209
Let's be completely fair. I don't own a scale. So the previous number was a guess. This one is real (Thanks Ponzi).
My fingers are tired from typing all day. Otherwise I would update you on Northern Voice, which was the most alive I've felt in months, and that's either sad or nice depending on how blog-centric you are.
Today I want to note about a thing in O magazine. Which I read, after I've read everything else in the world, which is often. Anyway, the first 1/2 of the mag is meta info. It's like having an about box on a piece of software that has more functionality than the software itself. At any rate, there was a "men of oprah" where those poor guys obviously were spending 99% of their energy not being weird about that. One even said something along the lines of "the people who work here are great - and not one of them knows how to upload a file to an FTP server!" Not sure how many layers to unpeel on that one. Let me try. (btw, ouchy fingers)
1) FTP IS HARD!!!! Really, if you don't do it all the time, it can be really hard. Then it can fail for no reason, the file can corrupt, there's the txt or binary to consider, mac or pc, it's out of control.
2) Computers should be easy, and the savvy person expects computers to be easy. It is actually savvy to be a luddite. Technology is there for the thing you are doing, not for its own sake. If you're shy about technology, you need to first respect it, and then show it the business end of a rolled up newspaper.
3) Why is there so much overlap between the personal improvement crowd and the technology crowd in real life, but so little overlap in the media? Which makes me think the man's comment is false... statistically how can this be so?