Weekend experience.... Muppets in my Mac???

This weekend was peaceful and lonely..... Besides watching TV, DVD's and working a little, I did not experience very much.

But sometime Sanday - late evening - I was hijacked - well my computer was really the one to suffer.

Via email a masked bandit entered my email account and if I had not been quick he or she may have achieved whatever goal they had in mind.

Thank Apple Inc. for their wonderful trash can and immediate emptying - no questions asked - I was able to transfer this masked hijacker into internet oblivion!



PS: The identity of this masked bandit is obvious by that silly grin!!! Sort of reminds me of the muppets???

When operations come to a grinding halt.....

Ever hear of Murphy's Law? Well I experience everyday! But not only one thing goes wrong - lots of things go wrong!

Our workshop manager does not come to work, no one even knows where she is! She won't hand out the car papers so that we can sell that thing.

Without the manager we can't get goods shipped because she is the only one who can write and sign the invoice needed to ship the goods.

So I end up writing the invoice! Here in Germany I write an invoice for goods that need to be shipped from Jakarta to Germany. And then.... no one wants to sign the invoice. What is it with them??? Do they think they are signing off their life???

Geez...... and then: they (office and production workers) all just go home! The clock hits 5PM and they all go. No good bye or is there anything else. Gone! Do they ever stop to think that if I don't get my goods I have nothing to sell. If I have nothing to sell then I can't pay them???

No wonder some countries remain - Third World! In order for a country to develop the population needs to develop! If they always depend on others to take care of things how will they ever be independent!

Ok ... I need a coffee!

Slave of the machine.......

Sometime after 1:45 AM Central European time something went really wrong with my mail program. This morning after a slight computer freeze all my outgoing and ingoing mail had disappeared into thin(www)air! Gone!

My mail accounts - gone!

Thankfully I have been bitten by the crashing hard drive more than once in my life. So I have a back up - more than one!

Time Machine is great, but it took me the whole morning to locate the mail boxes that I had lost. I found them - saved and stored at 1:45 AM....

Now I realize that I am so dependent on this piece of machinery encased in white plastic called a computer that is scares me! And this got me thinking......!!! You buy a washing machine and if does not work.... You call the store you bought it at and raise hell! The same goes for a toaster, iron, car, phone (although I wonder about that one now too), stapler, copier..... anything!

The amount of shit we put up with when it comes to computers is amazing! And this is not the first time that I spent hours looking for solutions to a problem. A problem that a simple computer user cannot understand. Do you understand what this piece of machinery actually does? Do you know what processes (admittedly very complex and very fast) actually go in in there?

I sit here staring at the beautiful (but slightly dirty) keyboard thinking....... What does this thing do? Where is he storing all this information I feed him? What happens when information gets lost? Whole files disappear? Where did they go?

At least when you put something on a physical piece of paper and throw it out by mistake you know where to look! In the paper garbage! And if you are stuck in a streak of bad luck - you need to climb into the paper garbage head first to dig for that missing piece of paper. Thankfully we do separate our garbage here.

Can you imagine diving head first into your computer to look for something??

A little early.......

Better too early..... Good thing I thought of taking and posting these shots now!! And maybe I will just add more to decorate my web shop with Seasonal Photos....!

Most times though Christmas just whooshes past me! And I only realize on New Year's Eve that not only is there family to include in the well wishing but friends and customers too!!

This is but a start....

New camera.....

Marcus! I know you think I should have talked to you about my purchase first, but at the moment I am totally happy about my new DSLR!!!

Makes me want to cry.....!

On the way to my friends house to dog sit I was listening to the radio. There was a report about a guy that was beat up in the subway station - for no apparent reason! One guy started after asking him what he was looking at. This person - aggressive person - was joined by three others! For what???? What is society coming to????

It makes me want to cry.... be sick???

I could not believe what I heard. I tried to think of a situation in which I might want to beat someone up...... It drew a blank!

Sure I strongly dislike Ackermann and what he stands for - this guy along with many others who have lost touch with reality! But beat someone up??? Nope sorry - no one!

I would rather try to make them live off of minimum wage that is paid in a third world country! Make them eat what their minimum wage will pay! Make them "enjoy" the health care that minimum wage in third world country will pay.

But beating someone up??? No I can not think of one person, animal, insect or even electrical piece of equipment that I would want to beat up.

Ok !!! I am not an aggressive person!