Requisite Number One: Computer Literacy

I am currently employed by a company that provides web hosting for several small companies and a few large companies nationwide. We have multiple website builders for our clients to use. They are very simple and very easy to use.

Lately, I've noticed that a lot of the people using our services are not at all qualified to operate a web-based company. I'm talking about people who don't know what email is. People who can't find the start button. People that think their monitor is a "computer." Yes, I am talking about the computer illiterate.

I do not like to consider myself discriminatory against the computer illiterate. In fact, I have several friends who are quite incompetent when it comes to the basic operations of a computer. I do think that people should be able to do a few basic things. It's like cars; you don't have to know how to build a whole engine to survive in life, but it can be useful to know what the basic parts are and how they work.

If you are a 90-year old lady who has never touched a computer before, let me give you some advice: do NOT start an internet company.

UTA gets a point

The other day I was late coming out my door on the way to the bus stop. I catch the bus to work. Even though I wasn't at a stop or even on the road where the bus was traveling, the driver somehow noticed me and stopped mid-road to let me get in. That's pretty cool.