Learning Curve

Getting a blog up and running is probably kindergarten stuff for most of you, but we're having more trouble behind the scenes than you'd imagine getting BorgBlog launched.

A foreshadowing came the other day when my buddy Bruce dropped into my office and said, "My wife and I had to laugh when we saw the computer in the cartoon you drew today." He was referring to a cartoon of a kid writing thank you emails and sending them out en masse. The kid was seated in front of a monitor the size of a Barbie dollhouse. "Do you realize that computers don't look like this anymore?"

My eyes panned over to the computer on my office desk which is, if anything, bigger than I'd drawn it.

Somehow back in my little hobbit hole at the Enquirer, generations of newsroom upgrades have passed me by, and when we tried to blog last week my screen wouldn't even show a blog, much less let me create one. Our wonderful Systems folks were called in one by one and each assumed the same puzzled stance in front of my computer, arms akimbo, hand on chin, staring. In me they had discovered the technological equivalent of the Japanese soldier still fighting WWII from an island cave decades after VJ Day.

Why was I still running OS 8.6? Because no one had told me otherwise.

From my computer at home I'm able to post verbal additions to the blog, but getting sketches up seems to require an act of Congress. IT is helping me post until they can "build a new computer" for me today.

That conjures up images of its own. I'm imagining wire coat hangers and ET satellite dishes, my little MASH unit trading cans of spam for keyboards. Sketchbook pages will have to wait for a day.