Many of us get so hung up living with technology in our daily lives that we get withdrawal symptoms when we're suddenly deprived of our little fairy assistants, a.k.a. mobile phones, pdas, blackberries, computers, email access.....!!!
I don't know about you but today at the office, I've been faced with Google's 'We're sorry but'.....basically, Google is defining my computer or office network as as pest, sending automated queries to them, so they are blocking us out until we fix the glitch.
After wasting much time and brain cells today running my spyware / malware removal programmes through my gazillion PC files, wondering what went wrong and still not being able to access Google, I called my daughter back home and what do you know, she's getting the cold apology from Google too!
So there. I feel alot better now. Should have called her alot earlier but then, she's probably just back from school anyway.
Maybe the issue is with the local IP servers connecting to Google. Whatever it is, I had to use Yahoo and after using Google, it's really not my favourite search engine.
I can't access my personal emails over at Gmail! I feel weird. But that's about it. Weird. My life didn't really collapse. So what if I can't access my email for a day.
Does technology really maketh a person today? How much less a person is the PC illiterate uncle and aunty next door? How much better are you as a human, knowing soooooo much about computers etc.
I'm not usually a fan of Mandarin serials but I have to say, I'm addicted to Mediacorp's current run of "Love is All Around" (Hey, these Malaysian actors are good!). Sigh. OK, TV is still technology. I just can't escape it, can I? After dinner and the TV show, I might maybe rush down to GV to catch a movie with my family. Technology again? Wow....
What started as a blog about hand painted shoes has become an online journal for a simple working mother, in search of Food for the Heart, Body, Soul and Mind.
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