weddings and geeks

At a wedding yesterday I met lots of blog-readers and several fellow bloggers. And, among the guests, lots and lots of computer geeks. This blog is so widely read that some people erroneously believe that I myself am a geek. This is not the case - I am in fact a rather lo-tech writer with only a rudimentary grasp on how software works. But there are these people out there who really do know what goes on in cyber space. Or so they claim, at any rate. Some of the geeks in Cambridge are really very clever indeed, and their projects are amazingly space-age. 

I love it whenever I meet a computer whizz who can be bothered to explain in plain English how this stuff works. It's like talking to people who have actually met angels - it sounds fantastic and I'm totally impressed. But then later I find myself wondering how that can really be true.

Anyway, to add to my mystical view of the world of computers, I now also have an approximate idea of how hacking works. I now have an image in my head of 258 assigend pigeon holes and a few spare ones at the end, and a naughty person misappropriating just one or two of the extra pigeon holes, upsetting the system and readdressing your mail. Or something like that. Or maybe it's really angels that deliver the messages after all.

Comments

[Matt]

I wish it were Angels, delivering mail.. and the good ones! Not that ones that fell.. lol

Great Blog, I am happy I discovered it. :)

[Craig]

Have you noticed that when you have a problem with email, you get an email-daemon in your inbox?

However the light will triumph over darkness!

[T.B. Vick]

This is so true . . . I am at best mediocre in my computer knowledge and find that when I go into my blog template its like going into a damp, dark, cave and I end up hitting every wall and falling into every dip or hole, and usually come out very bruised and beat up.

I especially like it when I try to change something in my template and I leave one tiny little html charater out and the whole blog page ends up being so distorted it seems as if I have left out hundreds of html codes. . . hmmmm. . . such little 'iotas' seem to be so important in the overall framework . . . there's some irony in that somewhere.