Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Backlog and the Age of Technology

Have you ever come back to work after a vacation to find your desk or inbox filled with assignments and job orders which should have been completed if you had been working at them everyday? Or maybe you've been so concentrated on a particular project that you somehow neglected to pay attention to the other aspects of your busy life? Or perhaps the internet connection to your workplace malfunctioned for a week and you had difficulty finding the same speed quality elsewhere?

Me! All the above!

You'd think with all this new technology -- computers, laptops, touch phones, bluetooth, internet, blogging, etc. -- life would be a lot easier than it was maybe, 10, 20 or even 30 years ago? Na-uh! It's actually more complicated than you think!

Coz now, there's Farmville on Facebook, Tweeting on Twitter, Surfing on Google, Questions on Yahoo and Online Shopping Carts. There's so much you can do while sitting in front of a PC -- you can write a letter, compute a table of formulas, make a movie, develop a website, chat with friends and challenge the world to a card game... All at the same time!

So if you decide to take a break, even for a day; or burn the midnight oil to finish a project; or are suddenly cut off from the world through no fault of your own... All hell breaks loose, because when you sit back down in front of the computer, the whole world asks, "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN???"

... humbly signing back in after 9 days of home-based internet blackout

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