Thursday, December 11, 2003
Technology.
I love the way I can use my mind to get the best out of the technology around me. I am a very lazy person by nature, but expect to get a lot out of life. What better way to acheive this than by exploiting the technology around me.
For example, why walk into a library and spend time looking for the item that you want, when you can just type it into a terminal and find it in an instant? Why waste time waiting for the internet PC's in there to come back on-line whilst some numpty technician messes around, when you can walk 50 yards down the round and use the College PC's, which are faster and more reliable? The only thing that has let me down so far is that the College must have put a software bar on using the CD-ROM drives to listen to music CD's whilst working, bastards!
I like the fact that these College PC's are made by Compusys. This one is a Compusys Economist A865G. This may be of no significance to anyone else, but I remember my first IBM compatible PC. It was a Compusys 386 and had a 40MB hard drive. Fond memories of that time and the desk that my Dad built which fitted perfectly into the wall. It was covered in marbled grey matt lino and had a slot cut into it at the back to allow the continuous paper to feed up from the drawer unit underneath.
My mother still has the posture kneeler that we used to sit on as kids, only ours has a black cover.
Memories of a different time ...
I love the way I can use my mind to get the best out of the technology around me. I am a very lazy person by nature, but expect to get a lot out of life. What better way to acheive this than by exploiting the technology around me.
For example, why walk into a library and spend time looking for the item that you want, when you can just type it into a terminal and find it in an instant? Why waste time waiting for the internet PC's in there to come back on-line whilst some numpty technician messes around, when you can walk 50 yards down the round and use the College PC's, which are faster and more reliable? The only thing that has let me down so far is that the College must have put a software bar on using the CD-ROM drives to listen to music CD's whilst working, bastards!
I like the fact that these College PC's are made by Compusys. This one is a Compusys Economist A865G. This may be of no significance to anyone else, but I remember my first IBM compatible PC. It was a Compusys 386 and had a 40MB hard drive. Fond memories of that time and the desk that my Dad built which fitted perfectly into the wall. It was covered in marbled grey matt lino and had a slot cut into it at the back to allow the continuous paper to feed up from the drawer unit underneath.
My mother still has the posture kneeler that we used to sit on as kids, only ours has a black cover.
Memories of a different time ...
