Comments on: Confessions of a reluctant techy: books & dirt are better http://www.almostgotit.com/2007/06/11/confessions-of-a-reluctant-techy-books-dirt-are-better/ With every failure my reputation grows Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:37:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: puddlehead http://www.almostgotit.com/2007/06/11/confessions-of-a-reluctant-techy-books-dirt-are-better/#comment-454 puddlehead Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:49:25 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/2007/06/11/confessions-of-a-reluctant-techy-books-dirt-are-better/#comment-454 Hey, Almostgotit. I gotta say, it's comforting that there are others who get a bit intimidated by new technology. My job gives me a laptop, and for a while there, I refused to use any other function than MS Word. It's all I needed, and we got along just fine. But I realized that I might be missing a lot so am now taking small and cowardly steps into the techsavvy pool. It's a little awkward! Puddlehead -------- <em> Thanks for weighing in, Puddlehead! Confession is much easier when someone else will chime in with an "Amen, Brother/Sister!" Share, if you will sometime, some of the steps you've been taking...</em> Hey, Almostgotit. I gotta say, it’s comforting that there are others who get a bit intimidated by new technology. My job gives me a laptop, and for a while there, I refused to use any other function than MS Word. It’s all I needed, and we got along just fine. But I realized that I might be missing a lot so am now taking small and cowardly steps into the techsavvy pool. It’s a little awkward!
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Thanks for weighing in, Puddlehead! Confession is much easier when someone else will chime in with an “Amen, Brother/Sister!” Share, if you will sometime, some of the steps you’ve been taking…

]]> By: puddlehead http://www.almostgotit.com/2007/06/11/confessions-of-a-reluctant-techy-books-dirt-are-better/#comment-455 puddlehead Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:06:54 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/2007/06/11/confessions-of-a-reluctant-techy-books-dirt-are-better/#comment-455 I will certainly pass along the steps I've been taking, though I suspect it'll be unintentionally quite funny for my stone age tactics. I might as well torture the laptop, beat it with a rubber hose until it coughs up its secrets. I will certainly pass along the steps I’ve been taking, though I suspect it’ll be unintentionally quite funny for my stone age tactics. I might as well torture the laptop, beat it with a rubber hose until it coughs up its secrets.

]]> By: Yep http://www.almostgotit.com/2007/06/11/confessions-of-a-reluctant-techy-books-dirt-are-better/#comment-456 Yep Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:42:34 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/2007/06/11/confessions-of-a-reluctant-techy-books-dirt-are-better/#comment-456 Longing for compost... As I sit here engrossed in the guts of what is the modern database -- the buffer manager, the write ahead log, the index tree, query processors and more... My wife kindly reminds me that it could all be done in Excel. So much technology for such simple needs. It's amazing any of it works at all. ------- <em> ...or that we do! :) What's the answer then, guys? For a few to forge ahead, figure it all out, weed out the dross, and then make it accessible for the rest of us? Or does humanity in general have to evolve to the point that we all know how (and all want) to use all this stuff? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW. </em> Longing for compost…
As I sit here engrossed in the guts of what is the modern database — the buffer manager, the write ahead log, the index tree, query processors and more… My wife kindly reminds me that it could all be done in Excel.
So much technology for such simple needs. It’s amazing any of it works at all.

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…or that we do! :) What’s the answer then, guys? For a few to forge ahead, figure it all out, weed out the dross, and then make it accessible for the rest of us? Or does humanity in general have to evolve to the point that we all know how (and all want) to use all this stuff? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW.

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