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My C2 page
 http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DonaldNoyes

Ether Pad

This is a web-based-collaborative Editor which has as a first cousin Chaos.

It does not have to be so, but with little discipline utilized by its participants, can move there.

It allows simultaneous edit (more than one at a time) of the same document. This is why it can become chaotic.

It has a good feature in that many pads can exist, and that they can represent not just a place to edit, but a focused subject or topic, in which several people may wish to have keyboard-to-keyboard contact (you notice that faces are not used - but why not?)

That is already another application scenario filled by GooglePlus and Skype.

It is just the beginning of my experimentation with this application, and I mean to stretch it in ways not originally intended, with the application of organization and naming schemes and structures, together with internet linkages and some other tricks and slight of hand schemes.

In addition to that and Artifact-is, other characteristics and properties may be manipulated and utilized, such as:
  artifacts-having,  artifact-containing, artifacts-with, artifacts-without
  artifacts-being, artifacts-available, artifacts-unreachable, artifacts-not-ready
  artifacts-as-message-bearers
  artifacts-in-action or artifact-in-use
  artifacts may also be placed or located, removed or modified, locked, un-locked, pending, have-associates, be-federated, be-in-isolation or imprisoned, 
  and so on and on
  the list grows

While scanning some old artifacts, I had the notion that old does not mean antiquated or useless.  Much of the current technology is practiced without skill. Always and every day, new ways of doing things are discovered and implemented. They are often abandoned and deprecated before adequately being used or developed.  It seems if it isn't new, it isn't appropriate for use!

It as if supper is cooked before lunch is done and breakfast is discarded and a snack takes its place. When lunch is done, the business of beginning to cook supper keeps its preparer from consuming lunch.

It has almost become such that new things are tried until they break, and then they are discarded rather than being fixed and made to work. The new things taking their place don't work quite in the same way and require tinkering and experimentation in lieu of reading the instructions or learning how the things work! Instead, the use of the device descends into use to take and send either a "selfie" or a picture of the food on the table in the restaurant having wi-fi and serving expensive drinks that are cousins of coffee, tea or milk.

Such is not the way I observe and use technology. I find something about which I can say "ItWorks", learn how to use it in useful and meaningful ways, taking time to gain skill in using it, usually beyond the time its first or second "upgrade" is introduced and support is dropped on the earlier, useful useable and used version.

To illustrate:  A comment was made recently regarding the calculation of the required resistance of a resistor for a switch tied to a Raspberry-Pi input.  The comment was something like this:  "how did you calculate the voltage drop for the input since the switch was rated 12Volts and the supply voltage was only 3.3 volts?"

Using technology without understanding its basics seems to be commonly practiced today.

It is called "Plug and Play" or something similar. If you plug it in and it doesn't play, you just ask for some non-expert help on a social-site, or the "geeks" you know as to what you need to do, not what you need to know.

Don't Forget Me

I had forgotten about this blog, and having recently re-discovered it, I am going to use it!

Celebration Cookies

I am a believer in celebrations. Particularly when they are associated with food!

Birthday Parties are one of my favorites, and being a Kansan, born in Kansas, living in Kansas, and in keeping with the 150th year celebration in our state, am here offering a discovery of a new kind of cookie to go along with this celebration:

I found it when I did a Google search on the name of this blog. I haven't yet tried it, but intend to make, or have made, a few dozen of them this weekend.

More on this later

A Kansan ThinkingOutLoud

I'm always Thinking about Something or Another



I sometimes (in order not to lose something which might be useful) type it in a file, or in this case to a Blog caled "SunflowerSeeds".

When it is off the cuff, and the result of a whim, or a breath of inspiration, I call it a "Notion". When it has a trace of organization and veracity, I call it an "Idea". When it is something which can be implemented but to my knowledge has not, I call it an "Innovention" ( coined word that is fitting ).

What will go in the Blog will be more of the later with a sprinkling of the earlier.

I use a convention which keeps me organized and mindful of the what and when of the composition involved by signing at its end - like this:  -- ThinkingOutLoud.DonaldNoyes.20111012

I do not anticipate that this blog will be read by great numbers of folk, but it will have at least one.

I am always busy, never finding myself bored or involved in what I may consider meaningless things. Although, this Blog, if not nurtured and frequently populated by posts, may eventually prove to approach insignificance.

You will find me entering text in what some consider strange construction - using a NamingConvention which utilizes CompoundWords in a form called CamelCase. It is a convention which squeezes out the spaces between words, while CapitalizingEachWord to separate and identify as a part. This comes from my fascination with the WorldOfWiki, which started with WardCunningham's WikiWiki which can be navigated from its FrontPage at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FrontPage  I am still active there, although the site has been abandoned by many who were pioneers and trailblazers, and who have left for others to read and consider many pages some of which are listed at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ReallyValuablePages.

Occasionally I will use this blog to introduce new CompoundWords I have registered in a repository which I will explain later in more detail. Such words are used by me and some others as means of organizing what I term as Artifacts. RegisteredWords in the repository will exist with or without ReachableLocales.