Seven Technological Acts of Mercy
I wanted to thank everyone who’s been participating. Mark, I apologize if I was a little heavy-handed in the loan thread — you brought up some good corrections to Jen’s article in terms of pricing, but I wanted to err on the side of standing up for Jen since it was her first post here and I wanted her to feel welcome now that the Internet comes on computers.
I also wanted to thank all the colleagues who stopped by recently with many an encouraging word. Did you know that encouraging a blogger is one of the seven technological acts of mercy? Why aren’t those listed in this article, I wonder? It covers the corporeal and spiritual acts.
Probably the reason is this: They didn’t have nerds yet when they made up those lists. At least, they didn’t have nerds as we know them today.
Well, no matter, here for your convenience are the Seven Technological Acts of Mercy:
- Encouraging a blogger.
- Teaching C++ to a Visual Basic programmer.
- Correcting the misinformed without recourse to a heavy rock.
- Forwarding that email that someone else should see.
- Stepping through it in the debugger.
- Reminding someone to save their work periodically.
- One way links.
Happy Friday. No biting!
