What's going on and what's in a name

Travel - Went to VA. this week. Going to NJ. next week. Maybe going to OH. after the holidays , or not. No, I'm not independently wealthy. I travel for work.

You can see photos of my travels, and other stuff, on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannon-vaughan/

As for the name Codex Ostraca, it's a phrase I came up with to describe the Internet.

Codex is a medieval Latin word for a book with separate pages bound together, like the ones we have today, as opposed to a single scroll.

Ostraca is the singular of ostracon. It's a rock or potsherd which someone has written something on. People in antiquity used ostracon to write short notes, receipts for goods, ballots, magic spells and formulas, etc.; in other words all the stuff of everyday life. They wrote on ostracon because the stray rock or potsherd was much less expensive and more readily available than the parchment or vellum that the books and scrolls of the day were written on.

So, the Internet is humanity having a go at taking all of our individual ostraca with all of their varied sizes, shapes, textures, etc. and trying to bind them all together into one coherent codex.


Anyway... this codex will soon fill up with my posts, diatribes, rants, raves, likes, dislikes, general pontifications and other such ostracon.

Let the floodgates be opened.... : )