March 5th, 2010
’ve just started learning to drive. Lesson three was this morning and, whilst I’m slowly getting the hang of it, I’m still a bit uncertain of the controls.
Most of the time it’s not a problem. Shifting the gear into fourth instead of second isn’t really the end of the world, although tapping the brake instead of the throttle does have the power to surprise both learner and instructor.
Pining for simplicity
This unfamiliarity with controls reminded me when I started using email for work purposes. I was perfectly confident with the technology (I used Pine as far back as 1993, but as I knew only two other people I could write to, the scope for making a cock up was fairly limited), but I really wasn’t familiar with the controls.
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Author: Ben Locker.
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