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Friday, February 12, 2010

Thus Spoke Zoroaster

The origin of man as a species is a controversial yet fascinating topic. Those on one end of the argument will scream at the top of their lungs that man, in amoeba form, dragged itself out of the primordial ooze and evolved into the dominant species on the planet. Then there are those on the other side of the argument who would deliver from their pulpit the words of the scripture that would have man embrace creation as the true nature of their beginning. Whatever your beliefs are, the fact remains that when it comes to technology some of us are dead in the water even when it comes to basic computer functions. Championing the cause for me, a right-brained, technologically quasi retarded individual, is Meadow Nelson. We all had to do the re-write on shared drives for Kat Ricker's English 402 class, yet compared to Meadow Nelson's re-write, mine looks like the equivalent of a monkey beating up a rotting carcass with that very carcass's femur bone. Her digital prowess splashes across the screen as she has gone above and beyond to create a very user friendly explanation in reference to sharing drives. The addition of pictures to the concise instructions is warmly embraced by visual learners such as myself. Normally computer instructions are like attempting to read Homer's Odyssey in ancient Greek, but thank the maker (or the primordial ooze), that Meadow Nelson comes through like a Rosetta Stone and deciphers the steps, effectively demystifying sharing drives, making this process approachable to those of us with much different skill sets.