Thursday, 8 March 2012

Note to Technology - I really do want to be friends!

I thought I was so clever :)  We were going to be away for a few days so I set up my posts to automatically appear (in the blogger instructions this is called scheduling).  Very handy.  I love this feature with my online banking so I can post date a payment and then file the bill away instead of keeping it on my desk and having to remember to pay it on the day I want.

I played around with it and figured out how it worked.  At first I missed a step.  After setting up the date and time I wanted it to post on I needed to actually press the "publish" button.  When I looked in my list of blogs then it showed as "scheduled" instead of "draft"....  Aha!  I had discovered the missing link!   So, I proudly saw this work successfully and decided to do it again.

I was surprised this morning to see that my intended post for yesterday, about a great TED talk I wanted to share, was not posted :(   It was waiting there as a draft because I had forgotten one critical step - pressing the Publish button.  It was so obedient - only doing what I had asked, not anticipating what I meant to do but did not "ask" for it to do.  Once I get to be clear in what I want from technology and get good at asking for what I want I am sure we are going to be very good friends!!  I will "keep you posted" (pun intended) on the progress of our friendship :)

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