winning his first green jacket and following in the footsteps of his mentor and fellow South African Gary Player, but I still wish Tiger could have pulled it off. Trevor Immelman did break one of Tiger's records though; he was 10-under on Par 4's for the tournament. In one interview today, Immelman said that he did not look at the scoreboard at all and did not know where he stood after the double bogey on 16. I find that impressive to have so much self-discipline. He did say that his caddie told him he was still doing fine, but his caddie never told him exactly how he stood or who was behind him. Next year, It will be Trevor Immelman presenting the green jacket to someone, and maybe it will be a someone who was receiving his fifth green jacket, but until then I will continue to cheer for the favorite as Tiger plays for the other three championships and many other PGA events for the remainder of the season.

The Daily Grind

Have you ever thought that from one day to the next everything looks the same, but then realized how different the day really is. Today, I walked up to the newsroom and decided that I wanted to start a blog. Why a blog? It is a way to express myself and to post opinions on different things that I care about or like to talk about. It can serve as a soapbox on some days or maybe as an educational site on other days. It is a way to move each day forward, but still have something to look back on about what I was thinking or what was happening in the world on that day. I hope that someone will find the topics of interest, and join in the conversation through comments or questions and allow this site to become a fun place to collaborate and communicate.