Anne Frank's blog

Technology eh, how it moves on. I remember when the loading screen of Daley Thompson's Decathlon on my 48k (yes 48k, hadn't even heard of a megabyte then much less the surely impossible gigabyte) Spectrum was so wonderous it made my jaw drop (after several failed loading attempts due to the volume on the cassette recorder - whatever happened to those - being set to the wrong level; these kids don't know how lucky they are with their instant loading X-Boxes). The loading "wailing fax" sound was kind of cool in it's own way too. Who could forget several hours typing BASIC jargon just to play a feeble Pong knock off (or not, I could never get those bastard things to work. A single incorrect character or a wobble of the power pack and it was mission abandoned in favour of taping Radio 1 Top 40 by putting the aforementioned cassette recorder up against your dad's radio). And what the hell could "POKE" possibly mean?

Imagine how history would have been if technology had advanced at a more accelerated rate. Yarns taught in school would pan out a lot differently "so Anne Frank escaped to the attic with her laptop...." or "The fire brigade arrived promptly in Pudding Lane after several bystanders rang for assistance on their mobiles".

Well here's my first blog

This is either a really new & exciting journey on the information super highway or the final nail in my anorak coffin. It may well turn out to be the biggest let down since chat rooms, it sounds a potentially great idea; a meeting of minds from all over the world, a chance to swap fascinating stories and anecdotes with people from different countries and/or cultures, an opportunity to make friends with similar interests....or just a place to observe the banal conversations of people who obviously already know each other (can't these people just meet for a pint?) or be persued by perverted cretins who fancy a wank.

I'll see how it pans out, I've always enjoyed the sound of my own typing (the computer version of the sound of my own voice....) .

I've spent far too long setting this up so I will leave it here for now and have a read at what some of my fellow bloggers have got to say for themselves.

Goodbye if anyone is actually reading this is!