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Monday, November 26, 2012

Dimmed

As the nice people at Google were kind enough to bring out an update for the Android Blogger app I ought to test it out.

It's nice having dimmer switches for the lounge lights. Subdued lighting while watching a movie is a good thing. I remember, a long time ago, there was a little boy whose mind was completely blown when he first encountered dimmer switches. That such a thing might be possible, that someone had thought of it and that it was in homes. That it was in people's homes!

And now the little boy has grown up. He lives in a house with dimmer switches. He watches movies on a computer he can carry around and has a telephone that's a small computer itself. Using that telephone, he can write in a diary that's stored somewhere he can get at it from anywhere and choose whether to let no-one else read it or to let everyone else read it. Everyone. Writing in the third person, on a telephone, by the light of a dimmer-switched bulb. Crazy.