No, not the first blog posting about our two year old daughter, but the first blog posting by our Vanessa. It’s her first ever post to a blog, at just a tender age of about 2 years and 5 months. Kids these days start early huh! I am totally surprised too, when I found out about the posting. How did it happen?
Well, I discovered it by chance actually. I noticed that my blog was updated. But I hadn’t posted any updates. So I checked, then I noticed there was a new photo entry in my Aside block (in the sidebar).
I checked the posting. It was empty, except for a photo, and some standard footer text. Ah… it was a posting from my Nokia N97 phone. Even more interesting eh? Most people do their blogging from a PC. It’s mostly the very techie who blog from their mobile devices. Then here the two year old Vanessa is blogging from my N97.
Heh. Okay, Vanessa was playing with my phone earlier, and one of the things she likes to do is to go through the photo gallery. It turns out that there is a one-button click to upload the current photo to my blog, which had already been configured as a photo sharing service for me to write blog entries. I don’t actually use this one-button upload feature, because it just uploads the photo without giving me an opportunity to add title, caption, or anything at all.
So Vanessa discovered a feature I did not use at all. She’s going to be very proficient with electronic devices, I think. She knows how to work the touchscreen, she knows how to swipe the screen to flip through photos. I imagine if I had a modern MacBook Pro with multitouch trackpad, she will be doing two-finger, three-finger, and four-finger swipes, pinches, rotates, etc.
The touchscreen on the phone has become such as assumed function that, the other day when she was holding on to an old E66 phone, she complained that the phone was not working. Yeah, not working because she was poking the screen with her fingers, and it was not a touchscreen phone.
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