Grannies in the Blogosphere at Christmas  GARRINGREEN -- I went online once, early on Christmas Day, in search of recipes for roast turkey and cranberry sauce from scratch. Then I kept the online recipes in cache to show our guests how I made both of them. The Scottish grannies down the street think it's remarkable how this Internet thing works. And to think the recipes cost me nothing! Well, they actually cost me 99 cents, which is about the amount I paid eircom for the phone call and the daily line rental for ISDN.
Dave was whinging that "it's hard to find much news on Christmas Day" as he trawled Weblogs.Com for interesting tidbits. "It's kind of lack-of-news news, but I guess that's news," he surmised.
While online with Ms Dynamite playing in the background, my Newzcrawler grabbed over 220 breaking stories, so I made a hard copy of all the pages for guest to hold and read. You can't buy a current copy of an Irish broadsheet on Christmas Day, so it's important to be able to roll your own personal newspaper.
Then I cut and printed my blogroll for the grannies. I don't think they understand what this blogging thing is all about. But when I told them it was like getting a daily Christmas card from friends and families, they had to see how that worked. They didn't understand the funny looking letter C on the printout, so I showed them The Creative Commons Weblog but they still don't get it.
My Christmas wish: to set up one nursing home with a hands-free Internet experience for residents before 2004. If I'm to retain my sanity when I'm old, I will need my daily dosage of online mental interactions. That includes my contact with the blogosphere and a way to share files with my kids.
Musings from Garringreen, County Kilkenny, Ireland.
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