I’ve been studying to renew a lot of technical certifications lately.

You really do get better at memorizing things with practice. When I first started several months ago it took me hours to cover material I can now cover in 20 minutes.

Amazing how malleable the mind is and at the same time how inflexible in some ways.

Most browsers already are or will soon be eliminating the ability to easily see/find the URL of the site you’re accessing.

Supposedly to aid the “average user.”

I’ve dealt with “average users” for nearly two decades now. And as much as I hate to admit it, they really do have problems with URLs.

But it does befuddle me why they have so many problems with URLs. It’s just an address, like a home address, at its simplest.

For me the very first time I saw a URL having no clue what it might be, I understood it instantly. I realize I have some advantages that others don’t. Yes, but not knowing how to type a URL into an address bar? That’s a special kind of, well, special.

Not understanding URLs – not knowing how to type them nor how to read them – is these days about the equivalent of not knowing how to tie your shoes.

Another annoyance is just how many people don’t know how to copy and paste despite using a computer for 10+ years.

Yes, it’s an old rant, but incompetence of this sort bothers me as it would not be tolerated in other areas of life. It’s not like we are asking people to do programming or to build a computer from scratch. It’s more like if someone got into a car and had to be told every single time how to use the steering wheel.

Computers are not new. Too bad we have to make them horrible to use for those who actually know how to operate them so that someone with the IQ of a jellyfish polyp can click “Like” on Facebook.

The first company to make a drool-based tablet wins, I guess.