I just wish all this technology would WORK. Nothing quite works just right, from the intermittent Linksys USB Wifi dongle on my home desktop to the intermittent satellite radio in my Mustang. I spend a huge amount of time just trying to get things to work! Last night I spent two hours trying to transfer some files from one laptop to another, first over wired ethernet, then over Wifi. I finally concluded some ethernet equivalent of the fourth law of thermodynamics (”give up dude, you’re screwed”) was preventing this transfer. Even the WordPress software which powers this blog succumbs regularly to some kind of hashing error on comment submission. My cellphone charger has some kind of intermittency. My HD DVR doesn’t receive even major channels dependably. My multiple USB external hard drives are finicky. My Jaguar is supposedly cell-phone compatible — there are phone icons sprinkled through the cockpit — but the users manual says nothing about how to set it up. My T-Mobile VOIP (internet) phone occasionally goes dead. Thunderbird hangs when I ask it to get mail — but it’s okay if I just wait for the regularly scheduled fetch. My car GPS (we were talking about GPS) has bad coordinates for Alt 72 through Courtland, AL, and always gives me bad directions when I drive through there twice a week. And don’t even get me started on my swimming pool….

So, yeah, advanced technology. Bring it on.