Yes, i am a bit of a geek… Yes, i work in the technology space.. but nothing manages to wreak my day like having to work on my W-A-M setup i.e. my Windows XP office laptop, Android smart phone and Macbook personal laptop.
Of course, there is a distinct advantage to having the set-up i do ... as someone who works in an environment creating applications its a fantastic thing to be exposed to the best and worst of all that is available in these application oriented platforms. But then again, the hassles of trying to live with these does drive me wild now and again..
Its almost as if my digital space is dyslexic.. what i suddenly think of and note down on my mobile (on a fancy app that has awesome mind mapping etc), i cannot work on on the W and M machines! Worse, Mac informs me that i cannot write onto a HDD that is NTFS formatted and asks me “Do you wish to format” at the cost of losing my life’s collection of music and movies!! And of course, google and OEM who work on Android seem so completely assured that no MAC user will ever buy an Android phone that all mobile connect software made available for macs are “Lite”, crappy and near impossible to work with!!
I have moved on to sticking to plain text and pdf’s which partly solve the problem whilst unrealistically looking forward to the day when i may be rid of these and manage to work seamlessly in a W-A-M space...
PS: I am talking disconnected computing here where my work does not hang on the “cloud” yes it clears the W-A-M dyslexia a bit, still it nowhere near ‘seamless’.
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