Yes, I Am Technologically Challenged

I am technologically challenged.  There, I said it and its out in the open.  Pop the geek soda and call in tech support – I am not with the times.

Yes even in this day and age, when technology has not only surrounded us, but has buried us under a mountain of useless information, Tweeterings, endless status updates, IMs, text messages (Did you know my cell can text?  I don't even know how that works on it.  I barely even use it as anything more than a paperweight.), and endless piles of brand new increasingly fancier outdated electronics.

When something goes wrong I'm more lost than a GPS without a signal.

I find it slightly offensive that my computer has something called cookies and I can't eat them.  And then, it must be a conspiracy to drive us all mad, every time there is an internet related problem the first part of the fix always seems to be instructions to clear the cookies.

My first thought is always, "Are they chocolate chip?"

Then, if you've hopefully solved the problem, you have to post away (yup, baking up a new batch of cookies that you still can't eat) to see if the problem is fixed.

So you write some silly blog post about cookies you can't eat and how the world wide web is just a big cruel bully for waving them under your nose.

And then you hope you don't have to do it all over again, clearing those cookies you can't even eat.

Ok Internet, let's do the dance.  I cleared my cookies and posted a blog post, now lets see where it goes.  Will it vanish down the mysterious dark roads on the way to some ethereal internet cities?  Are there cyber cookie monsters laying in wait to strike?  Or will the update actually get posted everywhere it is supposed to?

Perhaps only that great big horrific hairy eight-legged monster residing in the world wide web will know.

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