-Technology and all that jazz-


Having got my head around to making this blog (a truly heartbreaking work of incomparable genius, this), I find:

(1) a PS2 completely baffles me (unable to locate eject button, did not turn power on first either);
(2) I cannot access my answerphone (I was dialling the wrong number for it); and
(3) a tin opener is a complex tool (using wrong side of the cutter).

After losing half of my contact book memory in my mobile phone (tossed carelessly onto wooden floor, broke into three pieces), I thought to myself, 'sooner or later I will lose what marbles I have left and I'll qualify to join the Luddites'. But it turns out modern day Luddism doesn't really appreciate people like me who use computers in their leisure time. I cursed to myself while reading this little piece on Neo-Luddism - 'bunch of contrary fascists' I think were the exact words - but have now given up hopes of finding any principle to support my cause. I suppose this means I have to just face up to reality - I am incompetent, and will remain so as long as machines and tools retain their power of detect the whiff of latent dread emanating from my pores.

With all this loser mentality going on I started to think that perhaps life would be a lot easier without all this technology. But then I reminded myself of all the good things that have happened because of it - I can keep in touch with all my friends and family despite moving so much over the past two years alone - and decided I should really, really study for my retake of the driving theory test. Yes, I failed that, too.