Thursday, July 19, 2007

Are you a tech type?

My story starts yesterday when I was trying to get a story from another station by way of the FTP site. I know how to use the site and have on several occasions. In a perfect world knowing information will make life very easy. What should have been a very quick and easy tool was about to make my night very difficult. 

With all the equipment we have and are trained to use this really is one of the easier things…simply drag and drop what you are looking for and it’s over. After more than 2 hours of trying everything under the sun the clouds parted and it finally worked. Nothing was broken, we all knew how to use FTP site but it just didn’t like us when we wanted it to work. (Technical stuff seems to have a mind of its own sometimes.)

I often wonder how hard it was to do my job before computers and other technical stuff we are faced with everyday. I know it is suppose to make my life easier but after a night like that I am not so sure anymore.

Erin