2007 January 19 Friday.

My blog of yesterday and www.charleshamel.com got me to thinking about my own personal history of interaction with personal computers.   

My first memories go back to the times when they were selling Commodore 64s and the like in such places as K-Mart. 

At that time I regarded them as merely a toy, something that wasn't very useful.   

When I started as a freshman at Washington State University in the fall of 1980, I was introduced to the computer room at the school because I took a course in BASIC programming. 

To tell you the truth, I couldn't really figure out what it was that I was supposed to be learning at that time, and I only got a "C"  from the instructor.   

Later on after graduation in 1984, I bought one of those cheap knock-offs of the new and famous IBM PC, and started using it for word processing, simple data bases, and crap programming using BASIC.   

When I first came to live and work in Asahikawa in March of 1990, I had my first contact with APPLE COMPUTERs.   Golly Jee!   

The user interface sure is a lot easier to use that the C:>  prompt of DOS 3.2   Where has this PC been all my life?   

Finally in about 1996, I bought a SONY VAIO notebook PC that had WINDOWS 95 installed on it and later up graded to WINDOWS 98se.   

A few years later I bought another SONY VAIO notebook PC that unfortunately had the ME operating system pre-installed on it.   

Finally about two years ago I bought another SONY VAIO notebook PC with a wide screen and WINDOWS XP installed on it.   

Shortly thereafter, I bought the Macromedia STUDIO MX software package that I am now spending considerable time, learning how to use in a better and more efficient manner.   

As far as being "computer smart" or "internet smart", I'm not.   

But I do have many certain objectives in my capacity as a Teacher of English as a Foreign Language, TEFL/TESL  that the personal computer greatly helps me in accomplishing.   

For me, it is merely a tool to obtain a certain objective.  A very powerful tool indeed.   

In fact, it has enabled me to make all of my own original English Language Teaching materials, entirely by myself, and in a manner that is exactly as I have envisioned them to become. 

And, it gets better as time goes on.   Are computers merely another form of the physical expression of endless consciousness?   

It would appear to be so, but what appears to be real, may only be an illusion.   

The Great Illusion.   

Create Your Own Illusion. 

It will be custom made and just for you.

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