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November 14, 2005
Jim's computer empire
As adzooks grows and improves, so does my role, though alas not my computer. Sometimes people get attached to heaps of junk that they’ve had for an extended period of time, but not me and my old eyeball melter. We work together discordantly, especially in the afternoon as the computer keeps Continental times, and so likes to sleep after lunch. Taunting me on the desk next to the computer is a big, shiny, ultra-flash iMac. Not wanting to sing its praises as I’ve never used the thing, I can at least say that it certainly doesn’t seem to upset its user, Jim the Designer, who is the calmest person I have ever met.
However, recently I been noticing how the desk opposite me seems to be empty – not because Jim’s skiving off work, but because he seems to have claimed other computers around the office to work on. As he flits from one computer to the next, I have failed to notice till now just how many he seems to use. I’m beginning to wonder whether his chilled-out demeanour is just a façade to mask his growing control of the office, through his own computer network.
Otherwise you may wonder why he uses so many different computers. Rather like how I wonder why some people post the same ad repeatedly. I guess that if you search for, say, sports equipment for sale, and see the same ad for a treadmill over and over again, that is more likely to stick in your memory than a similar thing in a one-off ad. Though the number of times the ad is posted doesn’t affect what is in the ad, it does increase its visibility. However, if everyone were to take this approach, the site would be full of trillions of copies of the same ads, and therefore not be hugely user-friendly.
So while I remove duplicate copies of the same ad and de-clutter the site, I’ll be very suspicious every time Jim asks to use my computer to ‘check something’. It’s disobedient enough as it is without being part of his sinister empire.
Posted by Selina at November 14, 2005 4:35 PM
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