Snow in Montréal. I'm suprised how Picasa seems to integrate nicely in Blogger. It's a pity that I don't have a personnal camera to make full use of it... 
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Picasa test
Snow in Montréal. I'm suprised how Picasa seems to integrate nicely in Blogger. It's a pity that I don't have a personnal camera to make full use of it...
Start of it all...
I suppose I could start by saying why I started blogging...
First of all, this is actually not my first blog. I had (and still have) an online diary before where I wrote, not the current or passing tought, but my darkess feeling and emotions. It was like a liberation from the problems that were controling my life. That era is gone now. I have gone trough depression and emerged, scarred, but victorious. I am trying to put a distance between this part of my life and now, so a change of blog looked like a good start.
At the same time, why not start using a new blogging tool? Blogger seemed a good choise because or various posting or blogging tools.
As for why I choose this title and this web link... Simply because I wanted something unique, something that reflected me while at the same time being something people can relate to, or at least understand.
VE2DMN. Victor Echo 2 Delta Mike November. These are my callsign as licenced Amateur radio operator. While i'm not an active member of the community, I think the callsign is a good 'unique' trait and, for the initiated, show that I probably know something about radio or electronic devices. (My knowledge is VERY limited)
'Living I.T. on the fence' is more a indication of how I fell living in Montréal, in multiple cultures and dealing daily with the limits of both. When you live in a monoculture, you cannot comprehend the hardship that one has to go trought to teach someone who doesn't speak a single word in english how to use a computer. Especially when all the tools avaible are made for an english-speaking audience. Of course living in a dual-speaking envirronnement has it share of advantages and disavantages. I can communicate and understand jokes in two language but I can't write neither without making mistakes. I can choose between a large number of books or manuals, but nobody ever understand my own notes because of the bilangual syntax I use. I can read error messages in multiple languages but I can translate theirs meanings to anyone. I don't want to go into the whole Quebec language debate, but things being has they are, I have to live with it.
Anyway, we'll see if I can post often enough to be interesting... :)
First of all, this is actually not my first blog. I had (and still have) an online diary before where I wrote, not the current or passing tought, but my darkess feeling and emotions. It was like a liberation from the problems that were controling my life. That era is gone now. I have gone trough depression and emerged, scarred, but victorious. I am trying to put a distance between this part of my life and now, so a change of blog looked like a good start.
At the same time, why not start using a new blogging tool? Blogger seemed a good choise because or various posting or blogging tools.
As for why I choose this title and this web link... Simply because I wanted something unique, something that reflected me while at the same time being something people can relate to, or at least understand.
VE2DMN. Victor Echo 2 Delta Mike November. These are my callsign as licenced Amateur radio operator. While i'm not an active member of the community, I think the callsign is a good 'unique' trait and, for the initiated, show that I probably know something about radio or electronic devices. (My knowledge is VERY limited)
'Living I.T. on the fence' is more a indication of how I fell living in Montréal, in multiple cultures and dealing daily with the limits of both. When you live in a monoculture, you cannot comprehend the hardship that one has to go trought to teach someone who doesn't speak a single word in english how to use a computer. Especially when all the tools avaible are made for an english-speaking audience. Of course living in a dual-speaking envirronnement has it share of advantages and disavantages. I can communicate and understand jokes in two language but I can't write neither without making mistakes. I can choose between a large number of books or manuals, but nobody ever understand my own notes because of the bilangual syntax I use. I can read error messages in multiple languages but I can translate theirs meanings to anyone. I don't want to go into the whole Quebec language debate, but things being has they are, I have to live with it.
Anyway, we'll see if I can post often enough to be interesting... :)
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