22.5.06
failures of the desktop metaphor
One evening, I sent away a smiling lady with a new PC, assuring her that it would work with her new monitor. It did. Later in the week she returned red-faced, her eyes spouting steam. She'd lost all her files. "I thought they stayed in the screen!" she screamed.
Computer salesman Dave Lee writing in the Guardian Technology section.
# posted by weierstrass @ 16:28 
