• Just replaced the under-the-counter light fixtures. #
• Wanted to go hiking yesterday and today, but the weather did not favor it. At least I did a few house chores I have been putting off. #
• Wanted to go hiking yesterday and today, but the weather did not favor it. At least I did a few house chores I have been putting off. #
• Reading the Getting Started Guide for EndNote X2. Just bought it, and it already looks easier than the previous two versions! #

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• Barack spoke very convincingly. Let’s hope he can now deliver. #
• Slow and relaxing rain outside this morning. Guess that means no hiking today. #
• Enjoying my own sangria recipe while watching Battlestar Galactica. About to grill some lunch. Quiet time off, priceless. #
• Laughed to Victor Vistoria this afternoon. Never saw it before. How clever and entertaining. #
• Watching Battlestar Galactica via DVD. Surprised by how good it is. #
• Watching Battlestar Galactica via DVD. Surprised by how good it is. #

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Borrowing a neighbor’s computer, I just fixed my blog formatting jumbled posts. As I said in the posts themselves (below), with every new technology, it seems there may just be an unintended (and unforeseen) consequence.

Let’s hope there are no more this Labor Day weekend!

I just blogged what I thought was a well-thought out blog post, and there it was–a mess of jumbled words just below this.

It proves the point I tried to make. I will clean it up once I again have web access.
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Jeffrey Keefer
Website: www.jeffreykeefer.com
Blog: www.silenceandvoice.com

Still scratching my heading thinking about some of the wonders and challenges of technology.

I have no Web or Internet access over the long weekend, with only my BlackBerry to keep me connected to the Web and email. I am able to blog via email, which I think is an amazing feature of WordPress. What is odd is how all that happens while my theme and blog formatting in some way gets thrown off. For the life of me I cannot figure out why, though it seems the benefit of one comes with its own drawbacks.

This seems to occur in many situations. I can communicate with friends and colleagues with Twitter and Facebook, but that exposes my privacy. I can buy online, though the possibility of harvesting online credit information is real. I can post my professional qualifications online for consulting work, though know my employer can see them (note for clarification and transparency–I consult on the side, and am not actively looking to change my full-time work!). I regularly engage globally with colleagues at CPsquare and SCoPE, though rarely enjoy the opportunity to meet for coffee or a Manhattan in Manhattan.

Where does this leave us?

Technology is a vast new and exciting world, and it seems every benefit and advancement we experience comes with its own new challenges. Often these are not immediately realized, as new begets new, yet so often in old ways. With these wonderful opportunities we have, how completely new is our Brave New World after all?

• President Clinton is wonderful in his speech now. #
• What an ovation he just got. Well deserved #
• What great convention speeches. Never appreciated Biden before. #
• Enjoying coffee at the beginning of a short and very quiet few days off. #
• Strange to not have Internet access for a few days over the holiday weekend. At least I can check email and post Tweets with my BlackBerry. #
• Learned that the local cloistered monastery will begin making fine French Rouen-patterned tablewear again. #
• Picked up the chipper that was serviced. Never used it before; it was a gift. #

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Seems the blog post I just made via WordPress’s email posting feature removed my theme and formatting. Oh well, who will read my blog over a holiday weekend and notice it?!

Will fix it when I have Web access in a few days.
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Jeffrey Keefer
Website: www.jeffreykeefer.com
Blog: www.silenceandvoice.com

I am taking a few days off after spending all my non-full-time-job time teaching a two-week summer Business Communication intensive. I only have my BlackBerry to keep me in touch, so will see how connected I can remain.

Trying to catch up with reading the “Facilitating Online Communities” FOC08 email discussions is proving quite a challenge. Seems participants are engaging in discussions via the Google Group
http://groups.google.com/group/facilitating-online-communities more than blogs or other channels. I wonder if this is because email is more immediate than posting and linking to a blog post? Whatever the case, there has been a recent explosion in comments recently–almost too much to follow.

Better too much discussion than not enough, I suppose.
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Jeffrey Keefer
Website: www.jeffreykeefer.com
Blog: www.silenceandvoice.com

• About to watch Hillary. #
• Hillary is really quite good tonight. If only she spoke like this over the past four months . . . #
• @pinoyboy It reminds me of prison-wear. Too bad her suit did not have the same power as her speaking. #
• I think Hillary was so good, I hope Barack can live up to it with more than just talk. #
• Last day at work before a long holiday weekend. #
• The company upstairs just discovered thousands of letters they mailed in a big campaign never went out. They are stuck in the mail chute. #

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