A collection of 36 posts
Introduction In the fall of 1973 I began attending Augsburg College as my first college experience directly out of high school. In the past forty-five years I have experienced taking many college-level classes in various disciplines, a forty-plus-year career in all manner of computer and telecommunications technologies, personal, family, and
Read moreIntroduction In the fall of 1973 I began attending Augsburg College as my first college experience directly out of high school. In the past forty-five years I have experienced taking many college-level classes in various disciplines, a forty-plus-year career in all manner of computer and telecommunications technologies, personal, family, and
Read moreThe Foundation of Ethics – Right and Wrong, True and False Over my sixty-plus years I have certainly been exposed to a number of viewpoints on the subjects of ethics, right and wrong! No less important have been the definitions of true and false. I subscribe to the Ten Commandments as
Read moreThe Foundation of Ethics – Right and Wrong, True and False Over my sixty-plus years I have certainly been exposed to a number of viewpoints on the subjects of ethics, right and wrong! No less important have been the definitions of true and false. I subscribe to the Ten Commandments as
Read moreThe Early Years My earliest childhood memories are amazing in detail and vivid clarity. They remain with me sixty years later. I was born on the Sandia military base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I remember swimming in the base pool. I remember riding on the back of my dad’s
Read moreThe Early Years My earliest childhood memories are amazing in detail and vivid clarity. They remain with me sixty years later. I was born on the Sandia military base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I remember swimming in the base pool. I remember riding on the back of my dad’s
Read moreI was recently asked the following questions concerning accessing web sites via a screen reader. 1. When using a screen reader on a new page you’ve never accessed before, how do you typically figure out what’s on the page and how to navigate around it? 2. Has there
Read moreI was recently asked the following questions concerning accessing web sites via a screen reader. 1. When using a screen reader on a new page you’ve never accessed before, how do you typically figure out what’s on the page and how to navigate around it? 2. Has there
Read moreI am a life long braille reader who enjoys the freedom that braille gives me to read any book that has been transcribed or translated. Braille is the key to literacy for all of us who are blind. I can’t imagine not reading braille. It would be like depriving
Read moreI am a life long braille reader who enjoys the freedom that braille gives me to read any book that has been transcribed or translated. Braille is the key to literacy for all of us who are blind. I can’t imagine not reading braille. It would be like depriving
Read moreIn doing some cleaning out of storage spaces recently, I came across ten reels of magnetic tape with no labels on them. My parents had given them to me several years ago when they were cleaning up. I was fortunate to be able to listen to there contents thanks to
Read moreIn doing some cleaning out of storage spaces recently, I came across ten reels of magnetic tape with no labels on them. My parents had given them to me several years ago when they were cleaning up. I was fortunate to be able to listen to there contents thanks to
Read moreIt is an amazing thing to think about is the reality of the world we experience in our day-to-day lives. When I was a child, I was told by someone – who’s name I have now forgotten – that “blind people can’t ride a bike because if one cannot see
Read moreIt is an amazing thing to think about is the reality of the world we experience in our day-to-day lives. When I was a child, I was told by someone – who’s name I have now forgotten – that “blind people can’t ride a bike because if one cannot see
Read moreI am so amazed that I haven’t posted to this blog in over two years! 🙂 So much has happened and so much has changed. I am now almost 58. 🙂 Both of my parents are in heaven! I am loving learning and school! I made one of those new year
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