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I'm a bit ambivalent about the upcoming US presidential election but i did read something in today's paper that i hadn't heard before. Apparently John McCain (I keep wanting to call him McLean because i know a John McLean plus isn't that the name Bruce Willis' character had in Die Hard?) is computer illiterate, according to the newspaper article. The piece was about how younger voters see Obama as "cool". I'm surprised in this day and age that someone running for President is computer illiterate. It's go nothing to do with is advancing years. Loads of senior citizens i know have computers and are merrily surfing the net and sending emails and getting webcams. Very possibly he's saying that because he's not very knowledgable about what's "under the hood" (and there's nothing wrong with that) but can in fact send and email and surf the web but the article didn't go into details. I certainly wouldn't knowingly vote for someone that is that technologically ignorant in this day and age. A politician doesn't have to be a whiz kid with a computer but i figure they should at least be comfortable enough to do basic stuff. How can you lead a country into the future if you can't even send an email?

Speaking of into the future, I saw an ad for a usb flash drive that holds 16G. My first and second computers didn't have hard drives that big and as well, you can fit more stuff on a single layer dvd (4.2G) than was on my first hard drive! Pretty soon, you won't have to buy external hard drives with 60 or 160 or 300G of space, you'll just have to plug in a little usb flash drive.