Why?

Blog. What an ugly word.

Like a beautiful ballet dancer in a garage mechanic’s overalls. Not that I have anything against garage mechanics’ overalls but there’s a reason why ballet dancers don’t wear ’em.

Words can be beautiful or lovely or apt or intimate or ordinary or nasty or ugly. Ugly’s the worst.

But that’s what this is called so we have to live with it – or ignore it.

Instructions keep popping up telling me to start writing or type, followed by a / which I take to be another ‘or’. Well I am typing. And I keeep being instructed to choose a block. I don’t know how to identify a ‘block’ (other than a block of wood or a group of buildings in a city) and I can’t see any – so how can I choose one? There is also an irritating, rectangular shape filled with odd symbols drifting about on the screen – what should I do with that?

Why does almost everything to do with information technology have to be so complex? or, why am I so stupid that I can’t instantly understand what’s happening/required on the screen?

I hope the other members of our writers’ group can come up with a blog worthy of the name.