Two things that make me happy

[andrewducker]

1) Foxmarks.  I have password synchronisation set up, so when I created an account on the Forbidden Planet website this morning on Julie's desktop and then accessed it from my laptop it filled in my password for me.  Very neat.

2) I have a subversion repository set up on berlios.de - which means the code I'm working on is now under version control.  It makes me about three orders of magnitude more comfortable to take code completely apart and put it back together - really hacking it about - knowing that I can revert to a working version at any point.  I'd forgotten how much more relaxed it makes me having a version control system in place.  Wish I'd done it weeks ago.

In fact, that second point highlights a reason I'm a computer geek, rather than one who enjoys working with electronics, or some other physical thing - I break things easily, because I like playing about with them and I'm careless.  Computers have an undo button, the rest of the world does not...

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[girl-onthego.livejournal.com]

My grandmother (who has totally taught herself how to email and look at things online, and who, along with my grandfather, is one of the most computer savvy people over 75 I've ever met) said something very similar to me over christmas - that once she realized the key to a computer is that you can back up until you figure out what you did wrong, she got a lot braver about just trying things - which, in turn, allowed her to keep trying new things until she got as good as she is with their desktop.

(These are my mom's parents who are up in Maine).

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid to even go outside without version control.

[andrewducker]

But you've made a backup!