In Technology’s Dog House
Been having major server problems, with outages, missed emails, and the like, culminating in my box going down while reviewing some work with a client (embarrassing!). Technology has not been good to me this week. Hopefully it’s been all fixed, and I am now sitting on a faster server to boot.
One of my pet peeves about technology is when it glitches after a period of reliability, with no changes to infrastructure. It just drives me up the wall. Server glitches, sometimes my Harmony remote doesn’t switch to the right input, sometimes my Media Center box doesn’t come out of standby correctly, sometimes Outlook doesn’t recognize contacts, etc.
We use tech as a mechanism for stability in our lives, and have freakouts like Rachel Bilson in Chuck whenever technology goes wrong. In my day-to-day life, I would rather take a product that performs a basic service that does 50% of what I need it to do, 100% of the time, than something that does 100% of what I need it to do only 50% of the time. That frees me up to work on other things as opposed to having to try to troubleshoot something that should have worked in the first place.
Application development is a different story - maybe more of that later.