Baltimore Sun: It's Not Easy Being a Techie

by , 8:00 AM EST, November 24th, 2003

You work all day at your high-tech job fiddling with computers, trying to wrangle them into submission, bending them to your will so that some productive work can be accomplished. At 5PM (if you're lucky enough to get off on time) you head home. What do you do there? You wrangle with computers.

You are not alone. The Baltimore Sun's Scott Dierdorf feels your pain and has posted an entertainingly accurate view of the wants and needs of the modern 'technophile'. Here's a peek at the article, Digital drugery:

I know who you are.

You have a computer, maybe two. You have an iPod, or you lust after one. You don't just have broadband - you need it. You know the difference between WiFi and FireWire. You have a digital camera and a photo printer, and you use them. You know how much hard drive space you have left.

You're a technophile.

Computer companies need your money, advertisers need your eyeballs and neighbors need your help setting up their AOL account. You're uniquely positioned to understand and use the technologies that are coming to dominate our culture, and I'd like to ask you a question: is it worth it?

Read the full article at the Baltimore Sun's Web site.

The Mac Observer Spin:

Yeah, we feel ya, Scott; maybe not to the extent you've described, however. The system of your dreams, something that just work, does, indeed, exists; it is called a Mac. You might want to take one out for a spin.

Even we Mac owners find ourselves fixing routers, futzing with shared folders, and contemplating the cause of some strange system failure on occasion, and we do tend to help our less fortunate Windows-using neighbors; so we know where you are coming from. Our added frustration is that often the problems we see wouldn't be a problem if the person would have bought a Mac.

Makes you wonder why Macs aren't more widely used.

Digital drudgery