Something is always breaking. Something works one time and not the next. Some gratuitous graphic must be created and inserted. We must put everything on line, upload and download files, help people to access them. We buy new hardware components every two years to support all the new, irresistibly compelling software.
Harbingers step forth who blare their approval.
Surely no ear is whole amid this noise, yet the machine-part still asks for our praise. Since all its strength is from us, let it, desireless, serve and remain. I think I've been had. Diane Fisher Miller works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in the Mission Operations Section. She now spends most of her time developing web sites, both for internal information distribution and for public outreach.