The better mousetrap. Just when you don't need it.

Someone always seems eager to build the better mousetrap. It certainly wouldn’t be good news to all the mice were it not that the term is used mostly as a metaphor. But people are striving to improve objects, to make them better, to come up with an “improved” version. All kinds of reasons exist for the need to improve but one with a cynical mind would suspect money is a great factor. It does seem that way with the “wares” of computers. You know–hardware, software, underwear. Well, who knows if computers have undies but perhaps you get the point.

Every year or so some tech company comes up with an improved version of this or that. Look at Microsoft. You got your Windows, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows to the World, Dirty Windows and Closed Windows.

But something as simple as Yahoo Mail. It’s been the same for thousands of years in Internet time. Now they are getting around to improving it, to change it. And wouldn’t you know that change has to take place at precisely the time you most need that little piece of technological wizardry to flawlessly perform the mission that it has done so well for so long? The problem is that you have to take time now to learn, or retrain, as to how it functions.

Maybe someone will come up with a better version of time. That’s it: Time 2.0. It sounds downright techie.