This Is a Journey, Not a Mentoring

Having a blog where one reviews stuff, one might presume some expertise on the part of the reviewer. I've spent time from the days of drive-ins watching movies, but that certainly doesn't make me an expert on movies. What I provide in a review of a movie is nothing more than one person's opinion.

I got my first laptop maybe 17 years ago and have proceeded to do unspeakable things to the poor bastards since. I've learned how to dig deep into Windows, edit the registry, setup tcp/ip stacks, get a computer infected and deal with undoing that damage. I'm by no means an expert on computers, but I've delved further into them and the online world of servers than the average Joe.. uhm, no pun intended.

Now here's this mobile internet world. I've had an Android tablet for a few years and mainly used it for reading pdf files and limited internet. I didn't delve into it like I did laptops. When I needed to use an Android device for internet, these Android browsers were still something different to me that I have to learn. They're not as comprehensive as browsers I use on Windows, but they are different enough that it's like first using a laptop all over again; "oh, if I do this, that happens, huh."

In doing app reviews on this blog I'm not presenting myself as an expert but as someone who is learning as he goes. My 'annoying' tendency, as some would call it, to not accept at face value what is handed me but to investigate it further has led me to try many different apps. Like probably 30 web browsers by now; and along the way I've run into the good, the bad and the ugly among them.

What my inquisitive nature spawns from I do not know. I've always been obsessive to a degree. Also back in high school and shortly after I did work as an electrician, anybody who has done work as an electrician has experienced the joy, sarcasm, of several hundred volts coursing through them. Replace every outlet in a room and find the one that is wired on a different circuit. Or that person who swears they shut off the right breaker. You learn fast to check things out and double check before you commit yourself to a job.

That inquisitive nature now extends to Android devices and the mobile internet. My app reviews and experiences with Android and mobile internet are part of a learning process drawing on past experience with computers, Pocket PCs and webmastering, and delving into new realms with a 'safety first' inquisitiveness. Electrocution ain't no fun I can tell you and neither is accepting things if you can change them to make things better. Checking things out before I commit myself might seem like overkill to some, but it may help both of us avoid a shock.