I read a lot.  A LOT.  Technology articles on the Interweb are limitless.  Some rock the house and take me to a new level.  Others …not so much.  When being taught something in an article or in a book I love to see pictures.  I’m a visual learner so a well-structured diagram can make all the difference.  But here’s my problem; how many times have you seen a diagram like this:

What do I see?  I see something going from a PC to a server through some network whose details are otherwise unknown (e.g. cloud).  How is this diagram helpful?  What does it add to the story?  Wait, so you’re saying data is going from one computer to another computer?  Ohhhh!  I get it!  Praise Jesus for the diagram.  I wouldn’t have got that little nugget otherwise.  The time you spent creating the diagram was time well spent.  Time well spent indeed.

We can make the diagram much more technical, of course.  Check out this little gem:

A-Ha!!!  A computer is sending some data to another computer and there is a router in-between them?  Boom goes the dynamite!!!  Revalation had.  Mission accomplished.

The moral of this little story:  Diagrams are cool but if they really don’t add anything to the topic please don’t bother.  Let’s keep it useful, people.