hello, world

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"While small test programs existed since the development of programmable computers, the tradition of using the phrase "Hello world!" as a test message was influenced by an example program in the seminal book The C Programming Language. The example program from that book prints "hello, world" (without capital letters or exclamation mark), and was inherited from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Brian Kernighan, Programming in C: A Tutorial, which contains the first known version:
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int main()
{
printf("hello, world");
return 0;
}
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"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world_program)

For a traditional technologist like me, Texting, Blogging and Tweeting seemed superfluous or self-indulgent! I began to slowly get over this opinion after the 9/11 attacks!

I lived and worked in New York City on the morning of the attack. On that day, I could not be reached EXCEPT BY TEXT. Cell phone service in the city was at an all time low but my cousin was able to text me to find out that I was all right!

THAT was the beginning of texting for Ken Davis!

An honest look at my relationship with technological change recalls the time that I thought of wireless connectivity for Personal Computers, as a BAD JOKE! Yet, here I sit using that technology with my laptop to create this BLOG!

SO!

Just like my cousin, I plan to share and communicate with you! Like the elementary beginners program that prints “hello, world”;

This is my beginning as a BLOGER (I still don’t TWEET)!

LIFE IS CHANGE!