IT vs IS

I'm not really an IT person. I've decided that I'm really an IS person. I know just enough tech (read computers and virtual fill-in-the-blank) to be dangerous. As a bean-counter at heart, I'm really about information systems. Of course, they are inexorably linked, especially in the 21st century.

I am fascinated by information flow. In the olde days (and now only at the drive-up tellers), information moved quickly via pneumatic tubes. I remember those days. I remember the telex machine. The day I first sent a fax that would appear simultaneously on the other side of the world, I was astounded! Twenty-five years later, I was blogging from Italy.

Once upon a time, I could actually write code. Unfortunately (?), Fortran is as dead a language a Latin or Koine Greek. I could write a Lotus macro, but only did so out of necessity (why would you need to write an Excel macro?).

I try to keep up, but sometimes my fingernails get tired. I need help. I need technical people around me. I am their biggest fan.

More blog clutter

At the risk of adding to the mass quantity of stuff on the internet, and in bloggerland especially, I venture into a new blog intended to focus on ministry-related observations/aspirations/realizations. There are some profound blogs that challenge me and expand my world. My goal is not that lofty. I'm just one gal trying my best to serve my church and employer with what I've learned along the way and with other things I am figuring out as I go along.

This may end up being a tree-in-the-forest thing - a public journalling exercise that no one bothers to read. I doubt that my meager comments will take up much room in the blogosphere.