I'm not really an IT person. I've decided that I'm really an IS person. I know just enough tech (read computers and virtual fill-in-the-blank) to be dangerous. As a bean-counter at heart, I'm really about information systems. Of course, they are inexorably linked, especially in the 21st century.
I am fascinated by information flow. In the olde days (and now only at the drive-up tellers), information moved quickly via pneumatic tubes. I remember those days. I remember the telex machine. The day I first sent a fax that would appear simultaneously on the other side of the world, I was astounded! Twenty-five years later, I was blogging from Italy.
Once upon a time, I could actually write code. Unfortunately (?), Fortran is as dead a language a Latin or Koine Greek. I could write a Lotus macro, but only did so out of necessity (why would you need to write an Excel macro?).
I try to keep up, but sometimes my fingernails get tired. I need help. I need technical people around me. I am their biggest fan.
