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Evan Erwin has a “funny because it’s true” blog entry on his site entitled Top 10 System Administrator Truths.
There’s nothing there that anyone who’s ever been responsible for supporting computer end-user doesn’t already know, but sometimes it’s good for the soul to repeat these things and commiserate with others.
“My Modem doesn’t work.”
“I think I can see why, Ma’am. Modems tend not to work when they’re not actually plugged into the motherboard.”
Flickr user scrubbles has posted a small collection of videogame advertisements from 1982 that should bring back a memory or two for those of us who grew up in the age when gaming entertainment consisted mostly of vaguely shaped blobs shooting single pixel bullets at each other.
The tech support generation and the holidays.
I’ve posted this MSNBC story last year at this time, but the holidays are once again rapidly heading at those of us who aren’t afraid of technology, yet have plenty of family members who are.