By tram you mean streetcar, right? That's cool, though(: I'm trying to get my 4 year old neighbour started with computers. She's getting along very well with a mouse and can almost colour between the lines now(: She has successfully mastered chosing colours, and can (55% of the time) manage to get the back button on the browser. Hopefully her mom won't put her down too much if she tries to do more later... We tries. ~ wirren > > Yesterday, I was sitting on a tram heading into town. It's school > holidays here, and a couple of teenagers - female - sat beside me. > > I spent some of the trip listening to them matter-of-factly discussing > computing, the chronic viruses on the school computers, the means they > use to combat that, their home computers and the problems they're having > with them, the means they use to combat _that_....... > > They weren't geekish girls. Their other discussions involved > traditionally 'teenage girl' topics. But they matter-of-factly discussed > medium-deep tech things. Their underlying automatic assumption was that > _they_ would be the ones who solved technical hassles in their lives. > > How _WONDERFUL_! I was walking on clouds all day. :) > > Jenn V. > -- > "Do you ever wonder if there's a whole section of geek culture > you miss out on by being a geek?" - Dancer. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jenn Vesperman > http://www.simegen.com/~jenn/ > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > issues mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/issues > > End of issues Digest _______________________________________________ issues mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/issues
