Blogging and all its interesting difficulties

 

For those of you reading this, and who either have, or ever thought of having a blog, you would each have your own point of view on the difficulties accompanying creative writing. 

I find myself in the rather uncomfortable situation of being totally out of practise when it come to the art of the creative reconstructing of a boring day's events in such a way as to be interesting to the normal human being. Thus, I believe it would be better if I stick to factual information instead.

I will thus mostly dedicate this blog to useful stuff, such as written tutorials on using technology and interesting articles.

If you have any specific requests, please let me know. 

You can contact me by referring back to my first blog post, "introducing myself".

For your information, this blog post was written entirely on my iPhone using Fleksy.

 

Introducing myself

 

If you are reading this, I would not be surprised if you lost something somewhere along the way, such as your mind.

 

This blog will mostly be a combination of totally pointless ramblings, with maybe a nugget of useful information in between. 

 

Well, as the title of this post say, I am supposed to introduce myself. So let's get to it.

 

I am a South African guy, born on 16 May 1986. My schooling was rather standard for a blind South African, I graduated from the Pioneer school in Worcester, Western Cape, in 2004. for anybody that knows South African schools for the blind, the Pioneer school has been seen as the premier school in the country of it's kind for many years. Well, it was on it's way out at the time I graduated. But, alas I digress.

 

As you might guess from the school I have graduated from, I am blind although, I also have mild to severe hearing loss. after a stroke in 2009, I also lost some of the use in my right leg, as well as most all of the use of my right arm.

 

As most Pioneer school students did, I received a basic grounding in the use of a white cane. after the strobe, I had to retrain myself however, for I was right-handed. 

 

Somewhere round  March 2012, I decided that my days of using a cane is over. I applied for a guide dog, which I received on 3 September 2012.

 

Yeah, for those of you who know me, I am speaking of Farrell.

 

Hmm, what more do you want to know? Or more like, what am I willing to share?

 

I started using computers roundabout 1996, on an old 486 running MS-DOS 6. the screen reader I had available at the time was Soft Vert, with an old soundingboard speech synthesiser. I don't think I will ever forget the first time I wrote a letter using WordPerfect 5.1. I would say, I lost my written communication virginity using that old 486.

 

I started using windows right about 1999, with Windows 98. Don't ask me the machine, for I will not be able to tell you. I can however, say my first Windows screen reader was a demo of window bridge, with the old keynote gold multimedia software synthesiser. unfortunately humanware decided to discontinue it. God knows why though. Everybody that I know that used it, loved it.

 

After many years of Windows trouble, I bought my MacBook Pro  about two months ago as of this posting. At this point, I do not think I will be looking back at Windows. I have switched completely. Of course, I still find some things difficult, but those are mostly things that I found  difficult in windows as well.

 

Okay, I think I shall end things here, for now anyway.

 

I hope you have enjoyed today's entertainment, please stay tuned. As I have said in the title of this blog, this is basically my random musings about life, the universe and everything. Postings might be erratic. There will definitely not be any set posting schedule, I feel that will defeat the purpose of this blog.

 

You can contact me in the following ways:

 

Click here to send me an email.

 

Click here to chat with me on Skype.

 

Kick here to follow me on Twitter.

 

Click here to follow me on Facebook, why you want to do that I really don't know though.

 

Okay, cheers.