What it means to be a TechnoDolt®™©

From time to time I get emails scoffing at my professed computer-related ineptitude.

On such occasions I like to give a practical lesson demonstrating just what it takes to be comfortable down at the lowest depths of the technical food chain.

Today's a good day for an example, methinks.

Did you know that for years I didn't link books and movies and whatnot mentioned in bookofjoe to Amazon because I believed with all my heart that by doing so, when others clicked on the link they'd have the same access to my account as is displayed whenever I'm on the site from my own computer?

Only last year, when as an experiment I linked to Amazon and then used someone else's computer to click on the link and saw — to my wonderment — that the page that came up on had nothing to do with my account, did I begin to directly link there.

True.

So get off my back about how I'm being silly and making myself look less able than I am.

There is no there there, as Gertrude Stein said of Oakland, California, her hometown.