Monday, September 01, 2008

A Brave New World 1 year later.


Aug 31,2007
Don Quixote has entered the Darkside. My son the computer Geek has persuaded me to move to an Apple Computer which arrived yesterday afternoon. As I stumble along jumping from Safari browser to Firefox browser to ensure that I can post correctly to Blogger I say farewell to Windows and Internet Explorer, never looking back as I venture into the brave new world of Apple.
I will have to relearn how to navigate on the information superhighway finding the shortcuts that I knew so easily on my old system. After 15 years of PC's, Windows and Internet explorer not to mention a change from Telus to Shaw I will learn new curse words to describe this $%^&&*ing so called technological progress but I know I will emerge shortly as an Apple expert who will look disdainfully down on lowly PC users.
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks. They say once you done 'Mac' you'll never go back. (We'll see !)
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Update: Sept 1/08 Still learning new Mac tricks but I would not go back to a PC and especially the Wonderful World of Windows. I've come a long way from programing in COBOL and FORTRAN and sitting on my Commodore 64 being excited by a game of Pong or Pac-Man. There is a brave New World out there and the original computer pioneers have to keep up with the ever changing and improving technology. As I enter the first stage of CRS (Can't remember Shit), the challenge is to persevere and to use our brains to do in a couple of hours or days what these young kids seem to be able to do with in about 2 minutes of keyboarding. (Youth is wasted on the young !)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What took you long?! Welcome to Macland/Paradise! Kay S