Its been a few weeks between posts.

Mostly making incremental improvements in the base that was put up a couple of weeks ago.

Well, some might call them incremental.

At times like this, when I come up for a breath of air from putting additional functions in the base layers of ButtonOS, I do a bit of a reality check.

Is this really something that is different enough from what else is out there to warrant all of this work?

As usual there are a couple of nagging doubts. The chief among them is If this was so great why hasn't it been done already?

The answer that keeps coming up is: It just has never been the time. One or more parts required to make this a workable solution has always been missing.

Ease of use has been a holy grail of the computing world probably from near its inception. Our current place in the journey from the past into the future places us at a point where at no time in the past have computers been as easy to use as they are today.

The engineer always asks the question Can it be better? In order to understand how to improve the ease of use you need to ask Are there any areas that are a thorn in the side of a great number of users? and Is there a way that todays technology can be leveraged in order to alleviate the pain?

I ask myself those questions. I also ask Is that potential pain killer being left on the shelves, as opposed to being distributed to the pain suffers?

And the answers are yes!

Stay tuned for more.

Its getting down to the wire here.

As usual for these things there are some things that are show stoppers, and a few things that are "really would likes".

We look pretty good from the show stoppers point of view. and that will gate whats gets done out of the nice to haves.