Thursday, November 13, 2025

My website and my blog

The first project we got in grad school was to write a computer program in the computer language Fortran.  We had access to keypunch machines and needed to type each command into one card after another, carrying the cards to the computer building and handing the deck to an operator.  Over night, our cards would be run through the computer and it would print output.  The next day, we could pick up our result and see how our directions worked.  A slow process that used a computer the university rented from the IBM company.  So graduate school and computers went hand in hand for me.


Years later, Lynn showed me what she had learned in grad school: to make web pages.  Eventually, I learned that Google offered tools to make something called a website and a blog.  The blog was run like an article in a newspaper, something like a daily notice.  The website was more   permanent information, often related to lessons I taught in my classes. My website is here: https://sites.google.com/view/kirbyvariety1/welcome-to-my-home-page

And my blog is here: https://fearfunandfiloz.blogspot.com/