I remember the day I was 1st introduced to a computer.

Of course, being 54 years old, I never grew up with one and my wife and I don't have kids, so my contact with one was rare and my use of one was zero. I worked as an engine reconditioner at Watson Racing Cams for 7 years and that period of time coincided with the computer boom for home and small business use, so I didn't need to use one for work either.

I bumbled through life without needing one for a few more years until one day my wife came home from work with a car load of computer bits. The place where she worked had upgraded and we became the proud owners of a '386' desktop computer. I was scared sh#tless of it and it sat in our spare room for years with a plastic computer cover on it.

Until....

I had relaunched my sporting career and was getting some assistance from the A.I.S who were heavily into the use of heart rate monitors, which I found extremely useful. The coach started asking for all my heart rate details and just expected that I knew how to download the HRM and print the graphs. I had no idea what he was talking about, let alone that the HRM could be connected to a computer. He was insistent that I must send him all my training data and I didn't even know where the 'On' button was on the computer (or that my '386' was already a dinosaur!)

Obviously I've made a bit of progress, but there's still a lot about these things that scare me.....