There a class of tasks that drive me to distraction, and that’s when I am obliged to execute them myself, in the full knowledge that a computer could do them better and faster. These tasks are manual, require little mental or physical effort on my part, are dull and monotonous, and achingly time-consuming. Most frustrating is when I have to do them using a computer. I can feel it laughing at me, as it watches the great big jelly brain stooping to repetitively click on buttons with those big dumb meat fingers. It *knows* how to programmatically activate those buttons. It just refuses to let itself be automated.
