Comments on: An Oasis in the Alphabet Soup http://www.huggin.net/blog/2003/09/15/an-oasis-in-the-alphabet-soup/ raising loki in okie land Fri, 16 May 2008 19:44:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Siri http://www.huggin.net/blog/2003/09/15/an-oasis-in-the-alphabet-soup/#comment-18 Siri Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:06:51 +0000 http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=30#comment-18 Mike, Beth has a very good point here - technology is moving so fast it's impossible to keep up and learn everything overnight, but that has very little to do with intelligence (at least - I sure hope so, or I would be the world's dummest!). Personally, I think it would be so much easier to understand and learn things if the books on the subject would quit describing things in such an intricate way, making everything look much more complicated than it actually is. I find that I have to fiddle around and figure things out by myself first, then go back and read the book - then and only then will the text in it make sense to me. I'm not at all pretending to be an expert, but when things look Greek to me, I keep reminding myself of how little I knew in the beginning, and how much I've been able to understand and learn up to this point - in other words, EVERYTHING looks difficult, and at times even downright impossible, until you've learnt it! If it were easy, the fun would be gone, as would the satisfaction of having overcome the challenge.<br /> <br /> The same philosophy can be applied to your machine at work of course. There will come a day, very soon, when you'll handle all the aspects of it automatically, no reprints, no problems (and then you'll complain how boring it is :-) ). Practice makes perfect!<br /> <br /> As for hiding feelings - don't! (at least not from people you trust and really care about). Years and years of hidden feelings tend to settle elsewhere in the body, causing all kinds of physical problems.<br /> <br /> Siri Mike, Beth has a very good point here - technology is moving so fast it’s impossible to keep up and learn everything overnight, but that has very little to do with intelligence (at least - I sure hope so, or I would be the world’s dummest!). Personally, I think it would be so much easier to understand and learn things if the books on the subject would quit describing things in such an intricate way, making everything look much more complicated than it actually is. I find that I have to fiddle around and figure things out by myself first, then go back and read the book - then and only then will the text in it make sense to me. I’m not at all pretending to be an expert, but when things look Greek to me, I keep reminding myself of how little I knew in the beginning, and how much I’ve been able to understand and learn up to this point - in other words, EVERYTHING looks difficult, and at times even downright impossible, until you’ve learnt it! If it were easy, the fun would be gone, as would the satisfaction of having overcome the challenge.

The same philosophy can be applied to your machine at work of course. There will come a day, very soon, when you’ll handle all the aspects of it automatically, no reprints, no problems (and then you’ll complain how boring it is :-) ). Practice makes perfect!

As for hiding feelings - don’t! (at least not from people you trust and really care about). Years and years of hidden feelings tend to settle elsewhere in the body, causing all kinds of physical problems.

Siri

]]> By: Beth http://www.huggin.net/blog/2003/09/15/an-oasis-in-the-alphabet-soup/#comment-17 Beth Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:04:08 +0000 http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=30#comment-17 It is alphabet soup, isn't it? I learned HTML at home, in my spare time, from library books. However, now I'm in a situation where to do really cool stuff with the library website, I need to learn, CSS, XML, PHP, MySQL and if I ever squeeze it out of the budget, Flash. It makes me so tired sometimes! I don't think it's a reflection of anyone's intelligence though, Mike, I think it's that the world is moving fast, and technology faster and there's just more than there ever has been. And we both have other jobs, so it's not like we've been committing vast gobs of time to it like web professionals probably can. And come to think of it, I don't know many people who know all those things anyway.<br /> <br /> As for me, I'm a drama queen, and everyone knows everything I'm feeling all the time. I frequently wish I was a more subtle person, but I'm pretty old now, so its probably not going to happen. So there ya go. It is alphabet soup, isn’t it? I learned HTML at home, in my spare time, from library books. However, now I’m in a situation where to do really cool stuff with the library website, I need to learn, CSS, XML, PHP, MySQL and if I ever squeeze it out of the budget, Flash. It makes me so tired sometimes! I don’t think it’s a reflection of anyone’s intelligence though, Mike, I think it’s that the world is moving fast, and technology faster and there’s just more than there ever has been. And we both have other jobs, so it’s not like we’ve been committing vast gobs of time to it like web professionals probably can. And come to think of it, I don’t know many people who know all those things anyway.

As for me, I’m a drama queen, and everyone knows everything I’m feeling all the time. I frequently wish I was a more subtle person, but I’m pretty old now, so its probably not going to happen. So there ya go.

]]> By: Mitch http://www.huggin.net/blog/2003/09/15/an-oasis-in-the-alphabet-soup/#comment-15 Mitch Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:50:07 +0000 http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=30#comment-15 Don't let the CSS get you down...CSS doesn't work consistently for me too...we are still in a world where all the browsers seem to have their own way of implementing it. Also, the CSS file for this blog wasn't something you built from scratch so you are basically forced to guess what everything is for. I look forward to seeing your next attempt! Don’t let the CSS get you down…CSS doesn’t work consistently for me too…we are still in a world where all the browsers seem to have their own way of implementing it. Also, the CSS file for this blog wasn’t something you built from scratch so you are basically forced to guess what everything is for. I look forward to seeing your next attempt!

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