Omnigraffle
I was trying to figure out some complicated brain things last night, and I sat down with a pen and a piece of paper and tried to make a graphical representation. I failed miserably. I went to bed not feeling much clearer on the situation than when I started.
This morning at work, I whipped out Omnigraffle, which is charting and graphing software. I transposed the notes from my scrap of paper, then started adding things and moving things, and the next thing I knew, my issues seemed totally transparent.
I was so excited I IM-ed Denny about it.
I actually don’t think of myself as that big a techie; I just embrace all the ways technology makes my life easier. This is the future, people. It may not be a flying car, but I don’t even like to drive, so I’m okay with that. I had a nightmare last night that I lost my computer and my camera. I was very relieved when I woke up and realized they were both in the living room. I don’t know what I would do without my sweet, sweet technology.
I work in a place where they’ve outlawed IM. The same place that’s routinely dealing with e-mail issues. IM seems like such a stupid-simple solution to their problems (easily 75% of the things I e-mail about could be handled by IM), but of course they’re afraid, because all they know about IM is what they see on “To Catch a Predator.”
Man, that sucks. My workplace instituted a supported IM technology specifically for intra-office communication that conveniently integrates (via Adium) with my other IM clients.
Maybe you should make a thoughtful proposal as to why IM is useful.