In any matter of mind (over heart or faith), I tend not to invest fully in any one ideology or preference.
This has tended to make me the "odd user out". At the KBS lab at the Beckman Institute in


And thus my dichotomy: I am often an early adopter, eager to try new technologies; be they blogging services or IM clients, you'll find me trying them before 90% of my friends overall. Meanwhile, I am also often a late adopter, behind 90% of my friends on actually getting into the swing of using things. I lead the pack and follow the herd. Take Linux distributions: I started running Slackware in 1995, yet am still struggling with Ubuntu and Gentoo today. I just started using reliable photo management software this January, but I've been hosting photo albums for years. My Yahoo! Groups account dates back to 1999, my own USENET posts to 1993, and my saved FAQs from newsgroups to the days when e-mail addresses had bangs instead of ats in them (1987 at least).
I like computer science. Some days, I also like computers. Other days, I feel like tossing the telescopes out with the bathwater. ;-)
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Banazir