Low-tech Idiot

Believe it or not, that's what one of my professors called me in graduate school: A low-tech idiot. I'm sure he meant it in the nicest possible way. If you know me in person, you will have to agree he was on to something. (That's why I like Blogger--it's idiot friendly.)

But, I digress. My real reason for writing this entry is to tell you about a great new book I discovered. It's called The Healthy PC, written by Carey Holzman, who, incidently, is from
Glendale, where I've been teaching at the community college.

In my college teaching and my online ventures I am continually running into tech stuff I can't figure out. And I don't know what my problem is called so I can't look it up.

I have read dozens of books on technology, and taken almost as many courses, trying to enter gracefully into the twenty-first century. Finally, I have a ray of hope. This book is--without exageration--the best tool I have found yet. Holzman explains things in a way that non-techies can understand, and gives step-by-step instructions for carrying them out. He talks about things like troubleshooting and maintaining your PC on your own. Stuff like cookies, spam, and viruses are in there, along with defragging your disk. If you don't know what I'm talking about, get the book!

I'm hoping he'll come out with an updated version soon, since this one just gives info on Window 98/ME and XP.

My second motivation for this post is to try out my newest venture. I have linked to
Amazon so I can send my readers to great books related to writing. This is my first time to imbed a link, so I'm eager to see whether it works. :-)

[Geeks, feel free to ignore this post.]