Piffle-Be-Gone

We've all done it before - too many times, perhaps. Unless you've lived under a rock for the last 20 years, you're more familiar than you'd like to be with the ever unpopular Ctrl+Alt+Del. We've all done it, and we'll all continue to do it.

Why do we engage in this ritualistic right of passage on such a continual basis? Well, we're forced to... sometimes. The only alternative would be to shut the whole computer down and restart - but that could take minutes; so why not just shut down the bad process and move on.

I couldn't help but think that Bill Gates wanted to teach us all an important life lesson when he made the Windows operating system so unstable and prone to attack. It's essentially designed with a big banner that begs programmers to create a vast array of code and pray that it all works together. However, out of all the well-meaning programmers in the world, there's always someone that likes to program something that has only one purpose; to frustrate, destroy, and otherwise take up valuable resources.

Life is the same way. Each of us is born into this life with a clean hard disk and applications designed specifically for us so that we might have the best life possible. These applications are also designed to work flawlessly with other operating systems and their related programs, exponentially increasing our collective chance of success. It's a No-Lose situation, right? Right?!

Well, just like in "real life," sometimes we purposely or inadvertently download corrupt files to our hard drive which destroys previously written data, frustrates the user, and takes up valuable processing power. Each of us is our own personal computer with a specific amount of processing power - for now. It's that way by design. I couldn't help but think of all the processes running on my system; processes such as: apprehension.exe, worry.exe, mindlesspasttime.exe, etc...

I guess my point is - we shouldn't be afraid to perform a Ctrl+Alt+Del on the processes that are taking up valuable resources and slowing us down. I think we'd be surprised how many awesome applications we can handle when we aren't spinning our wheels with all the piffle out there.

Oh ya, And for all you Apple fans that think you're too good for Ctrl+Alt+Del - think again; Mr. Jobs just renamed it to "force quit." Same thang. See how universal this principle is?!