I hope everyone celebrating their independence has a great time and stays safe and all that but I want to get serious for a moment. I want to urge you to take a moment and be thankful for your independence. That's right, lets thank the mobile computing device that makes it all possible.
Without their tireless (battery charge permitting) dedication to un-tethering us from our desks we would never know the joy of working at another desk someplace else. Usually that coffee shop across the road, the one with the sticky tables. Ah, what a golden age of on-the-go computing we live in.
Time to give back
As well as sparing a thought today for those wifi-enabled boxes of freedom, I also urge you to give something back. Here are three ideas...
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◼ Take your laptop somewhere fun today for a change. Going to a friend's house for a backyard barbecue? Great, bring your laptop too. Going to the park with your betrothed to watch the fireworks? Perfect, your Vaio will LOVE that!
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◼ Treat your laptop today.
If your laptop is a Windows machine, give it the laptop equivalent of a pedicure (and we all love those, right); defrag it's poor tired hard drive.
If your laptop is a Mac, it takes pretty good care of itself anyway but I bet it's aluminium (or titanium if you're into classics) enclosure could do with a good spit-polish.
If your laptop is running some flavour of Linux, I'm guessing you've never been able to get the driver for that wifi card to work so you've never taken you laptop anywhere. I bet your laptop would love a trip outside. Just take it for a walk even, dude.
- ◼ Download my red_white_blue wallpaper (available for iPhone too - the mobile computing breakthrough device of 2007) so your laptop can show it's patriotic pride today as well. Yeah it was probably made in Taiwan or China, but is it's default OS language not
English (US)? Enough said.
Those who do not learn from history are a something something...
I haven't read any history books but I'm sure wikipedia will back me up on this. I'm sure that the founding fathers, after discovering America and all, weren't able to get any decent wifi coverage. You see, Starbucks was only in a few cities out west at that time and driving 5,000 miles for free wifi had yet to be invented. That's why, or a main reason why, they wrote the Declaration of Independence. They knew that although they might not live to see it in their own lifetimes, we would someday be free.
So please, be thankful and enjoy being free. There are so many of us who aren't.
