Slide (or need/wants)

Note to self: Slide.com This is how I saved this thought earlier today and I’m just coming back to it now. I’ve been away from mine/any computer for a couple of days and coming back to it last night/today just drives home how pedestrian my grasp of the applications is.

My techy (sp?) little brother phoned tonight. He was calling up to get my bank info. so that he could transfer $ for some games he ‘needed’ and which I had picked up for him. We started a conversation on how important computer technology had been / has become in our lives. He is approximately a decade younger than myself. Games were where he began. They are still his preferred use for computers although he can do / or figure out how to do most applications quickly. The operant word here is quickly. He jokes with me about my being back in the stone age when I don’t do online banking. He helped install the high speed internet for the northern community that he lives in. He hasn’t any interest in blogging like me, or Facebook like his wife, or any conversations on line. He wants to play. Pure play.

I began by needing to enter data from a survey contract that I had successfully bid for back when my children were babies (approximately two decades ago). The surveys went well but I can still remember the feeling of the day I spent entering most of the data only to not save it on completion. It was a sniffly walk home. Then it was necessary to regroup and tackle the task again. I want to say that times have changed.

I think of my children as young adults. One is confident around computer technology; the other I actually recently advised on how to save assignments to floppy disk instead of retyping the whole assignment with revisions from the hard copy and at a new computer location (friend’s, class, etc.)

Tomorrow, I need to tackle a podcast or slide.com application?

~ by 2aperuse on November 12, 2007.