So, I start to write in the cloud for the
first time.
A weird feeling, before on my computers I
could always see a list of my files I'd created and known that they were there
on my hard drive. Now I am highly suspicious and harbour the thought that they
are not in the ethereal cloud.
I long for the day when the pencil and
sheet of paper will return, and pigeons were used for the sending of messages.
All
new-fangled technology frightens me. Maybe it's because I don't understand it
or perhaps because in my seventies I'm too old to learn?
I throw this last thought into the dustbin
or pray the cloud will delete it of its own accord, as I am still able to
rewire an electrical distribution board with my eyes almost closed.
So, I press on putting my thoughts into
the cloud and am elated to find the file is still there when I return to it the
following morning.
What I find hard to grasp or understand is
every time my finger hovers over the screen, particularly on my cell phone,
some unwelcome application seems to download itself and gobble up the bytes.
Is this an implanted command by Microsoft
or the creators of the millions of Applications available to the unsuspecting
public? I believe both Microsoft and the Application-creators are to blame as they
will try anything to fleece the public of its hard-earned cash!
I am inviting a computer-savvy youngster
for an hour tomorrow to find and install an Application that will prevent any
advertisements being shown anywhere on my phone and computer.
If he is successful I will immediately
inform you.
Yippee!! Tamas, my friend’s son, was
extremely helpful and successful in removing a couple of uninvited applications
and he created a desktop shortcut to “My computer” and the “control panel”. A
most useful task as I can now easily see what devices are attached to my laptop
and transfer files back and forth. Thank you Tamas.
But unfortunately, I’m still a trifle
confused.
I now have a Microsoft account, a Skype
account, a Mays pharmacy account, an Egoli Gas account, a Telkom account, all
with different rule and regulations, and maybe foolishly; I’ve given each of
them a different password. To deal with this I’ve created a “passwords” file.
Surely it would be more convenient if I had the same password for every
account. “No, no!”, scream the computer literate saying, “It will be easy to
hack into your accounts”. Sound advice, I think.
But very time consuming for my dear self!
I’ve now been thrown into a complete
quandary!
I’ve downloaded a movie making AP called “Easy
Movie Maker”. It says that it is for
beginners and is simple to use. I’m now five hours down the proverbial line and
I still can’t make head or tail of it! I’ve managed to make 3 “Projects” and
I’ve saved them, they appear in a box called “Projects!” But I can find no way
to name them!
What is more galling, is the YouTube
tutorials for the application are useless!!
Now after ten hours I returned to the FREE
application. And discovered it’s not free!! I eventually managed to save a file
and give it a name, at least I thought I had. After I clicked on “Submit”
button, I was immediately asked for thirty-five Rand, so I closed the
application down, only to discover it had not been saved. Money grabbing
Arseholes!!!
“Easy Movie Maker” uninstalled and a new
free-application downloaded called “Filmora”. I’ve open it once and again run
into difficulties so onto the Net again to find a tutorial.
The Bastards!!! “Filmora” just like the
“Easy” bunch have now asked that I pay them $36 to gain the full programme and
I have only 3 days to give them a credit card number, if I am to make use of
their SPECIAL Offer!!!
Sorry “Filmora”, I haven’t got $36!!!!
It is galling to find all these “Free”
offers on the Net only to discover a week later that they are not free!!
Surely, they are obliged to let their
possible customers know that the deal is only a trial-useage and there will be
a demand for payment in a week’s time?
“Filmora’s” deception has caused me to
postpone my attempt to find a video-producing AP and I have returned to the one
function I am able to understand, which is the writing of these blogs. But I must admit that confusion is in the
air. I have now discovered that my “word” application offers me the choice of
writing my blog as either a document or a “Blog”, and yet I can’t fathom out
the difference!
Common sense tells me that if I write it
as a “Blog” the formatting will work better when I copy and paste it into my blog-post.
However, for ten years I have written my blog as a word document and then
copied and pasted it. Apart from a few trials and tribulations, as to the size
of my font and the placing of a few photographs I seem to have succeeded.
I any of you reading this have any
suggestions on this matter, I would greatly appreciate if you could comment at
the end of reading on the blog page.
AND it is not just computers and the
internet that are dabbling in new-fangled technologies!!
Our local power utility company seems to
have entered the fray. Now instead of running their 3- phase supply on 3
separate high-wire street wires they are bungling then together into one. Alright,
this prevents falling tree branches snapping the individual phase wire but now
that all 3 insulated phases are “bungled” together it has become doubly
difficult to trace a short! The reason they offer for the innovation is, “It’s
cheaper!”
The medical fraternity is also climbing on
the band wagon with new ways to cure our ailments and in some cases, finding
new ways to diagnose them.
Recently, while watching Sky News, I learn
that using over one thousand diagnosed cancer patients, research was showing
that a diagnosis could be found using DNA, the complex building block of our
being. DNA is a thread-like chain of nucleotides the genetic
instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of
all known living organisms. Although it will still be some time before
the test is used they jubilantly announced that it would cost over three hundred
and fifty Pounds Sterling!
Yep, money certainly makes the world go
around.
But it won’t make mine, as I have always
been a man of limited means, I will rely on the wisdom of my doctor and my
memories of my grandfather who went from an agile active sixty-five-year-old
weighing over forty stone to a skeleton covered in skin in six weeks way back
in the early nineteen-sixties.
A final industry I’d like you to consider
is the automobile business. How would you feel in an Autonomous vehicle? It is
estimated that by 2020 we'll have cars capable of
being fully autonomous in certain circumstances, on highways and roads with a minimal
of variables and no bad weather.
Also think about a vehicle
that has a keyless entry and you start your car by using your finger-print or a
scan of your eyeball.
Finally give a thought to a
vehicle that constantly monitors your body keeping a track of all your vital
functions. The legendary motor company Ford, is already working on the idea of your
seatbelt or steering wheel sensors that track your vital statistics.
Yeah, it’s time we went back to the
Russian pen used in space, the pencil and my grandpa’s pidgeons to carry our
messages instead of one of these!!
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