Technology
From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
I am as all mortals are,
unable to be patient.
--Pablo Neruda
So often, in our agitation and impatience, we hurry off, annoyed and troubled…
Having said I like to think of myself as a patient person, there is one thing that is guaranteed to be the exception to that rule: technology.
When technology fails, or doesn't work like it should, or makes it impossible for me to do something that I want to do, I lose patience, get frustrated and fall foul of and prey to kneejerk reactions. Which happens a lot…
I run an old computer, and when I say 'old' I think I bought it in 2003… and as such it's quite slow… it doesn't have the best system resources. So… I try to make allowances for that… to remember that I may have to wait a while for a program to open, or for connections to be made or whatever. One of the things that was really bogging it down until very recently - system hog that it is - was Norton… so when it came up for renewal last week, I started looking at other options, asking advice, and eventually settled on a new software. I kid not, since the new software is installed and Norton uninstalled, my system runs more quickly and on the whole more smoothly, (it still has a problem running SimsSocial on FB, because of issues with Flash, but… on the whole it's true). But my computer is old…
When you're talking about large companies, and particularly companies whose line of work is technology and communication - I'm sorry, but I don't think it's too much to ask to expect their computers and interfaces to work properly. 'Nuff said.
I am as all mortals are,
unable to be patient.
--Pablo Neruda
So often, in our agitation and impatience, we hurry off, annoyed and troubled…
Having said I like to think of myself as a patient person, there is one thing that is guaranteed to be the exception to that rule: technology.
When technology fails, or doesn't work like it should, or makes it impossible for me to do something that I want to do, I lose patience, get frustrated and fall foul of and prey to kneejerk reactions. Which happens a lot…
I run an old computer, and when I say 'old' I think I bought it in 2003… and as such it's quite slow… it doesn't have the best system resources. So… I try to make allowances for that… to remember that I may have to wait a while for a program to open, or for connections to be made or whatever. One of the things that was really bogging it down until very recently - system hog that it is - was Norton… so when it came up for renewal last week, I started looking at other options, asking advice, and eventually settled on a new software. I kid not, since the new software is installed and Norton uninstalled, my system runs more quickly and on the whole more smoothly, (it still has a problem running SimsSocial on FB, because of issues with Flash, but… on the whole it's true). But my computer is old…
When you're talking about large companies, and particularly companies whose line of work is technology and communication - I'm sorry, but I don't think it's too much to ask to expect their computers and interfaces to work properly. 'Nuff said.