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Everything is Amazing and Nobody is Happy
It is not a new video, but I saw this for the first time, and it struck a chord. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itn8TwFCO4M&feature=related Everything is amazing and nobody is happy. There is a lot of truth in this, isn’t there? How quickly we have become accustomed to the advances of technology. My daughter recently saw a vinyl single and asked what it was. When I explained that it was what we used to listen to music, she was amazed and shocked in equal measures. What? Only 2 tracks, and you have to turn it over half way through? Now she plugs in her iPod and can listen to one of thousands of tracks,…
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Technology – Help or Hindrance?
Our dishwasher is broken. It finally gave up this weekend, which was most inconvenient as we had guests. For some months now I have seen that the end was near – the wheels kept falling off the baskets and the top basket regularly fell out altogether. Our landlord visited a couple weeks ago and I mentioned the trouble we were having, and asked if the wheels could be replaced. The technician sent last week expressed his surprise at the age of the machine – I believe it is about 30 years old – and advised that it would probably have to be replaced. I nodded sagely while inwardly doing doing…
