This is not new. I hated copy machines first because we had copy machines before we had personal printers. Once we “advanced” from dot-matrix to laser and/or inkjet printers, I really started to hate them. If you are a child… Read More ›
Computers
RECHARGING MY WORLD
Everything — or nearly everything — runs on batteries. Rechargeable batteries. Laptops, tablets, Kindles, mobile phones, headphones, cameras, mouses (mice have fur and make squeaky noises while mouses attach to your computer), GPS, clocks, flashlights, remote controls, electric razors, tooth cleaning… Read More ›
THE POWER OF THE WEENIE – TOM CURLEY
You can’t use the word “p#rn” on Google because as everyone knows, Google is so carefully-regulated and selective about who publishes on their site, one need never worry about what one might see there. It’s the word, NOT the subject… Read More ›
THE NEW COMPUTER
It’s done. I actually spent the money to get it set up today. Otherwise, it would have been a week of messing with it. It’s not that I don’t know how. It’s that I didn’t want to do it again…. Read More ›
THE NEW COMPUTER
I didn’t want to do it. I don’t like setting up new computers because not only is it a lot of work, but it takes weeks before it feels like “home.” My preference is that everything I buy should last… Read More ›
WELCOME TO FEBRUARY – WORLD SHARING TIME AGAIN
SHARE YOUR WORLD 1-30-2022 January ended with the biggest ever blizzard for the month of January. We have had bigger blizzards in other months, but this one was the winner for January. Not to worry because now they are predicting more… Read More ›
THE HELL OF GETTING HACKED
Another rerun that’s strangely timely — from earlier this year (but I forgot I published it, so you problem don’t remember reading it) — this was Fandango’s Provocative Question #127 Let me start with a rerun of the post I wrote… Read More ›
CHANGES BUT NOT MANY
As I plod my way through the new Adobe applications, I’m not shocked by how much has changed. I’m more surprised at how little has changed. Considering that the most recent version of Photoshop I used is more than 10… Read More ›
CHAOS AND ORGANIZING
I absolutely needed new software if not for the tools — which aren’t very different than the ones I have from 10 years ago — but because I’ve been avoiding doing this forever. I knew it was going to be… Read More ›
GETTING HACKED IS HELL
Fandango’s Provocative Question #127 Let me start with a rerun of the post I wrote when we got hacked in 2018. Not surprisingly, it was called “HACKED.” Actually, there were two of them: “HACKED AND HATING IT” and the next day,… Read More ›
GETTING HACKED
There have been a lot of big hacks lately. Mostly these have been called ransomware attacks. They’ve hit an oil company, hospitals, electric companies. They also, rather casually, will attack anyone else they can, even if it’s for just a… Read More ›
RENOVATE A COMPUTER
I keep thinking this is my new computer, but this was belied by realizing I actually bought it in 2016 — and that my computer is so packed with dog hair and dust, the keys were sticking. The sticking keys… Read More ›
IT’S ALWAYS WINDOWS
Windows works. It a mess, yet somehow, it keeps trucking along. Because the price of a high-end PC is far less than a Mac — and anyone can build them including you — they remain “the standard” for business. Having… Read More ›
SOFTWARE IS ALL 2020. I HATE IT
I was going to hire someone to do this for me, but I simply couldn’t keep my hands off the equipment for a whole week. First, I solved a baffling problem that arose a couple of weeks ago. I couldn’t… Read More ›
NOTIFICATIONS OR THE LACK THEREOF
I get tons of notifications from my computer. I was getting so many notifications I finally turned them off. Now, I only get “urgent” notifications. Apparently the minor detail that my hard drive is full was not considered urgent because… Read More ›
IT’S A GIANT PLOT. THE CABAL OF CABALS.
I swear, the software developers of the world are trying to drive me crazy. In every high tech company worldwide, developers are updating, upgrading, and redesigning everything. All the functions we depended on are getting turned inside out. Between operating… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 