Have we lost the ability to question? Has computing removed our ability to get the information we are really looking for?

My questions come from the complete waste of time that is search engines. We often resort to these when trying to find information but ninety percent of the time we get information that is so completely removed from what we want. The problem is search engines do a really bad job of searching.

I work for a company called Datacom and we mainly deal with corporate and government systems. As you could imagine we are mostly a Windows based support company with a few Linux/Sun machines we support.

For years I was mocked and goaded because I own a Mac but it's interesting that those idiots that mocked me are now in fact Mac owners. It's even more interesting that my manager is also a Mac owner and due to a chance meeting at the Developer Conference a couple of years ago with Dave Oliver of Renaissance Datacom is now pushing to get Apple customers. Guess who is the lucky one to be the first in the company to go for Apple Technician Training?

On Tuesday I finally got my copy of the material which took about 3 weeks to get here as it was ordered from Renaissance. Still not sure why it takes them so long to get stuff if they are the distributors here but I don't care about that I only care about getting the stuff and I now have it (still waiting on the MacBook Pro though).