As someone who is pretty much self-taught for all I do, I am fascinated with the learning process.  I met a man named K.B. Jinan in the World Social Forum in 2004 in Mumbai, India (it seems the world knows the new name now, no longer necessary to use the old name of Bombay).  

I spent about an hour interviewing him and he had some amazing things to say, I think I could really do something with those tapes in addition to what I already did which you can see here:

Anyways, what I find totally fascinating is watching my child Maya learning. She’s almost 11 months and she just is non-stop with trying to figure things out. I feel like I am the same way and would love to stay that way, but know that the way in which she approaches it is so much more amazing than I do. I suppose I was similar, but her non stop curiosity is what is really mind blowing. I feel like watching her learn is going to allow for me to learn more.

I have an iPhone and an iTouch and watching my daughter play around with it at 10 months and do drawings and then try to use the touch screen interface on a Windows Mobile 6.1  phone which doesn’t have the feature is cool.  Watching a five year old cousin of my daughter use the same iPhone’s music program which is essentially a step-sequencer with tonal modalities that make it hard to sound bad program it visually with a little squares as opposed to how it sounds which is how I always did it was cool.  Watching a 65 year old client interact with an iPhone I had procured and her long nails and not so agile fingers try to navigate it is and was a contrast.  In the end the iPhone was a  business application for her and it ended up working great (after 30 hours of looking for the right application on the internet to share business docs from a PC server to her iPhone).

For me, I use the iPhone/iTouch to study user interfaces and to study in general.  I am taking courses at Stanford and MIT basic programming on iTunes University as well as graduate level UI Design stuff.  I got started wanting to take the iPhone application development course at Stanford, but three courses in I realized that a web designer an Objective-C programmer does not make!  It’s pretty cool to be back in college again.

  Filesharing my 3G WM 6.1 phone is what has got my new fascination with networking going on.  For someone who got on the Internet in 1994 and wrote his main paper in International Relations in 1990 entitled Computopia I really don’t know that much about networking, but that is beginning to change.  I tried to teach myself a bit on the web, but that was like no way impossible tooo many ads.  Google will be bit in the butt for what they have created on the web, this much is certain.

Well, I got here to WordPress today because I was trying to integrate this Blog into my Shopify website at http://electroliquid.myshopify.com This is just a Dev site right now as I develop for my clients/friends in France.

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