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Playing with Google Wave…

By Sara on October 28, 2009

By now you’ve probably heard of Google Wave. It’s a new “collaboration tool” from Google designed to replace email some day… or something like that. Right now, to me, it just feels like a cross between threaded instant messaging, a multi-user forum, email, twitter, a chat room… I’ve used instant messaging (IM) for years and years [...]

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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Small Businesses

By Sara on October 21, 2009

There’s been a trend developing over the last few years to offer software applications that you can use from just a web browser. I’m typing in one right now, WordPress. GMail is another. They have gotten very sophisticated in recent years. Quite a few benefits are provided too. The software is constantly upgraded without your [...]

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Video

By Sara on October 16, 2009

This video made me smile. It’s good to see people in the Deaf community talking about their CI experience. Warning: I just learned 3 or 4 HINT test sentences from it… but now that I have a CI I can hear them anyway. Gallaudet Professors Josh and Sam Swiller received their cochlear implants…

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5 Months with a Cochlear Implant, Music and Lectures

By Sara on October 2, 2009

First things first.  Music with my cochlear implant is way way beyond my expectations. But I had pretty low expectations. Seriously, music sounds great now (5 months from activation).  The CI adds a whole new layer of sounds that I couldn’t hear before.  It helps bring out the lyrics.  It adds the higher frequency percussion, cymbals, [...]

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I'm a 30-something year old girl originally from upstate NY and now living in central Virginia. My background is in mechanical engineering and I worked full time as an engineer for 8 years. In 2010 I quit my job and started a laser engraving business.

I lost my hearing at age 14 and have been using hearing aids since then. In April 2009 I received my first cochlear implant. That went really well so in December 2009 I got the second. The CIs are what prompted me to start writing publicly - but I try to cover other things as well.

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