Computers New and Old

Well, my wife just received her new computer today.  It's a Dell portable and she's very excited.  However, we've had to spend the entire day configuring it and trying to transfer files from the old computer and I'm sick of it.  Besides that, it runs Windows 7 with which I'm less than impressed.

Meanwhile, I continue to trundle along on my 6 year old Dell portable running Windows XP.  The computer is so old that I've worn most of the letters off the keyboard.  Now my wife can't use it because she doesn't touch type.  I don't care since I'm in trouble if I try to think out where a key is.  It's either in my hand or it's nowhere.  Who needs to look?

Funny the way that we've become such a disposable society.  I like to hang on to things.  They become comfortable.  I don't like change.  But at the pace that technology keeps changing around us we're almost required to throw away all our existing technology and upgrade every few years.  Me, I'm sticking with my old computer.  My wife keeps threatening me with an upgrade, complaining that I don't value myself.  But that's not true.  I just like my old comfortable world and will fight to hold onto it until my poor little portable is a smoking puddle on my desk.

By the way, my computer has one of those pencil erasers in the center of the keyboard for controlling the mouse.  I love the thing.  I've become so good with it that I can use it to do artwork on my computer.  This form of mouse control has gone out of style.  I don't want to lose my little nub.

Anyone else with me on this?

Web Pages and Such

I just spent the last several days performing a massive design update to my wife's home page.  This is pretty amusing considering that I don't even have my own home page.  Anyway, I'm pretty proud of it.  You can checkout the results at:

Melanie Jackson's Home Page

I got the inspiration from a sample of a friends home page and then took it to the n'th degree.  I'm particularly proud of the embedded blog at the end of the page that took me days to get right.  Of course, my wife likes the mouse in the baseboard at the bottom of the page.

One could spend a lot of time working on web pages.  Of course, with the number of people I know in need of a serious web page uplift, one could also make a series amount of money doing this work.

I  leave it to you, should I continue to write poor selling books or switch over to selling my web services?  Post your opinion as a comment to this blog (after all, I have no comments yet).

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