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[at-l] Re Timeframes and Journals and Such
At 12:13 PM 1/9/2005 -0500, Rcalkins@worldbank.org wrote:
>Point is, things keep changing. If I'm
>going to invest a lot of time and energy and thought in a journal, one
>that I'd
>like to share not just now, as it's happening, but for all time, how am I
>going
>to do that? Best I can figure, print it out. Several copies - the odds are
>better that way. Acid free paper is good. But even CDs -- remember those
>five
>inch "floppys" we used to store stuff on? Remember those Betamax tapes....
>Paper. That's the thing. Great invention paper.
Well, you've already invested in the electrical do-dads and I'm sure a lot
of folks here will think I'm just being a techno-cretan (please temper that
thought by remembering that in my pre-retirement days I did work as a
network admin) here's my advice: Get small journals from
http://www.riteintherain.com/ and write your journal the old fashioned way.
There's something special about a journal you can hold in your hands, that
doesn't need batteries and is in your own handwriting, revealing how you
felt at the time by the slant of the letters and complete with stains from
food bits, squashed mosquitos or even your own tears. You can always type
it into a computer later.