Blog Site Considerations

If you came to this site from the “Al About Nothing” Web Site you noticed that on the “AAN Blog” Page a description of the “hoops” being jumped through to decide which Blog Site to use.

One of the considerations for a Blog post is the color scheme. Black type on white background is easy to read and I plan on blogging my "nothing" everyday. In some research I did several years ago I found an article from the University of Michigan that said that black type on a white background is the best type set for the reader. When using multiple colors it causes the reader to have to re-focus their eyes and could cause headaches, something some of the web pages I have seen should take in to consideration. When I get to one of these web sites that are so busy with flashing ads, colors spewing all over the screen and pop-up ads swirling all over the place, I made an immediate decision of “I am going to get NOTHING from this experience” and I move on.

I remember "back in the day" when computers were just beginning to come in to the business environment the screens that has black backgrounds with vibrant green type. This was a guaranteed headache with in four hours of use. We always had a bottle of “Bayer” next to the “CRT” (“back in the day” this was what is now called a monitor or screen).

I say “Back in the day” because I have been in the technology arena since 1965. I started my career working the midnight shift on a Control Data G-15. This “computer” was a whole 4K drum storage with tape as the input and a type writer as output. (**Google "Control Data G-15"). When using tape as input you would attach a grooved spool to the face of the computer and feed the tape over the spool. A rubber wheel situated above the spool would press on the tape and spin to feed the tape through a light reader. Because the tape had a tendency to “jump” out of the spool, we used rubber bands (Data conversion Adapters) strategically attached to pegs in the face of the tape reader to hold or guide the tape through the reading process. As the tape went though the reader we had a cardboard box (Data Collection Receptacle) to catch the processed tape. Some if the tape runs used 500 foot long tape, usually paper tape, but sometimes Mylar tape for data that was going to be stored for a long period of time in a cabinet (Data Storage Vault).

** Here is an example of how I plan to blog. If I don’t want to do the research, I will say “Google” plus the topic and let you the reader find out for yourself what I am referring to. At some later date I might do the research and put up some pictures of the subject in the blog, but for now it's going to be "Google" it.

Side Note: “Stairway to Heaven” is playing on Star 103 FM.