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??
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