A year in review

By David Faucheux

For the past two years on or about May 9, I have posted a blog piece that looks back over the past year. During the past 12 months, visitors to my blog were treated to several book reviews including: Outwitting History, I Am Charlotte Simmons, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, and The Power of Nice. All are worth reading.

In the category of blindness-related subjects, I have discussed the following: I posted about a lawsuit brought against Target for having an inaccessible web site. I mentioned a talking pill bottle and talking menus. I explained that I had been chosen along with 99 others to participate in the NLS Digital Download Project. I am debating with myself whether I should now withdraw to let another person have a shot at trying out the downloadable books. (I’m so scared I miss something.) I discussed a blind painter and how baffling that seems to me. I delved into the Concierto de Aranjuez and its blind composer. I also did an interview with the publisher of Choice Magazine Listening—it’s the service that produces a bimonthly magazine for the blind and print challenged that consists of articles and fiction taken from other magazines and read onto two 4 hour cassette tapes. Last October I touched on my job search. I had applied for a position that came open at a library serving a blind population. I did not get that job. (SURPRISE!) I explained that I would not be producing audio segments after October 2006 because the web host did not plan to continue the service that allowed me to phone in 5 minute segments. There was more. Take a look over the past year in the archives section.

Recently, I have been thinking about the future of this blog. I have had some health concerns and am wondering where the blog phenomenon is headed. It seems that as more and more people blog and continue to create content, we all become drowned out by others’ louder and cleverer postings throughout the blogosphere. (My attempts remind me of a firefly circling a supernova.)

IMAGINE That!

Thank you for visiting Blind Chance this past year. Check back to learn where this blog is headed.