For me, two of my least favorite things in the world are a visit the dentist and a call for computer technical support. In truth, I always leave the dentist office with clean teeth and no cavities. As for the tech support call, it often ends with the problem easily solved. But it’s the memory […]
Click Here to Read the Full PostI don’t think of myself as a big risk taker, although I did once jump off a cliff in Spain attached to nothing more than a parachute and a Spaniard. Let me be the first to say it: stupid, stupid, stupid. Buying a computer involves a bit of risk (but no cliff jumping) – it’s […]
Click Here to Read the Full PostAre you receiving a massive number of forwarded e-mail jokes, petitions and chain letters? I know I am. What frustrates me more than an inbox full of impersonal forwarded e-mail is when those e-mails require me to scroll down and down and down before I get to the actual content, revealing incomprehensible routing information and […]
Click Here to Read the Full PostHere is yet another confession . . . when I was 16 I bought a 1969 Triumph convertible without test driving it. After I’d bought the car I found out that my feet wouldn’t reach the pedals without a box behind me and I wasn’t even halfway home with my new car when the transmission […]
Click Here to Read the Full PostTime for a pop quiz. What is the most important thing to have beside you when using the computer? Ah, how kind of you to say my book. Good answer, but not what I was looking for. The correct answer is…a kitchen timer. It is suggested by the National Institute of Health that you take […]
Click Here to Read the Full PostI never took a class in computers or read a book to learn to tame the monster. I simply sat down at a computer and fiddled around making many mistakes along the way, but learning as I went. Most importantly, I didn’t let myself get intimidated by the technical terms that the computer savvy so […]
Click Here to Read the Full PostWhen I was seventeen I scooped a lot of ice cream working the counter at Howard Johnson’s to buy my first car. It didn’t seem to matter that the car needed vice grips to open the door or that it sounded like a 747, not a TR6, because with it I was free as a […]
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