2013-05-17; 9:17am, Friday.  Sunny and clear, but cool.  Well, you are supposed to be cool!  No?

Diary:  Musings about development of InfoTech and my website.

~~After four years of steady web site building I reassess future directions and priorities. And I recall early computer days, as I wait for automated an update.~~

Last night I posted my entry for the fourteenth (14) this instance.  A bit late, but there is was, the first one in my fifth year of doing my entries, or maybe it is the second.  
	Be that as it may, I have been musing about and around this event all week.  This is best summarised by the question that I entertained: ‘Do I keep going like this?’.  No immediate answer surfaced, but an awareness arose in me about rounding out my website and making is it more presentable to a visitor.

This notion is still with me and last night I printed off the presentation page for each category, which are seven in total, as per navigation bar.  One thing is already clear from this little exercise, which is that these pages differ too much in design, layout and functionality.  I may not be that skilled in graphics design, but I can certainly design for consistency.
	A second notion surfaced as well in response to my self posed question.  It is that I need to round out and complete the category’s contents.  The Left_Hand work is far from complete, the Gallery dates back to 2009 and the ‘Topicals’ and most others need some kind of preamble that weaves a theme for my web site.

The Windows OS wants to do a shut down, so I’ll give it control.<9:35am.
>9:40am, here I am again, updated and all.  These techniques still amaze me at times, as I recall the DOS-3.3 days of the 1980-ties, when I bought my first computer (286?) with very limited 650K? RAM and a drive of 30 megabyte capacity; more than you will ever need, I was told!  
	But, even Gates was wrong about the RAM of 650k, with his: “ … ought to be enough for anybody!”  But, Moore’s law still applies today, about the exponential increase with time of storage capacity.  And yesterday I read that NASA and Google want early dibs in on the Nano computer! 


Writings:  Rapid development, random events and growth curves.

~~Bursts of development occur in history and nature.  I suggest a possible mathematical model combining the Normal and growth curves.  A problem arises as to how to combine those events that belong to the same population.~~

It is interesting to ask the question: ‘What drives this kind of development?’, and ‘What kind of process is this?’  It is not unique and can be compared to the unbelievable number of ships that explored our planet in the time of the explorers, from 14 to 17 hundred say.  
	Holland had a total fleet exceeding twenty thousand (20 000) sailing ships at one time; probably around 1600.  Does the world have fewer ships today? I doubt it, but we do have a much larger world population!  But, the sea exploration have come to an end.

If you consider other inventions, fax, internet, cell-phones, then you notice a similar type of explosive growth.  As I write this I recall the evolutionary type theorys that are non-gradual.  De Vries proposed ‘jumps’ and Gould suggested multi branch type sprouting.  If you look at the present nature process of ice melt, or glacier movements, those are not linear, but are exponential according to the power of ‘e’, the base of the natural [sic] logarithms.
	Growth of a plant or a baby tends to be best describes by a growth curve or exponential step function as is used in electricity.  Mathematics shows that this curve is the integral [think total resulting out come] of the Bell-shape (or Normal)-curve, describing the distribution of randomly occurring events. 

Combining these two you could say that a bunch of events belonging to the same population, but occurring randomly over time produce a growth curve that is characteristic for those events.  This could be a model for the Gould multi-branch evolution - think adaptation - and ‘de-Vries-ian’ jumps!  Not a discontinuity, but a quick transition, when compared to steady state behaviour, like the way lamps or motors demand power when starting up.

Evolutionary adaptation is not a steady state process, in this the original theory is misleading, shaped as it was on theology.

<10:25am; Coffee break;
>10:34am:
An additional observation must be made.  We humans live in a reality made up of event that are not only random, but also belong to many different populations.  So, events must first be ordered by population, before their ‘growth’ behaviour can be observed and formulated.  This is a demanding process and has kept us busy for millennia!  So, don’t postpone your coffee breaks!
<10:39am and 11:02am with editing.~