There was a time, back in the day, when I almost understood computers. I could write machine basic code and some other stuff. Way back then, personal computers ran on DOS - disk operating system. In DOS, if you told the computer to jump, it jumped - that’s all. It didn’t do anything else. Then along came windows. Windows was wonderful because everything was visual - almost. But, I quickly learned that if you told the computer to jump in Windows, strange things could happen - they still do.
Now I find myself involved with software that just doesn’t make sense to a grumpy old man. Computers were supposed to save time and money. As near as I can tell, they don’t do either one. Oh, sure there are so many wonderful things you can do today on a phone that you couldn’t do on the best PCs just a few years ago. And, who knows what will be revealed in the future.
But, if you get into some real task, more important than "tweeting" a message that you are on the potty, it is almost like going backward. I’m talking about using mass marketing email servers. They make perfect sense to the people that wrote the code, but to a casual user, there is no rhyme or reason. I have complained about this before and still am - it’s therapeutic. Still, I can see no reason to take almost 30 steps to forward an email. I’m beginning to think it would be a lot easier just to use the postal service.
But, I hate licking stamps.
PMO
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