[LINK] USDAFoodSafety is using Twitter.

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> At 09:24 AM 30/03/2009, Stilgherrian wrote:
>> 'I do not consider myself old fashioned,
>> but...'
>
> Yeah, I can relate, Rachel. I'm also not a twit. Most days I think
> I've just reached the stage in life where learning another whole
> platform is just too much to ask. Of course I once felt the same
> about rss and love it now. Although I'm finding that I've signed up
> to waaaaaay too many feeds because it's so easy.
>
> I also just saw your comment about not using mobile devices. Me
> either. I do have an old style mobile, black and white even, and
> that's about it. No net connection on it. I don't mind texting, but I
> seldom call on it. It's an emergency access tool, or an easy way to
> find friends when we're meeting up someplace I don't know.

Heh - likewise.

Yet, I find it critical to have a computer that is more powerful 
than I will ever use all at one time, plus using cutting edge 
OS (Solaris 10) and the toolkits that come with it.  And in 
sysadmin world, I get to try all the latest high end stuff every month.

But the reality is somewhere a line has to be drawn where 
you can only really get on top of some of the branches in
technology, not all.

I guess what has happened is I've had to forgo the commodity 
user experience as I take on the high end - I don't mean to 
sound snobbish but that is the only way I can describe it. 
It all eats just too many cycles...

The same is probably true of people like RickW and so on.

Twitter and social networking etc is just something I can't 
put those extra cycles into, when I already have a full online 
life and a real one too ;)

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Rachel Polanskis                 Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia
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