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(stealing the Apple iTunes U tag line “I learn, therefore I am.” a little bit…)

Yesterday, I wrote on twitter: “… eight days in a roll” instead of “… eight days in a row.”

In the past, I also miss-pronounced trackpad as “trackback” or “backpack”. Can you imagine the number of variations there could be?

• trackpad
• trackback
• backtrack
• backpack
• backtrack
• trackpack
• …
• and more

velkr0 often picks on me (well, and corrects me). And we would laugh about it. Then I think I learn from our laughters. And next time, when I need to say these words, I will take a deep breath and give it a second thought before I actually move my lips. (Hey, but I can’t guarantee it works all the time!)

But then.. I guess it’s important to be open to criticism, and even being able to laugh over my own mistakes.

So, I laugh, learn, and reflect, therefore I am.

Word of the Day for Tuesday December 20, 2005
digerati \dij-uh-RAH-tee\, plural noun:
Persons knowledgeable about computers and technology.

As high tech spreads outward from Silicon Valley to American society at large and people spend more and more time in cyberspace, the journalist Paulina Borsook steps back to look at the digerati and their view of the world.
–Michiko Kakutani, “Silicon Valley Views the Economy as a Rain Forest,” New York Times, July 25, 2000

[T]his week, over 3,000 digerati will converge at a swank theater where chef Julia Child and pundit Arianna Huffington, among others, will judge 135 Web sites.
–David Whitman, “The calm before the storms,” U.S.News & World Report, May 15, 2000

Quite interesting… I don’t think I am a total digerati at all! I do hope I am at least half a digerati though…