The evils of one-click

Posted by on December 4, 2009

I accidently bought something.  I recently returned to my old full-time job after a  near 2 year hiatus.  No I wasn’t just playing and enjoying life on my riches.  I was struggling while helping my wife with her graphic design business.  In the end there just wasn’t enough work for the both of us to pay the bills – and I believe she probably thought it was a good time for me to get out of the house.  I can’t blame her in the least.  I can be a moody bitch.
As part of going back to that horrid new job I decided I wanted a new Motorola Droid phone.  I’m a teck geek afterall and my old LG Dare just wasn’t cutting it.  I needed something I could SSH into servers, surf the web, check on my Facebook news feed and read email.  The HUGE screen and speed coupled with the Android OS was and instant sell for me.  Installing applications is as simple as clicking and ‘BAM’ they are there.  Unfortunately I installed the Amazon application last night after having more than a few vodkas.  Within seconds (I later realized the next day) I’d ordered not one, but two ASUS netbooks.  Uhg.  I have to either uninstall that application or turn off that one-click purchasing.
I’ve always thought my computers need a breathalyzer before they let me do anything stupid.  However regarding the netbook – I’ve been thinking about getting one for a while since they first came out.  My HP laptop workstation is just too heavy and unwieldy and sometimes I think it would be nice just to settle down somewhere and write.  I’ve been wanting to try my hand at writing again but sitting at a desk to do it just doesn’t work for me.  It’d be nice to sit out on the back patio or in the zen room without 20lbs of steaming computer on my lap to type what’s in my head – just too uncomfortable.  I might keep one just for that purpose.

I accidently bought something.  I recently returned to my old full-time job after a  near 2 year hiatus.  No I wasn’t just playing and enjoying life on my riches.  I was struggling while helping my wife with her graphic design business.  In the end there just wasn’t enough work for the both of us to pay the bills – and I believe she probably thought it was a good time for me to get out of the house.  I can’t blame her in the least.  I can be a moody bitch.

As part of going back to that horrid new job I decided I wanted a new Motorola Droid phone.  I’m a teck geek afterall and my old LG Dare just wasn’t cutting it.  I needed something I could SSH into servers, surf the web, check on my Facebook news feed and read email.  The HUGE screen and speed coupled with the Android OS was and instant sell for me.  Installing applications is as simple as clicking and ‘BAM’ they are there.  Unfortunately I installed the Amazon application last night after having more than a few vodkas.  Within seconds (I later realized the next day) I’d ordered not one, but two ASUS netbooks.  Uhg.  I have to either uninstall that application or turn off that one-click purchasing.

I’ve always thought my computers need a breathalyzer before they let me do anything stupid.  However regarding the netbook – I’ve been thinking about getting one for a while since they first came out.  My HP laptop workstation is just too heavy and unwieldy and sometimes I think it would be nice just to settle down somewhere and write.  I’ve been wanting to try my hand at writing again but sitting at a desk to do it just doesn’t work for me.  It’d be nice to sit out on the back patio or in the zen room without 20lbs of steaming computer on my lap to type what’s in my head – just too uncomfortable.  I might keep one just for that purpose.


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