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Quirky Quirky Quirky, a word of caution

Jun 18, 2006 2:37AM PDT

Quirky Quirky Quirky, a word of caution when giving or receiving or acting upon technical advice.

People are all different. Our bodies come in all sizes, all shapes, all colors. Some have a lot of hair, others not so much. Some have big feet and small ears. Others have big ears and small beady eyes. Big eyes, flat butts or bubble butts, ONE size or style DEFINITELY doesn't fit all. And so it is with macs and Pee Cees and windoze and linux and all the various browser and email clients. We don't all get to see the same thing. it depends in part on how the rendering software works to interact. It depends also on the hardware.

ONE of the things we DO all have in common, uniformly, are these big EGOS of ours. It isn't always the other guy that has it wrong. Sometimes there is just this little glitch in our own internal programming. We need to watch out for that, compensate for that, as you maybe already know.

Software programmers/coders moderators are probably genius at what they do, but they are not able to remember to think of absolutely everything and always get it exactly correct. They do a remarkable job, considering the challenges, but this comes ''eventually'', after some or all the bugs have finally gotten worked out.

Meanwhile DON't automatically assume that because a piece of tech doesn't work out or do what you expect, that it is necessarily the other bloke's fault. We are (all of us) a beta version of what we might provisionally someday become.

Sometimes we have to think for ourselves, (as i am sure you have learned in your own life experience). i often get that part wrong at first. i am still working on getting out all my own personal bugs. i don't know, at age 72, if i will have enough time to manage to GET all those darned bugs worked out. But i continue to be optimistic.

Glass Hoppah

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