Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Deceptively Simple

We all want things to go smoothly.

We try to avoid things too complicated and potentially confusing.

Accessing electronic content in libraries can be tough. Manipulating digital files to secure an e-book or borrow an e-audiobook is a challenge.
The content suppliers are making efforts to simplify access to that content. But for many of us it is a strange and discomfiting world.

Some things just get easier with repetition. We forget how frustrating it is to learn how to tie shoestrings or a square knot once we've mastered the skill, and the process becomes routine.
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My wife and I have the same model of cell phone, but have the access menus configured differently. We each got a "photo message" of our youngest grand-daughter at the same time this morning. One of us guessed the right sequence of manipulations to make that photo the "screen image" on one of those phones.

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