Week Two, Thing Three: Set up your own blog and add your first post

I set up this "23 Things" blog last week. I hope it's okay that I haven't been sticking very strictly to the topic of each "thing" in question.

I was going to hold off on writing this post until later, because I haven't been able to watch "Blogs in Plain English" yet. I need Adobe Flash 10 installed on my computer, and I asked the IT department to install it, but they haven't done it yet.

In a way, it's strange that I am waiting to have the latest version of Flash installed on my computer. I detest the rampant misuses of Flash throughout much of the internet. If I'm casually browsing the internet on my nifty, 21st century broadband connection, I do not want to wait for things to load. Isn't waiting around for things to load what we did on the internet back in 1998? Yes, waiting for things to load, and having our eyeballs burned by flashing-fluorescent-green-on-black web pages.

And yet, I wait. Because, for all my hatred of unnecessary Flash, the program does seem to have legitimate uses, and appears to be necessary for viewing videos online.

Marginally relevant quote: "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it." (usually attributed to Mark Twain)