Tag: Computers
-
Two Milestones: One Day
Milestones. Like buses, you wait for what seems like an eternity for one to arrive and two show up at once. It’s like some kind of coincidence, only with the most precise of timing and an added element of surprise thrown in for good measure. OK. Not coincidence. Just a random meeting of two events…
-
The Face in the Crystal Ball
I have an amethyst pyramid which I keep beside my computer. And beside the pyramid, I have a snowflake obsidian crystal ball. Both crystals stand out against all the technology and papers and other clutter that is around, but are always comforting. A natural energy to balance out the static electricity and artificial light from…
-
View from the window: Hidden secrets!
The view from the small window this morning is of one of the great Pyramids. I love the Pyramids, and the Sphinx of course, obviously because of their ties to way back when. It actually looks nice and warm out there, and calm, which is always a good thing. Here, temperatures are set to plummet…
-
The Superhero Diaries 2.4: Going nowhere fast
Technical hitches, it would seem, affect superheroes too. Here’s a transcript of the Satellite Navigation device in the Elite Force of Britain’s Four-Wheel Drive, used whilst the team were supposedly investigating the sudden appearance of a small island named Middlehaven, just off the coast of southern England somewhere: Good. Morning. Please. Enteryour. Destination. . Thank…
-
Technical Hitches

My on-line banking service is currently not available. Or ‘temporarily unavailable’ as they are declaring on their website. The media are having a field day, reporting widespread problems including card refusals. And here was I, a mere three hours ago, joking with the cashier in the shop that I wasn’t expecting my new card to…