Tech Simple

I have been in so-called high-tech for more than 25 years, and I’ve worked with labor and time-saving software and hardware—and I’ve wasted a lot of time, too, often laboring long days and weeks with little to show for it outside of that ephemeral favorite, the wisdom of experience.

This blog is my celebration of the adage: Keep it simple, stupid. I intend to apply this discipline to technical challenges low and high, in a way that's both clear and entertaining.

We all have to find ways not only to understand the technology that surrounds us, but to bend it to our will, to be masters of our time and talent, and protect our most valuable asset: our time.

Welcome to you, I hope you find the information I post here useful.

Monday, February 9, 2009

How to Shovel a Driveway with a Snowblower

We make work for ourselves misusing lower forms of technology, too. Time and energy clearing your driveway steals precious time away from the off-hours overtime you want to spend solving computer network glitches at work via your remote home office desktop.

Please note: this post does not apply to those who do not experience snowfalls. Nor does it apply to those who use human-powered shovels.

If you use a snowblower, you know you should first shovel down the middle of your driveway, right?

No matter where we begin our task, some of the snow—maybe most of it—will fall short, on as-yet-un-shoveled portions of our driveway, particularly if we have an economy model costing a mere several hundred dollars—which still doesn’t fit in the garage unless you collapse the handle, a nuisance on the coldest days when shoveling is most urgently required.

But if we drive our snowblower down the middle first, and work our way outwards towards the driveway’s edges, at least we’re not blowing snow on areas previously addressed.

Glad I thought of it. Actually, honestly, I’m glad my wife thought of it.

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