urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dyork Personal journal of Dan York - for my VoIP blog, see www.disruptivetelephony.com Dan York 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dyork:279216 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z Something like 10 or 15 years ago we got my grandmother a computer and an AOL account and I went over to her house to set it up.&nbsp; Actually, I think the very first one was one of my older computers that I no longer needed... I don't know... she's upgraded a couple of times since.&nbsp; We figured at the time that since she would regularly type out letters and snail-mail them to people, the transition to email would be pretty easy. Indeed it was and she's been emailing like crazy for all these years.&nbsp; It's been great to see first-hand the applicability of online communication to that age population and it's been admittedly fun to hear my father providing tech support to her after all the years that I provided tech support to him!&nbsp; In any event, she recently forwarded me a piece that's circulating on the Internet called "The Computer Swallowed Grandma" and included a note at the top thanking me for that introduction of a computer all those years ago.&nbsp; Down at the bottom of the forwarded message, though, were these words that I found incredibly important and true:<blockquote><em>We do not stop playing because we grow old;<br>We grow old because we stop playing</em></blockquote>Indeed!