This blog comment is related to Olga Caprotti's blog entry "Mission Accomplished."

We are in the business of advancing the use of information technology in education. At times I feel that this is a Mission Impossible.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM) explains the abbreviation RTFM as “Read the Fucking Manual” and lists almost 40 equivalent expressions like GLOG for “Go Look on Google.” The multitude of such abbreviations simply tells us that people do not have the patience to learn before starting to use computers. I almost never read the booklets entitled “Read This First” when opening a package and starting to use a new computer or other similar device. I assume that it will be self explanatory, and that I will be able to use these devices right out of the box.

If I see that there is technology which may substantially help me in my work, I go to all sort of extremes to use it. Now this is about podcasting. After having spent couple of days trying to create podcasts of my calculus lectures using a Windows computer, I finally gave up and bought myself a Mac couple of hours ago. This is the first piece of text that I am writing with my Mac.