Waiting for mail to arrive?

It used to be an essential moment in the day. The moment that the mailman (or woman) came and throws something in that mail-box. I remember that when I was young, our mailman even came twice a day. What a luxury.

Nowadays the waiting for mail has changed quite a bit. One actively look for ones own mail by collecting the e-mail. Or better, why not search on the internet in all those BLOG's that people have published. Some of them you know, and before you know it, you find new information, even before the person has written it to you. Now that is fast communication!

Nice to read Michael Leigh's reaction to my previous entry. Seems he is keeping track of my BLOG. That is the fun of such a BLOG. It is like writing a letter, but not knowing who is going to read it. So yes, I do enjoy seeing those reactions. Actually they cause e-mail as well, since each entry generates an e-mail as well.

Nowadays it isn't that much waiting for the moment the mail arrives. It is more trying to deal with the dataflows one has coming his/her way. If one isn't on the Internet at all, this doesn't make sense at all. Maybe I will send a few prints of this text to mail-art friends that aren't online, and mention the address they can write to (TAM, P.O.Box 10388, 5000JJ Tilburg, Netherlands). That way I can see what I think of this. Maybe someone else even prints out this text for me and passes it allong. All communication-forms are possible nowadays.

Michael Leigh wrote that he is actually learning about HTML now too. It is learning a new language that one hasn't learned as a child. My stdents nowadays all know about HTML, and mostly already have their own sites. If not, they just get an assignment to learn how to do that and to send in the link where they have published the site. How to learn about HTML? Not that difficcult. Just go to www.google.com and look for the words HTML COURSE. You can easily find out all there is to know. How to stich a postage stamp on an envelope is something different. Some students I have don't even send out envelopes at all. They hate the slow communication and want all done by e-mail.

A 'nice' future we have ahead............

Ruud