Category Archives: TECHNOLOGY

Starting often at five am, the next hour seems to be nine in the morning.  Four hours–not one–have gone by.  This is where the anti-computerists point fingers as a loss in life time; a meaningless gap stolen from something more … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Crap.  The memory’s finally straightened out, and I’m hooking up the new hard drive as a slave so that Win 98 will acknowledge the 40-gigs when I f-disk and format it and then I can transfer all the data onto … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Okay, it’s so much better now.  Smoother, streamlined. Wait–here’s a better word.  Okay. Ehhh,  let me highlight this in red so I maybe can come up with something better later. Okay–oh yes!  I’m glad I thought of this, it really … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just seems that things can go from bad to worse in a hurry. Software problems are tougher to fix, I thought, than hardware for me, but I’m stumped. Have been trying all day to fix my dad’s old computer for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I must say that Dell is responsive and helpful, but Del somehow fixed himself with no help from either the technician or me.  Since I couldn’t see anything on the monitor and couldn’t shut the laptop off, I unplugged it, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I think Del died!  Blank screen, won’t shut off.  I’m going to go throw up. Continue reading →

"Oh I got attitude with my Latitude…" (sung to a cocky rumba beat! Don’t worry, I’ll get back off the clouds and down to serious work with it soon.  Ya’ll know my pendulum mind by now.) Continue reading →

So this is the first official entry from my new laptop.  And I screwed it up–pressed the wrong buttons and sent it out there into cyberspace with the title TECHNOLOGY spelled wrong, and a blank entry.  But I’m fixing it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

And so far, I’ve only fondled it. Continue reading →

It’s 4:30 a.m. and the UPS man hasn’t shown up yet.  I put the lights on so he doesn’t miss the house. Continue reading →

By some miracle it is already November 30th, the early morning of the day my life is brightened by the demanding freedom of a brand new laptop computer.  It is my first–laptop, that is–and I am wide awake and hopping … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just got back from my second visit to a Best Buy to finger-test the keyboard and eyeball the screens in a hands-on check of the laptops.  Of course, none of the exact models I have since focused on were there, … Continue reading → Continue reading →