The way I would approach this is to kindle their imagination to build stuff. If in the process of building that thing, they need to use software then have them learn programming. If it requires them to use hardware, introduce them to Legos, hardware kits. If your kid wants to use colors and a canvas to bring alive their imagination, so be it. Be the enabler.
"The lack of proper monitor is never the sole cause of a problem, but it’s often a serious contributing factor."
I am continuously amazed that downtime issues go undetected until a) customer notifies you b) things go downhill and alarms are blazing. Our central principle is that monitoring and alerting has to be part of your deployment. The way we apply at my work place is that every design doc has a monitoring section which has to be filled out.
It was a perfect business that didn't get the timing right. Their business would have thrived during 2000, 2008. Now if they lasted a few more months, they would have been perfectly positioned to take major market share in the Fall 2015 recession.
I have moved on from Comcast almost an year ago and I couldn't have been happier to with my current ISP, frontier. The pain I endured while paying Comcast my top dollars make me wish that they face a similar demise like Blockbuster, B&N and others.
