Yes, it’s been six weeks since my last installment in this exercise. Bad blogger! Bad Blogger! But I have been keeping busy and creative, obsessing about getting the new website up before Labor Day. So here’s how I overcame my “creative deprivation” that I described in my last post:
Adobe CS4 would not re-install on my computer and Adobe tech support had abandoned me…completely. My only option if I wanted to get back to work was this: buy a new computer. I could scarcely afford a new machine in this economy, but I was left with no choice. And that’s what I did. Got up and running in the typical 10 days that it takes to get all the little apps to fire as desired, and then I got back to work. This is a disposable society on so many levels.
Finishing the website has been a learning curve of the steepest order. Flash is a bitter mistress, often the source of great confusion resulting in utter humiliation. I persevered, I suppose, by accepting my ignorance and compromising on some of the bells and whistles. Plain and simple: I am not a coder and find the whole affair to be repugnant. But I do much admire those who can deal with it. Geeks have created a language that runs everything in the world, and only geeks can understand it. So what does that tell you about who is really in charge around here.
Okay, a lightweight post, but enough for now.
Tags: adobe, creative, cs4, Geeks, technology, website design
Thanks for making us website lightweights feel at home. Isn’t funny that once you think you have finally mastered a foreign language (I studied fortran, “C”, latin, and french) no one uses it any more. The Geeks have invented yet another language (”FLASH”) to keep technology rolling to it’s highest level, and thank God for that and them.
In short, I recognize that the older I get the less patience I have to learn anything new, and like hangovers, the learning curve seems to get longer and longer. At least I can hire someone for my website now (even though cash is in short supply), perhaps that will make me drink less. CHEERS!