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The weather is currently warm and humid. I'm listening to Beatles-A-Rama on iTunes and romanticizing with those long ago yesterdays that seem like only yesterday. In short, I'm full of myself and will, yet again, blog-out my thoughts (having nothing to do with nostalgia).

Through a series of twists and turns and assorted delays, I arrived relatively late in the personal computer world. Being a quick learner (especially when desperation demands it), I've attained a reasonable pc know-how and could boast a better-than-moderate level of experience.

However, this techhnology that came upon us over the past 10 or 15 years (or even less and sometimes "overnight") is truly astounding. A person would have to be very young (under 30, at least) to take computers for granted. The range of computer hardware and software, ever-growing in complexity and variety as competition grows, is making an already complicated technology even more complicated and uncertain. Should I go with a laptop or desktop? What monitor to use with this tower and what keyboard and mouse to use with either? What, among the seemingly hundreds of security devices, does one use? These and numerous other questions have everyone (especially those of my age) in a state of perplexity.

Computer literacy, today, involves not only how to work and maintain a computer, but a technological savvy that enables one to sort through the tons of hardware and software competing for our business. While Windows still stands as both the actual and mythical king of the hill, competition (something that MS hadn't worried about earlier) is forcing it to market more "revolutionary" software (like Vista) and adding ever more confusion to the confusion. What next?

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