Everyday Computing

Idling at the downtown coffeehouse before a meeting yesterday morning, I counted nine laptop users among my fellow customers. Of these computers, seven were Macs (five MacBooks or iBooks and two MB Pros or PowerBooks). Though I couldn't see what was on everyone's screens, I could tally up some heavy Googlization: of the various users, at least two were on Gmail, one was on Google Docs, and one was on Google News. That last application is the default homepage for coffeehouse's public computer - which I was the only person to use in my two hours there.


Forecast: Significant blowing and drifting, with the possibility of heavy accumulation in rural areas.