"Jules" wrote in message
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:34:47 +0100, Mary Fisher wrote:


"Jules" wrote in message
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Combine a post office with a few local shops, and it's a good
reason for anyone (regardless of age) to get off their backside.

What makes you think we ARE on our backsides?

Most people don't type standing up? :P

Seriously though, Andy seemed to be implying that going to the post office
was a waste of time (when compared to doing "post officey things" online)
- I only see it that way if I'm going to the post office to do a single
chore. If I combine it with several jobs, and get to catch up with a few
people that I know in the process, then it's not a waste of time at all,
and much more rewarding than sitting in front of a screen to do things.

I agree - or watching tv.

But I don't spend much time sitting at the desk, more at the table for
meals. I don't regard that as spending time on my backside although
literally it is.


Of course, all of this is the situation *now* - give it 20 years and the
old-timers will have grown up in the computer age; they're unlikely to
remember that there ever *was* a different way of doing things.

You are obviously young.

I've been working with computers for twenty years. How long have you had?

About the same, I think - maybe a couple of years shy of that in a
commercial environment (but a few years more in a 'for fun' capacity). I
started out doing hardware repairs, then did software for a bit, then got
involved with what's now the National Museum of Computing a few years ago.
I suppose I've seen computing - old and new - from several different
angles; enough to know that it's not automatically the magic answer to
every (perceived or imagined) problem :-)

Does anyone think that?


cheers

Jules