I love technology.  I expect most people who've ever met me or read my various doings on the internet will have understood this by now.  I love stuff and gadgets and computers and electronics and electricity and radiowaves.  Give me a gadget and I can use it, give me some software and I can work out how to use it and understand how it was written (kind of).  I have taught people to use technology with a passion only a true believer can have.  

The problem is that that is all I am: a believer.  Even though I get physical things like cogs and wheels and some non-physical but logical things like software, I don't REALLY get the radio waves, the electric pulses, the nanosecond changes between the 1s and 0s, nor do I REALLY get sub-atomics, or chemistry at atomic level.  I understand how they work, I understand the theories, I can sit through 1970s Open University programme with beardies doing their physics and see where they're coming from (that's how bored I used to get, to be able to sit through fifteen minutes of that).  I know that they're in there, out there and all around my gagdets, but I don't REALLY.   I understand it because I take a huge leap of faith and have to believe in atoms, sub-atomic particles and radiowaves.

It's rather like believing in faeries (and NO).

HUGE DISCLAIMER:  Please don't take this post as a metaphor, taking electricity as god and radiowaves as the love of jesus.  cos it ain't.  nor faeries.

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written by Daddy papersurfer , August 21, 2008

If you can understand that a circle of i

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written by lucy , August 22, 2008

well, duh. that´s just obvious.

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written by Daddy papersurfer , August 22, 2008

What´s more difficult to understand is w

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written by Dave R , August 26, 2008

Nice picture.