left behind
This is my first entry. It is a continuation of my personal drog. I have been writing my drog for some years now on my personal computer. I began my drog in the late '80s when I began to test my 'word processor' (actually a primitive text editor). I called my product, Word Salad because it had a special cryptographic feature. I thought of it as a sort of personal diary which could be kept on a personal computer with no fear that the diary might be read by anyone who did not know the 'password.' (By 'password' I mean the decryption key.)
Word Salad was written in Apple Assembly Language. Although the text editor was primitive the cryptographic system was fairly modern. I had much faith in my new creation until I read some disturbing news on the rudimentary 'web' to the effect that crt displays could be duplicated by remote systems. That is to say, what I wrote on my crt could be reproduced on another, nearby crt, by means of 'Van Eck Eavesdropping.' This news was devastating because it rendered Word Salad useless (being gassed here). But by that time I was already in the habit of writing a journal. (standby while I get another drink...)
I eventually abandoned Word Salad for Creative Writer, a children's text editor. (I love Creative Writer!) I think it was in 1997 when I received my first social security check. That was the year I abandoned my Apple II+ in favor of a brand new 120 mhz computer. By that time I was a veteran drogger. I bought yet another computer a few years later - 900 mhz. My latest rig runs at about two gig. I am writing this on my latest rig, though I still write my drog on the 900.
Which brings up the subject of how much drog I should convert to blog. Not much I presume. Perhaps I should summarize my most recent drog in this blog. Why not. Here goes:
Picture me in a (standby) exectutive chair sandwiched between two tables each of which contains a computer with crt. I read my drog from one crt and write that drog into my blog on the other crt. That is the situation. Be aware that I am not used to the concept of 'political correctness' as it relates to my drog. But I do understand that PC is the lubrication which allows disparate ideas to flow freely. And we all benefit from that free flow of ideas. So in my latest drog I have made it my business to be very politically correct. Therefore I can translate drog to blog with minimal worry about PC. Or can I?
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