Pouring Information

Greetings. I'm pouring information into my brain this week. I think it's overflowing. I'll just keep pouring though. Between all my classes I've had nine chapters of reading to do, plus a few assignments.

I finally spent time reading the Internet Technologies book and I have to say I like it so far. I thought the first chapter featuring the basics of the Internet was informative and helpful. I appreciate learning everything I possibly can about the Internet and this book covers a lot. I have mixed feelings about the Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox portion, because it seems very familiar. I am confident the rest of the book will continue to impress me. I'm looking forward to chapter two, which I plan on completing before class on Wednesday afternoon.

I was happy to learn about TLDs (top level domains) and URLs (uniform resource locators) in Tutorial 1, Browser Basics. After looking at URLs for so long and not knowing what they really are, it's a great revelation to understand them properly. I also thought the relationship between ICANN and TLDs was interesting. Learning about the relationship between IP addresses and Domain Names was great, too. I guess all this will fit together and make sense as a whole someday.

I broke my hand in the beginning of July and it's been healing pretty well. I thought I would test it today and tried to shoot a few jump shots at the basketball court at the local YMCA. I heard my wrist make some cracking and popping sounds when I was shooting jump shots. Those troubling noises along with a little pain was enough to make me stop immediately. It still feels a little sore. I'm hoping I'll only have to wait one or two more months before I can play basketball again. We'll see. I just want it to heal properly.