I like to think of myself as an up-to-date, techie sort of guy. I like to keep track of the latest inventions and technological trends. After all, I started blogging when blogging was in it’s infancy, and I’m reliant on technology to communicate and move around. Lyn was broadly the same. The thing is, there is a recent innovation that I’m not on track with at all: I have never used a QR code. Truth be told, I’m not entirely sure what they do. Of course, I’ve seen them about: they are all over the place these days, and seem to be becoming more and more ubiquitous. I know you have to scan them to access some kind of information or website, but because I can’t physically use the camera on my Ipad – ie I can’t hold it up to scan the code – I’ve never been able to use one. Nobody has shown me what they do, so I’m not even sure what kind of info they supposedly access: they just look like odd black and white square patterns. QR codes thus remain something of a mystery to me; one which seems to be cropping up all over the place, but which is totally useless to me. New technology can often be exciting, fascinating stuff, provided you are able to access it. It strikes me as odd that something now so widely used is as useful to me as a chocolate teapot.