The first post

I suppose the first post here should explain why it has taken me so long to establish a blog and to do what everyone else on the web has been doing for so long.

There are several concerns, but the one that I think I find the most pertinent is that for me this is a new form of writing, one that I am not currently accustomed to, and one that will take some adjustment. I will attempt to curb my attempts to over-edit, and will endeavor to make this a regular habit. That being said, I suppose this will be a learning experience for me - and I will attempt ot comment on it as I go

( - one of the more irritating things that occured as I attempted to set this up was needing to enter the secret word about 20 times before I got one that I could actually read and retype successfully. We use machines to communicate, but those same machines seem work at cross purposes with our communication and we struggle to find some mix of human/machine interaction that actually favors the human)

On the positive side, I believe that I have something to say about learning and will attempt to say it here. In addition to reading and looking at lots of information (two different activities) on web based learning, I am also pretty good at conducting experiments on myself. I will attempt to comment on these. Perhaps some will be of general interest, and perhaps some will provoke further exploration or comment.

R