James Drogan

A month ago my wife and I traveled to the Midwest for a reunion of my high school class.  In my kit I had packed a new iPad intending to see whether it and I could develop a meaningful, working relationship.  I had previously blogged about the acquisition of the device in Yep, I Have One.

The title of this post is from a presentation I did some time ago. In A Small View of a Possible World I raise the question whether being always on, always connected, always transacting  is a good thing.

Here, as you can see, I'm wondering whether it is even possible.

The only browser available on the iPad is Safari.  One of the important sites I visit on a regular basis is the Norwich University School of Graduate and Continuing Studies Virtual Campus.  The reason for that is explained in Back to School.  Unfortunately, this site requires Firefox.  So, while I can, from the Midwest, be always on and always connected, I cannot be always transacting.  There are other sites that have the same preference for one browser or another.

The browser wars continue and the collateral damage is at the user level.

Now I admit to increasing technological naiveté, but I'm not, on the whole, too shabby in this regard.  Perhap there is a fix for this of which I'm unaware.

The lesson here is that claims of connectivity need to be verified.  And the onlye way to do that is to do that.