Brain Coding

As a writer who is now heavily involved in the computer world, I see a significant parallel between writer's the write computer code and writer's that write words.

While programmers must construct every inch of code to achieve some predictable result from essentially a dumb processor that can only read zeros and ones, writers have to construct every word of a sentence that will hopefully achieve the desired result from someone that is not so dumb or predictable. And testing our writing is so much more more difficult to judge then just simply plugging it into a computer and seeing how it runs.

But as I slave over another configuration of words that I hope achieves the desired result of a software sale, I sometimes envy the programmer and their 0 and 1 world. Oh, if human beings were only that simple. But I guess the advantage writer's have is people, unlike computers, often act very illogically, and as I writer, I'm often wondering, how do I program for the human illogic.

How do I do it consistently? How do I calculate my own lack of logic?

Isn't That E-ronic

So I've just recently started my other blog on computer security for the fine folks at EBizQ.net. I started it on Monday, and two days ago, turning on my computer, it took at least three times as long for my computer to boot up, and then Microsoft was kind enough to inform me that my system had experience a grave error.

I managed to get my computer started, and since then, my system has been acting a little hinky, and runs a bit slower, which makes me think: could I have been the victim of a computer virus? Or even worse, has a hacker targeted me because of my security blog? I'm not too sure of the answer, but it isn't like I spend a lot of time in nasty back alleys of the internet, nor do I download huge files over email. But wouldn't that just be terribly E-ronic if, the day after I start reporting on nefarious computer tricks and various patches and even Patch Adams, that I fall victim to a virus.

I'm not entirely sure what happened with my computer, as I did just upgrade my ITunes, along with a few other things, but I do know that, now that I have raised my profile on the internet with my security blog, you better believe I'm going to be ramping up my computer security lickety-split.