Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

Weeding through old paper files, went through employment records and came across this blast from the past, kind of dates when basic IT skills became a requisite for most jobs:

It was a voluntary thing to do the course, but of course you were expected to have the skills anyway. When it was offered to me by the Institute of Public Administration I thought it sounded so Mickey Mouse I initially turned up my nose at it. A vehicle driving license, a pilots license all familiar concepts… who the heck drives a computer, ffs? Who thought up of this title for a certificate which indicates you’ve covered the basics of Microsoft Office and Windows? Surely “European Certificate of Computer Skills, Level 1” might have been more appropriate.

A relative of mine was first prof of computer science in this country, they had a pop-up museum of all the stuff he had in his possession when TCD started honouring him following his death. I used to laugh at the ECDL title with him, kind of teasing him about being complicit in the title. He never had a Luce se of any kind as he was totally inept when it came to attempting to learn driving!

It has. Even in the news re Elon Musk’s Twitter, he’s doing his mischief with it. I know I’m finding it hard to get relevant stuff up. I have my “main” “myself” account, I have my “travel” account, and my parody accounts. I go look for tens ant tweets I might be genuinely interested in through my main account, I find it littered with sport which I have zero interest in. Then I switch into a parody account, and I find it filled with feed from tech & general news & lots I’m interested in, and my instinct is to quickly respond to tweets I see I am at least interested in. Then realise I’m replying via Dee Forbes parody 🤷‍♀️

Then I might delete, try to go to main account and find that sane tweet to respond to maybe without success unless I were to spend next while dedicatedly searching for it.

Re Elon, as Gaybo would have said, de heat on de valves do be getting too much.