Category: computer
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recharging
Dear bloggists This is a semi-quaver (quick note) to let you know that I am taking a fortnight’s blog-holiday. Feel free to peruse the archives and read some old stuff, but I am not intending to put anything new on here while I devote my time to relaxing, spending time with my family, relaxing, playing…
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waiting
I am currently very frustrated. Microsoft has kindly sent me some updates for programs on my computer. That is very thoughtful of them. However the process of updating requires a restart of my computer and it has so far taken the best part of an hour to install the updates and it has been working…
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incommunicado
Our phone line is out of action at home. I don’t know why. One minute it was working fine, the next… nothing. So if you are trying to contact us at home, sorry. It also means that our internet access is down. If you send me an email I can read it on my Blackberry…
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technology 1 human 0
I got annoyed this morning. I was at the church, setting up my laptop to work with our church projector – ready for a group of Year 1s from a local school to come and find out more about what our church is like. I had set everything up yesterday. It worked fine. Of course…
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Testing times
I will be at the Baptist Assembly in Blackpool this weekend – sans laptop. I hope that this post via email will work, in which case I will post from Blackpool via Blackberry Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media
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computer users – a parable?
Apparently there are three types of computer users: Novice user – this is someone who is terrified of pressing a key in case they break something. Intermediate user – this is someone who doesn’t know how to fix the computer after they pressed a key. Expert user – this is someone who knows how to…
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buttons (no not the panto character)
Yesterday we had our Carols by Candlelight service and despite the snow and ice we had a wonderful time, led by a choir who had been practicing since September! Beautiful. We were down at the church early to help set up and my son, Thomas, was there to run the PowerPoint. He got bored and…
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technogrumpiness
What do you do when your computer refuses to talk to the printer? This has happened to me a couple of times recently and it is rather annoying. In fact, on one occasion it was quite disabling as I was unable to print out the pages of a document I needed for a meeting. The most…
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>Blue Screen Of Death
> Yesterday our home computer decided to show us the Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD). For those of you who have Apple Computers, stop laughing. For those of you who run Windows and have never seen the BSOD – how have you avoided it? Here’s a picture of what it looks like for the uninitiated…Essentially it…
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