cactus

The photo to the right of the beautiful cactus flower after rain is a little deceiving. The cactus looks and is harmless enough. There are no spikes or thorns and the flowers and their buds are just so appealing. After the rain they looked fresh and inviting. Full of anticipation I walked towards the beautiful cactus flower and took a deep breath. The stench of rotting meat hit my senses and had me reeling backwards choking and gasping for breath.

When I heard about the learning 2.0 program it sounded wonderful. Learn about blogging (which I had always been tempted to try to use but just never knew where to start) learning about Flickr, Podcasting, Wikis and RSS of which I knew nothing about but it all sounded just so appealing. Learn in a learning environment, there didn't seem to be any spikes or thorns there. Seemed straight forward enough a fresh and inviting atmosphere. I sat down at the computer full of anticipation of my huge learning curve. Then reality hit me and had me reeling backwards.

I'm not really comparing learning 2.0 to rotting meat but guess I am saying that they both had the same effect on me. Though unlike the cactus flower which I now know to stay well clear of I kept coming back to my computer chair and the result has been very pleasing. I am enjoying playing with my blog and I am finally getting a good grasp of Flickr even though I am amazed at some of the things that others have done with it.